By Brian Carnell

Tuesday, November 30, 1999

While surfing the |Z Magainze| web site a few weeks ago, I noticed that they had an Animal Rights Watch section but didn't think much of it. then today, while walking around campus, some anti-World Trade Organization activists had a booth set up and a hand out that demands the university here, "adopt guidelines for investment and shareholder activity that support responsible corporate conduct promoting ... animal rights."

I really can't understand ZNet or these students' desire to associate themselves with the animal rights movement. One of the more publicized objections to the WTO, for example, is that it prevents Third World countries from cheaply producing anti-HIV drugs. Well I hate to throw water on ZNet but if you believe that "animals' interests should be respected, and that the enslaving, eating, wearing, and torturing of animals by humans is wrong," you can't do HIV tests much less produce HIV drugs.

An HIV test finds HIV by exposing a blood sample from a human being to antibodies taken from animals. By looking for the way the antibodies bind to certain substances in the blood sample, the test reveals whether or not the patient is an HIV carrier.

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