Animal Rights This Week! (Toronto)

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Hello,

 

2 actions are taking place this week:

 

* Friday July 6, 2001 - Protest MOUSE VIVISECTORS conference

* Sunday July 8, 2001 - SHRINE CIRCUS Protest

 

Please see details below.

 

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Dear fellow activists:

 

The Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science (CALAS) conference is

taking place at the swanky Marriott Hotel at the Eaton Centre in Toronto

this weekend.

 

Their website ( http://www.calas-acsal.org/ )advertises a weekend of " fun

and festivities " including a chance to practice " procedures " on live

animals, including killing them.

 

Please join Freedom for Animals in " welcoming " these people to the

conference. If you can, bring a placard (STOP MURDERING MICE, CALAS =

CALLOUS, NO MORE ANIMAL TESTING, etc. etc.) but please COME OUT regardless

of whether you make a placard or not.

 

* Marriott Hotel at the Eaton Centre

525 Bay St. (half a block south of Dundas)

* Friday, July 6, 2001

* 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

 

Afterwards, some of us will be postering around the labs where they will be

hurting animals this weekend.

 

For more info, or to volunteer for street theatre, please phone Rosemary at

416-467-5732 or email rosemaryamey.

 

 

NEWS RELEASE

 

Animal Activists Protest Callous CALAS Conference

Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science to Celebrate

40th Anniversary in Toronto

 

From July 7 to 10, members of the Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal

Science will meet at the luxurious Toronto Mariott Hotel to celebrate 40

years of hurting animals for product testing and research.

 

Protestors from Freedom for Animals will be on hand to demand that CALAS

members STOP KILLING ANIMALS:

* Friday, July 6, 2001

* 6 - 7 p.m.

* Marriott Hotel at the Eaton Centre

* 525 Bay St. (half a block south of Dundas)

 

According to the CALAS website

( http://www.calas-acsal.org/symposium/calastoronto.html ), the symposium

attendees will be able to enjoy Toronto's fine dining and other attractions,

and also practice killing animals, and other " procedures " . These and other

workshops involving live animals will take place at the University of

Toronto (Division of Comparative Medicine and Department of Zoology), Pfizer

Canada, and the Toronto Zoo.

 

Although the symposium programme does not detail what killing methods will

be used, the following methods of rat and mouse killing are endorsed by the

so-called Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC), which oversees some animal

laboratories in Canada:

 

* crushing the animal's skull

* breaking the animal's neck

* cutting off the animal's head

* electrocution

* microwaving the animal

* grinding up the animal

* lethal injection

* gassing

 

" It's appalling that these people will be casually killing animals as part

of their 'fun and festive' weekend, " said Freedom for Animals spokesperson

Rosemary Amey. " We're here to remind CALAS members that these rats and mice

are individuals with feelings. "

 

The protestors also want to raise awareness of the fact that animals are

being harmed in research at the University of Toronto Department of Zoology

and the Toronto Zoo. " Animal researchers like to claim that their work is

medically necessary, " said Amey, " but this zoological research has no

medical benefit at all. "

 

Contacts: Rosemary Amey rosemaryamey 416-467-5732

Susan Krajnc skrajnc 416-593-9542

 

 

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THE SLAVE TRADE IS ALIVE AND KICKING

 

The SHRINE CIRCUS is in town with dogs, elephants, and a Kangaroo in tow.

Protest the use of animals in entertainment with Freedom for Animals.

 

There will be two shows taking place on Sunday July 8th: 1 pm and 5 pm and

we will be at both. *** The peaks of the protest will be from NOON-1 pm

and 4-5 pm when people are starting to show up for the show.

 

WHEN: Sunday July 8, 2001 from 12:00 - 5:00 pm

 

WHERE: Cloverdale Mall - in the parking lot

250 The East Mall (at Dundas St. in Etobicoke)

If you are taking the TTC phone 416-393-info for directions and

buses to take.

 

 

Come as yourself or dressed up in a costume as a sad clown, elephant. If

you can, bring a placard. Please avoid wearing leather to the demo.

 

For more info on the suffering of animals in the circus industry, please

visit: http://www.zoocheck.com/ or http://www.circuses.com/

 

 

 

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