What is your opinion of this article?!
What is your opinion of this article?
http://abcnews.go.com/us/story?id=343773...
Answers:
The tone of the article sounded a little strange to me when I first heard about this 'study'. Today I decided to do a little (actually a lot at 19k I-net speed<G>) surfing to find the real survey and who carried it out and WHY.
Firstly, and MOST importantly her 'study' has NOT been subjected to ANY peer review!
It is NOT what the MSM news would have you believe! The SMALL study was aimed at 'finding dirt' on the New Zealand animal industry.They specifically aimed their study towards those whose primary interest was animal rights and 'cruelty-free' living. In addition there were only 47 vegans in the study (she claims 60)! She actually took information from "vegans" that like leather and fur! She has "vegans" that eat animal products!!! She also included omnivores in this study that's being touted as being about vegans! The total sample size was only 157 people.
This study is the sort of junk that would *never* pass peer-review! Her sample group is too small, too contradictory and there is NO control group sampling!
The finding that she's blathering all over the MSM about is scarcely touched upon in the actual study.
Here are links to the lead researcher:
http://www.nzchas.canterbury.ac.nz/peopl...
http://www.amst.canterbury.ac.nz/people/...
http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/...
On this blog go down to "Sheep dream come true!" and note that she appears to be an animal liberation extremist (ala ALF) and NOT an unbiased researcher.
http://www.watermaa.com/work/
Here's the link to the study itself (I'll warn you that it's a PDF):
http://www.nzchas.canterbury.ac.nz/resea...