Guest guest Posted March 29, 2002 Report Share Posted March 29, 2002 - " Dr John Wedderburn " <jwed <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:39 AM WORLD LABORATORY ANIMAL LIBERATION WEEK > April 20 - 28 > > Fellow Activists, > > World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week (WLALW), April 20 - 28 > is rapidly approaching and the tens of millions of animals who are currently > imprisoned in laboratories are depending upon us to keep up the fight for > their freedom. > > Every year activists across the United States come together in > solidarity with the animals and each other to re-ignite the battle for > animal liberation. This is the time when we must all come together for the > animals that suffer so severely in laboratories. > > It is absolutely vital that WLALW be a success this year. > Continuing opposition to animal experimentation must again become a high > priority for the animal protection movement. Why? > > Because a recent Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! audit of the National > Institutes of Health (NIH) CRISP system has revealed that animal > experimentation is increasing at an alarming rate. > > The NIH is currently (fiscal 2001) funding nearly 30,000 grants > that support animal based experiments. This number represents an 18.3% > increase over the last 5 years, and a 37.3% increase over the last ten > years. > The best estimate that we can devise indicates that the NIH is currently > spending well over $8 billion a year on animal experimentation. Animal > experimentation is increasing, and it is up to us to reverse this trend. > > Now, as never before, it is absolutely vital that the > laboratories that are currently torturing and killing animals be exposed. > The public must learn that millions of animals are suffering and dying with > virtually no legal protection. The legislators, whether state or federal, > that support animal experimentation must be made aware that their > constituents do not agree with their actions. > > Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! has launched a website > http://www.all-creatures.org/wlalw/index.html to support activists in the > effort to plan and coordinate events for WLALW. This website contains > photographs of animal experimentation which are currently available nowhere > else, and these photos are downloadable for your use. Another part of the > WLALW website contains informative articles about many aspects of animal > experimentation to enable activists to educate themselves as effective > spokespersons on the experimentation issue. The WLALW site also contains a > sampling of printable Fact Sheets (more will be added soon) that are also > available for use by activists. The Resources section of the website > connects you with tools for investigating laboratories in your area, as well > as links to other organizations that support World Week activities. The How > You Can Help section provides suggestions for event planning, and contact > persons for help with both media relations and investigations. > > We are currently suggesting that in addition to focusing on the > cruelty of animal experimentation we should also utilize the financial issue > that is part and parcel of animal experimentation. The ongoing process that > squanders over $8 billion in federal tax dollars on animal experimentation > every year is a scandal worthy of the most spectacular expose. Our website > contains (in The Escalating Cost of Animal Experimentation article) a list > of laboratories that receive large amounts (often over $100 million > annually) in NIH funding for animal experimentation. > > We are urging activists to organize protests at local laboratories with NIH > funded experiments. Colleges, universities, and private labs must all be > shown that the tortures, which they routinely perpetrate on animals, are > opposed by a militant and vocal movement. > > As a movement we must use WLALW to launch an effort to insure that federal > funding for animal experimentation is drastically cut. The National > Institutes of Health is currently the largest federal agency in the funding > of animal experimentation. Our goal is to make the NIH remove this funding > entirely. We will all benefit much more from drastic increases for the > funding of clinical and epidemiological research coupled with non-animal > technologies and substantial programs for the prevention of human disease. > > Whether you are assembling a protest for a laboratory near you, > a news conference to reveal the results of an investigation, or a simple > tabling event, our website can help with many aspects of your endeavor. > > Please contact us to list your WLALW event on our website so > that activists from across the nation can join in your efforts. If we can > be of any help in coordinating your WLALW event please contact us > immediately. > > Remember, you have a simple choice to make. Sitting at home > won't change anything. If you want animal experimentation to end, you must > do something about it, yourself. > > With respect for all life, > > Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T. > Executive Director, SAEN > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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