"Eric Sandgren:Cat research, after all the drama/USDA finds animal treatment violation in UW-Madison lab"

I have may thoughts on the "Eric Sandgren: Cat research, after all the drama" article. First off I would like to note that this article was written by Eric Sandgren, the head of the director of Research Animal Resources Center at UW-Madison. As I read the article I noticed a large amount of bias toward the Animal testing programs at UW-Madison. The tone of the article was a sort of "We didn't do anything wrong." It made it appear as if UW-Madison was being hopelessly attacked by PETA and that their evidence didn't back their claim. Because of all the bias I had to read carefully and dissect each sentence and fact to take a stand on the issue. I agree that PETA was too strong in their accusations that UW-Madison harms innocent Cats in their research. After an investigation by the USDA scientists came to the conclusion that UW-Madison was causing no harm to the cats. This gave me the right to say that PETA may have overstepped their boundaries. UW-Madison was conducting research for many years and had all of the practices and procedures on public record not once did PETA take a stand. Only when PETA demanded pictures of the procedures did they create a scene. I believe that PETA wanted to use those pictures as a point of their campaigning. Having pictures can be a catalyst for the public to take a stand. PETA didn't have much ground to stand up to back up the claims.

The second article, "USDA finds animal treatment violation in UW-Madison lab" was a more formal
view on the whole situation. I believe this article told a more fair tale in how Madison was cited for the injury of a cat. This article was informative and allowed myself to formulate a better stand on the issue.

My take on the situation is that the cat burning was an accident that could have been avoided. I don't believe that PETA should have attacked Madison like they did. I feel like testing is important because Madison is an innovator in cochlear implant research. I would like to see alternative options that replace animals but that could prove to be too costly.