Guest guest Posted March 10, 2000 Report Share Posted March 10, 2000 Dear Friends I don't know whether any of you has ever heard of Shamrock Farm, here in England. It is a small establishment in the heart of the Sussex countryside, near to Brighton on the south coast. Since 1954 they have been importing monkeys from such places as Mautitius, the Philippines and China. The monkeys are transported in tiny crates, often too small for them to stand up, for up to two and a half days. Once at the farm they are housed in small, inadequate cages inside Portakabins with little or no natural light. They have no access to exercise facilities or anything to stimulate their minds and they are frequently housed singly, denying them the opportunity to socalise. They are kept here for up to two months, during which time they are subjected to often painful and distressing medical tests to ascertain their state of health (a needle in the eyeball being one particularly disgusting practice), after which they are sold throughout Europe, for vivisection. Up to 300 monkeys at a time are kept in this prison. Shamrock Farm is owned by Global Health Care Partners, a unit of the New York based global investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. For many years a small group of people has battled to have Shamrock Farm closed. The campaign intensified last August when Hilgrove Farm, a similar centre for cat breeding, closed under the weight of the campaign against it. I have protested here regularly and have wept many tears for the helpless, hopeless animals inside. My mum has just telephoned me at work to say that Shamrock is closing! It's all over the television news and the campaign officials have been interviewed and have been able to put their arguments forward on the BBC. So miracles do happen. There was a protest organised for Sunday afternoon - I'm still going because I hope it will instead be a party, where those of us who usually mourn so deeply can instead rejoice together. So, as much as I would like to be at your Sunday get-together, this time I really do have something better to do! I thought you'd all like to know. Love Cathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 11, 2000 Report Share Posted March 11, 2000 thanks for the great news Cathy!!! Vikas Sharma of Operations & Media Carnival Management Web: http://www3.sympatico.ca/carnival Email: carnival Phone 416. Cathy Jupp [cathy] Friday, March 10, 2000 9:47 AM RE: Shamrock Farm Cathy Jupp <cathy Dear Friends I don't know whether any of you has ever heard of Shamrock Farm, here in England. It is a small establishment in the heart of the Sussex countryside, near to Brighton on the south coast. Since 1954 they have been importing monkeys from such places as Mautitius, the Philippines and China. The monkeys are transported in tiny crates, often too small for them to stand up, for up to two and a half days. Once at the farm they are housed in small, inadequate cages inside Portakabins with little or no natural light. They have no access to exercise facilities or anything to stimulate their minds and they are frequently housed singly, denying them the opportunity to socalise. They are kept here for up to two months, during which time they are subjected to often painful and distressing medical tests to ascertain their state of health (a needle in the eyeball being one particularly disgusting practice), after which they are sold throughout Europe, for vivisection. Up to 300 monkeys at a time are kept in this prison. Shamrock Farm is owned by Global Health Care Partners, a unit of the New York based global investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. For many years a small group of people has battled to have Shamrock Farm closed. The campaign intensified last August when Hilgrove Farm, a similar centre for cat breeding, closed under the weight of the campaign against it. I have protested here regularly and have wept many tears for the helpless, hopeless animals inside. My mum has just telephoned me at work to say that Shamrock is closing! It's all over the television news and the campaign officials have been interviewed and have been able to put their arguments forward on the BBC. So miracles do happen. There was a protest organised for Sunday afternoon - I'm still going because I hope it will instead be a party, where those of us who usually mourn so deeply can instead rejoice together. So, as much as I would like to be at your Sunday get-together, this time I really do have something better to do! I thought you'd all like to know. Love Cathy ------ GET A NEXTCARD VISA, in 30 seconds! Get rates as low as 2.9% Intro or 9.9% Fixed APR and no hidden fees. Apply NOW! http://click./1/936/2/_/651892/_/952699757/ ------ Post message: Subscribe: - Un: - List owner: -owner Shortcut URL to this page: /community/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2000 Report Share Posted March 13, 2000 Dear Vik Thanks for responding - this is a huge event in my life and it's good to be able to share it. There was a demo outside Shamrock yesterday (Sunday) which has been planned for a while and 300 of us went and turned it into a party. I've never seen so many smiling faces in one place, the joy was incredible. There are currently 200 monkeys in that hell-hole, those who are already purchased will still go for vivisection, but the rest are to go for rehoming by Interational Primate Protection and will experience sun and grass and each other for the first time in their lives as they say goodbye to cramped concrete cages and rusty iron bars. This is a MASSIVE victory for the British Animal Rights movement as Shamrock was the last primate quarantine holding centre in Britain. So now if the filthy bastard vivisectors want to cut up monkeys they will have to go to the expense of importing them and setting up a quarantine facility and waiting for 2 months to see if any of them are carrying ebola or hepatitis or anything else which would render them useless for experimentation. As all these shits care about is money, it might just prove too expensive to carry on primate experimentation. The leading light of the Save the Shamrock Monkeys campaign is a beautiful Canadian girl called Toni Vernelli - she talked to us all yesterday and told us what was happening to the monkeys and the people who worked there and how we should all be proud. She said it was the constant, unrelenting pressure on the place which finally forced it to close, that the movement is learning all the time and that the victories would come thick and fast now. Animal Liberation's time has come, she said and we all believed her. It was an incredible time. She mentioned some people who could not be with us, some of whom had died before victory came and one of whom is in hospital with a broken hip inflicted by the Sussex Police at the last demonstration (luckily the campaign has video footage of the incident, so the police will not be able to wriggle out of that one. And he was not a young thug, he was an elderly gentleman who was standing peacefully on a grass bank when he was brutalised). At this we all turned to the police who were standing outside the farm and shouted " shame on you " but surprise surprise they didn't seem at all ashamed of themselves. We're not letting up the pressure until all the monkeys are out of that place, so I shall be there again after work on Friday. We need to take as much joy from this wonderful time as we can, to see us through the bleak times which are so awful. OK, Consort beagle breeding centre's gone, Hillgrove Farm cat breeding centre is but an evil memory, Shamrock has crumbled - watch out Huntingdon Life Sciences and Newchurch Guinea Pig Farm because you are next and it won't be long! With joy, Cathy. > ---------- > Vikas Sharma[sMTP:carnival] > Reply > 11 March 2000 02:41 > > RE: RE: Shamrock Farm > > " Vikas Sharma " <carnival > > thanks for the great news Cathy!!! > > Vikas Sharma > Director of Operations & Media > Carnival Management > > Web: http://www3.sympatico.ca/carnival > Email: carnival > Phone 416. > > > > > Cathy Jupp [cathy] > Friday, March 10, 2000 9:47 AM > > RE: Shamrock Farm > > > Cathy Jupp <cathy > > Dear Friends > > I don't know whether any of you has ever heard of Shamrock Farm, here in > England. It is a small establishment in the heart of the Sussex > countryside, near to Brighton on the south coast. Since 1954 they have > been > importing monkeys from such places as Mautitius, the Philippines and > China. > The monkeys are transported in tiny crates, often too small for them to > stand up, for up to two and a half days. Once at the farm they are housed > in small, inadequate cages inside Portakabins with little or no natural > light. They have no access to exercise facilities or anything to > stimulate > their minds and they are frequently housed singly, denying them the > opportunity to socalise. They are kept here for up to two months, during > which time they are subjected to often painful and distressing medical > tests > to ascertain their state of health (a needle in the eyeball being one > particularly disgusting practice), after which they are sold throughout > Europe, for vivisection. Up to 300 monkeys at a time are kept in this > prison. Shamrock Farm is owned by Global Health Care Partners, a unit of > the New York based global investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. > > For many years a small group of people has battled to have Shamrock Farm > closed. The campaign intensified last August when Hilgrove Farm, a > similar > centre for cat breeding, closed under the weight of the campaign against > it. > I have protested here regularly and have wept many tears for the helpless, > hopeless animals inside. > > My mum has just telephoned me at work to say that Shamrock is closing! > It's > all over the television news and the campaign officials have been > interviewed and have been able to put their arguments forward on the BBC. > So miracles do happen. There was a protest organised for Sunday afternoon > - > I'm still going because I hope it will instead be a party, where those of > us > who usually mourn so deeply can instead rejoice together. So, as much as > I > would like to be at your Sunday get-together, this time I really do have > something better to do! > > I thought you'd all like to know. > > Love > Cathy > > ------ > GET A NEXTCARD VISA, in 30 seconds! Get rates as low as 2.9% > Intro or 9.9% Fixed APR and no hidden fees. Apply NOW! > http://click./1/936/2/_/651892/_/952699757/ > ------ > > > Post message: > Subscribe: - > Un: - > List owner: -owner > > Shortcut URL to this page: > /community/ > > > > ------ > GET A NEXTCARD VISA, in 30 seconds! Get rates as low as 0.0% > Intro or 9.9% Fixed APR and no hidden fees. Apply NOW! > http://click./1/937/2/_/651892/_/952742631/ > ------ > > > Post message: > Subscribe: - > Un: - > List owner: -owner > > Shortcut URL to this page: > /community/ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 14, 2000 Report Share Posted March 14, 2000 Cathy, that is so amazing. Congratulations on your victories. I wish Toronto was so productive. The most excitement we get here is Chrissie Hynde protesting at The Gap, which is great and all but what does it really do? You people are actually out there saving lives. We really need a strong motivating leader like that " beautiful Canadian girl called Toni Vernelli " Anyway, good work! -anji > Dear Vik > Thanks for responding - this is a huge event in my life and it's good to be > able to share it. There was a demo outside Shamrock yesterday (Sunday) > which has been planned for a while and 300 of us went and turned it into a > party. I've never seen so many smiling faces in one place, the joy was > incredible. There are currently 200 monkeys in that hell-hole, those who > are already purchased will still go for vivisection, but the rest are to go > for rehoming by Interational Primate Protection and will experience sun and > grass and each other for the first time in their lives as they say goodbye > to cramped concrete cages and rusty iron bars. This is a MASSIVE victory > for the British Animal Rights movement as Shamrock was the last primate > quarantine holding centre in Britain. So now if the filthy bastard > vivisectors want to cut up monkeys they will have to go to the expense of > importing them and setting up a quarantine facility and waiting for 2 months > to see if any of them are carrying ebola or hepatitis or anything else which > would render them useless for experimentation. As all these shits care > about is money, it might just prove too expensive to carry on primate > experimentation. The leading light of the Save the Shamrock Monkeys > campaign is a beautiful Canadian girl called Toni Vernelli - she talked to > us all yesterday and told us what was happening to the monkeys and the > people who worked there and how we should all be proud. She said it was the > constant, unrelenting pressure on the place which finally forced it to > close, that the movement is learning all the time and that the victories > would come thick and fast now. Animal Liberation's time has come, she said > and we all believed her. It was an incredible time. She mentioned some > people who could not be with us, some of whom had died before victory came > and one of whom is in hospital with a broken hip inflicted by the Sussex > Police at the last demonstration (luckily the campaign has video footage of > the incident, so the police will not be able to wriggle out of that one. > And he was not a young thug, he was an elderly gentleman who was standing > peacefully on a grass bank when he was brutalised). At this we all turned > to the police who were standing outside the farm and shouted " shame on you " > but surprise surprise they didn't seem at all ashamed of themselves. > > We're not letting up the pressure until all the monkeys are out of that > place, so I shall be there again after work on Friday. We need to take as > much joy from this wonderful time as we can, to see us through the bleak > times which are so awful. OK, Consort beagle breeding centre's gone, > Hillgrove Farm cat breeding centre is but an evil memory, Shamrock has > crumbled - watch out Huntingdon Life Sciences and Newchurch Guinea Pig Farm > because you are next and it won't be long! > > With joy, > Cathy. -- _____________ Free email services provided by http://www.goodkarmamail.com powered by OutBlaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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