ACT/ Demand Haven For The Lehman 6

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ACT/ Demand Haven For The Lehman 6 KINSHIP CIRCLE PRIMARY - PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST AS WRITTEN Be counted. Send a polite but clear and individualized letter. 3/30/08: Demand Haven For The Lehman 6 http://www.KinshipCircle.org Wanda (left) and Jada (right)...and the rest of the Lehman 6 -- Holly, Sophie, Samantha, Lilly

-- were sold to New York University for brain experiments, despite the wishes of the original Lehman College researcher who sought their retirement at a sanctuary. EMAIL kinshipcircle FOR WORD DOC OF A FORMATTED LETTER. Easily modify letter and copy/paste it into an email or print out to fax or mail. =========================================================== FULL CONTACT INFORMATION. Sample letter follows. =========================================================== Dr. Pierre Hohenberg New York University, Office of the Provost Bobst, 70 Washington Square South, 1213C New York, New York 10012 ph: 212-998-2415; fax: 212-995-3190 email: provost Ms. Carrie Anne Gilbert email: carrie.gilbert NYU Animal Welfare Committee UAWC Administrator, Mail Code 7311 NYU Compliance

Line: 1-877-360-7626 Chair of the UAWC: uawc.info NYU Office of Veterinary Resources New York University, Washington Square Campus Office of Veterinary Resources (OVR) ph: 212-998-7891 email: research.compliance.web NYU School Of Medicine / Division of Laboratory Animal Services (IACUC) Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee: dlar ph: 212-263-5308; fax 212-263-8235, 212-263-0727 =========================================================== EMAIL BLOCK: All emails found for this alert. =========================================================== provost, carrie.gilbert, uawc.info, research.compliance.web, dlar *Kinship Circle cannot guarantee validity of email addresses. During campaigns, recipients may change or disable their email addresses.

Emails from government or corporate websites may be incorrect. =========================================================== SAMPLE LETTER -- This letter is prepared to inform you about the issue. Try to shorten and personalize your letter before sending. =========================================================== Dr. Hohenberg, Ms. Gilbert, NYU's Animal Welfare Committee, Office of Veterinary Resources, and IACUC: I am dismayed to learn New York University bought six monkeys slated to leave Lehman College labs for a sanctuary. Wanda, Holly, Jada, Sophie, Samantha, and Lilly underwent relatively benign learning and memory experiments in the NIH-subsidized laboratory of Lehman's Dr. Karyl Swartz. At NYU, they face invasive neuroscience tests that call for implantation of electrodes into their brains. Dr. Swartz had hoped the monkeys would go

to a primary sanctuary upon conclusion of her study. She allegedly reserved $40,000 for their retirement. Please cease experiments upon these monkeys and coordinate their transfer to an accredited sanctuary. These monkeys benefited from atypical care under Dr. Swartz and her colleagues. They enjoyed group housing (instead of isolation within cages), a diverse diet, and social stimulus. Now, NYU researchers may excise the tops of their skulls to embed electrodes in their heads. Experimentation upon primates has not produced tangible data for AIDS, Alzheimer's, stroke, cancer...or nervous system dysfunction. Still, taxpayers annually subsidize redundant studies. Moreover, science derived from distressed animals does not result in predictive conclusions for human application. Lab variables such as pain, injury, confinement, loneliness and repeated handling generate misleading data. Findings

published in Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science show researchers are unable to separate the effects of stress hormones from the drug, disease or function under analysis. As research evolves to animal-free techniques that focus on human data, it becomes imperative that animals don't waste away in the system. I welcome any news about the release and humane relocation of these monkeys. Thank you, =========================================================== SOURCE OF INFORMATION / REFERENCE LINKS =========================================================== * Monkeys Scheduled for Retirement Sold to NYU for Brain Experiments http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/lehman_college Kinship Circle, a 501c3 nonprofit, is struggling

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