everyone is entitled to them but...IMHO, medical research on animals is the way that cures are found for human ailments and surgical procedures are furthered.

If this was for medical research, how i interpreted the main part of the article - go right ahead, it is sad that animals have to be used for this purpose, if i had my way we would use certain offenders (rapists, paedophiles etc) for these types of experiments...but that is a whole other thread