Friday - Join IDA Demonstration at UCSF Mission Bay Campus Celebration

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Join IDA Demonstration at Opening Celebration of UCSF's Mission Bay Campus

 

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recently paid $92,500 in

fines to avoid hearings on 89 counts of animal welfare violations the USDA

officially lodged against them. At least three primate protocols were

involved in the charges: the invasive brain experiments of Henry Ralston,

Kris Bankiewicz and Michael Merzenich. The USDA allegations included leaving

monkeys unmonitored after surgery, performing a craniotomy on a monkey

without providing post-operative pain relief, and subjecting at least one

monkey to multiple injections of a brain-destroying chemical through the

carotid artery.

 

Despite the recent public attention UCSF has earned for their serious and

ongoing animal welfare violations, officials still refuse to address or even

acknowledge the problem. They seem far more concerned with celebrating the

building of the multi-million dollar, 43-acre UCSF campus in Mission Bay,

which they will do later this week with much self-congratulatory fanfare.

 

 

 

- Join IDA as we demonstrate against the celebration of the UCSF Mission Bay

campus, where experiments on animals may soon take place, and demand

accountability for researchers' flagrant animal welfare violations.

 

What: Demonstration at UCSF against animal experimentation

When: Friday, October 28th from Noon to 1.30 p.m.

Where: UCSF's new Mission Bay campus, 1675 Owens St. (between Genentech Hall

and the Mission Bay), San Francisco (click here

<http://pub.ucsf.edu/missionbay/directions> for directions)

 

- IDA also holds weekly outreach events at UCSF's Parnassus Campus every

Wednesday from noon to at 1:00 p.m. Please help us maintain an ongoing

presence on campus to show UCSF officials that animal advocates' concerns

cannot be ignored.

 

Please contact Karen Steele at (415) 388-9641 ext. 217 or karen

to RSVP. Posters and leaflets will be provided. For more information on

UCSF's animal welfare violations, please visit

www.vivisectioninfo.org/ucsf/index.html.