Animal Testing

I am outraged that the U.S. National Toxicology Program is celebrating its 500th test on innocent creatures (Feb. 7). We human beings spend countless dollars developing toxic chemicals and then spend countless more dollars, not to mention millions of lives, testing those same chemicals.

To rejoice in the horrors of vivisection is not only heartless, it is frightening. We have come to a point where nonhuman life has no value beyond the funding that the scientists are greedily accepting in return for their premeditated torture and murder of those helpless beings. I am deeply troubled to know that my tax dollars are funding that to which I am so opposed.

LAURA FRISK

Encinitas