Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 13, 1990                   TAG: 9005140185
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: F-2   EDITION: METRO 
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IMAGINE HUMANS PUT IN ANIMALS' ROLE

I do not believe any clear-thinking person equates the life of a rabbit with the life of a child. I do not address this issue.

We force horrendous experiences upon helpless creatures. We know they cannot defend themselves; we are superior so we are free to exploit.

Davis is smug in his superiority; I ask him one question. If individuals should ever come here from another planet who were intellectually superior to us and against whom we had no defense, would he apply the same reasoning?

P. WIDNER\ WYTHEVILLE