STOP BUILDING BIGGEST PRIMATE BREEDING FACILITY.

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URGENT, STOP BUILDING BIGGEST PRIMATE

BREEDING FACILITY.

 

STOP MORE CRUEL AND USELESS ANIMALS TESTS !

 

 

Dear Caring Friend ,

 

Douglas Industries Inc., a division of Schering-Plough, reportedly

hopes to make Hendry County, Florida, home to the nation's largest

primate breeding and contract research facility.

 

According to our sources, the facility would imprison between 4,000

and 5,000 macaques imported from Indonesia. Instead of increasing

the number of animals used to test its products, Schering-Plough should

take a leadership role in promoting the much-touted " 3 R's " of the

research industry-refining, reducing, and replacing the use of animals

in research.

 

To make matters worse, Schering-Plough hopes to build its primate

concentration camp in an environmentally sensitive region. Hendry

County is just north of :

 

Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Miccosukee Indian Reservation,

Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, Audubon Society Corkscrew

Swamp Sanctuary, and the Big Cypress National Preserve. Introducing

thousands of primates in need of natural resources (e.g. water, some

means of waste disposal, etc.) into such an area is asking for trouble.

 

Please let the following officials know that you are opposed to using

animals as test tubes and are concerned about the impact such a

facility will have on the natural environment. Contact information

and 3 Sample Letters to different important people appear below.

 

PLEASE, if you can , you may write your own letter or change

the order of the sample letter .

All of the contact information follows the Sample letter

is also enclosed below for your convenience. Thanks.

 

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SAMPLE LETTER : (Please address to different people

at the heading : eg: Dear Governor, Dear Mr. Cesan, Dear .... )

 

 

Dear ...... ,

 

I was very concerned to learn that Douglas Industries Inc., a

division of Schering-Plough, reportedly hopes to make Hendry

County, Florida, home to the nation's largest primate breeding

an contract research facility.

 

It is my understanding that the facility would imprison between 4,000

and 5,000 macaques imported from Indonesia. Schering-Plough

should be working towards eliminating, not increasing, the number

of animals used to test products.

 

Animal research does not work because every species of animal is

different biomechanically and biochemically. Non-human animals are

different not only from humans, but also from each other natomically,

physiologically, immunologically, genetically and histologically.

Animal research not only hurts and kills animals, it kills humans too.

For example, the drugs thalidomide, Zomax, and DES were all

tested on animals and judged safe but had devastating consequences

for the humans who used them. A General Accounting Office report,

released in May 1990, found that more than half of the prescription

drugs tested on animals and approved by the Food and Drug

Administration between 1976 and 1985 caused side effects that

were serious enough to cause the drugs to be withdrawn from the

market or relabeled.

 

Many noted physicians have spoken against vivisection. Dr. Albert

Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine, testified at a

congressional hearing: " [p]aralytic polio could be dealt with only by

preventing the irreversible destruction of the large

number of motor nerve cells, and the work on prevention was delayed

by an erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based

on misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys "

(Stoller, Kenneth, M.D., " Animal Testing: Why a Doctor Opposes It, "

The Orlando Sentinel, June 25, 1990.).

 

The National Cancer Institute in the United States also undertook

a TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR screening program, testing 40,000 plant

species on animals for anti-tumor activity. Out of this very expensive

research many positive results surfaced in animal models, but not a

single anti-tumor drug emerged for humans. As a consequence,

the NCI now uses human cancer cells for cytotoxic screening.

 

Dr. Charles Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic, stated,

" I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it

should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection,

no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained

without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil "

(Quoted by William H. Hendrix, New York Daily News,

Mar. 13, 1961).

 

There are sophisticated non-animal research methods that are

accurate, more cost-effective, and less time-consuming than animal

research. Such non-animal research methods include:

 

IN VITRO research or TEST TUBE research on living tissue.

EPIDEMIOLOGY (comparative studies from human population) .

BACTERIA, VIRUSES, AND FUNGI reveal basic cell properties.

AUTOPSY and CADAVERS .

PHYSICAL MODELS .

GENETIC RESEARCH .

CLINICAL RESEARCH .

POST - MARKETING DRUG SURVEILLANCE (PMDS).

SAFETY TESTS USING HUMAN CELLS.

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS.

MATHEMATICAL and COMPUTER MODELING .

All these Modern technology is largely responsible for

the high standard of care we receive today.

SPECIALIZATION also saves countless lives.

 

to name just a few .

 

These methods have contributed to many advancements in medicine

by providing important information about smoking and cancer,

cholesterol and heart disease, high-fat diets and common cancers,

chemical exposures and birth defects, the mechanism of transmission

of AIDS, abnormalities in the brains of victims of Alzheimer's disease,

schizophrenia, epilepsy, and autism. The AIDS virus was isolated

in human serum, and in vitro methods are providing new insights

into the virus' effect on human cells.

 

Vivisection is morally reprehensible - non-human animals are NOT

research tools. They are individuals capable of experiencing not

only crude emotions like fear, but far more subtle and complex

emotions such as love, grief, pride, shame, joy, and loneliness.

 

The cognitive psychologist, Bernard Baars stated,

" The basic facts have come home at last. We are not the only

conscious creatures on earth. " Charles Darwin's theory of natural

selection proved that human beings are in fact animals and,

as such, they evolve according to the same evolutionary dynamics

as non-human animals. Therefore, we humans have moral

obligation to treat animals with respect and dignity.

 

We strongly request Schering-Plough to take a leadership role

in promoting the much-touted " 3 R's " of the research industry-

REFINING , REDUCING, and REPLACING the use of

animals in research.

 

Please do NOT let a primate breeding and contract research

facility to be built in Florida.

 

Sincerely,

Your name,

Address,

City, State,

Country

 

P.S.: Enclosed some important references :

 

1: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine(PCRM) :

Chimpanzees Test Results That Don't Apply to Humans

http://www.pcrm.org/issues/Animal_Experimentation_Issues/chimps.html

http://www.pcrm.org

 

2: Medical Research Modernization Committee.

http://www.mrmcmed.org/

3: Americans for Medical Advancement.

http://www.curedisease.com

http://www.curedisease.com/FAQ.html

4: " Lethal Dose Tests: Unlimited Lunacy " .

http://www.peta-online.org/cmp/exp.html

 

 

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

1: CONTACT the President of Schering-Plough :

 

Call or Fax. You may send a free fax thru :

(or send a free fax thru: http://www.free2fax.com )

 

Address to : Dear Mr. Cesan,

 

Mr. Raul E. Cesan,

President & COO

Schering-Plough

1 Giralda Farms

Madison, NJ 07940-1010

USA

Tel.: 973-822-7000

Fax: 973-822-7048 (in USA )

 

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2: CONTACT :

Governor Bush in Florida :

PLEASE FAX TO GOVERNOR's OFFICE THE BEST :

 

Please address to : Dear Honorable Governor Bush,

 

Please put your name, address at the begining of the letter ,

if you send by email !

Also if you send email, please CC to

(note: need a comma between addresses.)

 

Ingrid.King , (@dep.state.fl.us )

health , (@doh.state.fl.us )

ahca , (@fdhc.state.fl.us )

DBPR.General , (@dbpr.state.fl.us )

 

 

The Honorable John Ellis " Jeb " Bush

Office of the Governor, PL 05

The Capitol

400 S. Monroe St.

Tallahassee, FL 32399

USA

Tel.: 850-488-4441

Fax: 850-487-0801 (in USA )

E-Mail:

fl_governor (@myflorida.com)

 

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3: CONTACT All of Hendry County Commissioners :

 

Please COPY the following list of addresses and

then PASTE into the BCC field in your new email.

Then put your own address in the TO field.

Type the letter and then check everything correctly,

then click " Send " :

 

Please put your name, address at the begining of

the letter , if you send by email !

 

Must have a comma between addresses.

 

Please address to : Dear Honorable Commissioner ,

or : Dear Commissioner,

 

ALL addresses end with : @hendryfla.net

 

 

jbtaylor,

drharris,

wtmaddoxjr,

commissioner,

commissioner,

 

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(Reference Source :

http://www.pcrm.org

http://www.peta-online.org

http://www.meatstinks.com )

 

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Thanks so much for your compassion, kindness and help.