Amen! I call bull sh-- as well! I wonder what kind of sh-- moose is smoking. As stated before, the majority of the "ghoulish" experiments were done in the 50's, 60's, 70's etc before the ACUC were formed at research institutes. I have done extensive research with animals as well, and the amount of paperwork and approval process you need is through the roof.
Also as you said, my bosses have alays been up my ass to get the experiment done with as few animals as possible, because of the insane cost of doing animal research. No animal gets wasted, and there are no "redundant" experiments. I dont know of a sinle professor that will spend $25 per rat at the bare minimum for a "redundant" experiment.
But, like a lot of people, moose isnt going to let facts get in the way of a good rant. Its much easier to toss out big words to scare the people, like "horseradish peroxidase" and make them sound bad when they are not at all harmful. Thats much easier than thinking for yourself and actually finding out whats going on.
Someone can tell you i used to paralyze rats with sodium pentobarbital, and it sounds bad. I can tell you we used it as a general anesthetic, and the rats are up and running around within a few hours. doesnt sound as bad now does it?