Guest guest Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 > " Robert Cogswell " <arkangelweb >arkangelweb >ARC Mailout(SPEAK Press Release) >Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:24:07 +0000 > >SPEAK Campaigns PRESS RELEASE: Thursday 26th February. > > >NEW FRONT TO OPEN UP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST VIVISECTION! > > >After our success against Cambridge University in stopping the proposed >plans for Europe's largest primate centre, the SPEAC (Stop Primate >Experiments at Cambridge) campaign has decided to open up a new front in >the fight against vivisection. > >The campaign group SPEAC has reformed itself under the title SPEAK - The >Voice For The Animals. Our next campaign will be waged against Oxford >University who intend to build a new £16 million animal research centre in >South Parks Rd. > >We have received information from a source well placed within Oxford >University that for a number of months Oxford and Cambridge University have >been in consultation with a view of transferring part of what was proposed >to take place at Cambridge over to the centre currently under construction >in Oxford. > >The new centre will be situated next to the Experimental Psychology and >Zoology Departments connected by a high level walkway. Both departments are >well known for the experiments they conduct on primates and we believe that >the 4th floor of this new centre will be used for primate research. > >Plans are already in place to implement measures that will significantly >reduce the effective working of the builders of the new centre Walter Lilly >and their parent company, the Montpellier Group and Oxford University. >These will be put into action by SPEAK should Oxford University fail to >heed our calls to scrap their plans for this research centre. > >Our last campaign against Cambridge University was conducted using legal >means. We will be continue using this strategy but will now include those >companies that are helping to build this centre. We are offering a warning >to all those concerned either pull out of this construction or face a >concerted campaign against both yourselves and your customers. > >As part of our campaigning strategy we will be challenging the government >and government-aided institutions. To date, the government has avoided >significant exposure for its failure to meet its pre-election promises >regarding their animal rights agenda, nor have they been sufficiently >challenged for their undemocratic governing approach within a democratic >country. > >We will also be challenging the lies peddled by successive Governments and >the vivisection industry that vivisection helps people. We will be asking >for a public debate to be held to present expert arguments against animal >experiments and to demonstrate that the SPEAK campaign is as much about >saving human lives as it is about non-human lives. We aim to present the >public with the true facts so that they can make an informed choice about >the subject. > >The centre now being built is the dream of people like Lord Sainsbury and >Colin Blakemore, both with a vested interest in the continuation of animal >research in this country. However the SPEAK campaign will not allow vested >interests to dictate the future blueprint for the expansion of vivisection >in this country and all legal means necessary will be adopted to make sure >that the cost of building this centre will be very high indeed. > >ENDS > >Website: www.speakcampaigns.org.uk > _______________ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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