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Volkswagen's Experiments on Songbirds: Farfromhuman Farfromhüman -- Stop

VW's Cruel Bird Experiments!What do European robins, garden warblers, and

zebra finches have in common? They're all beautiful birds who love the

freedom of flight and their natural surroundings. They all have glorious

voices and instincts to match. And they have all been decapitated in cruel

experiments sponsored by Volkswagen.

IDA was sickened to learn that the Volkswagen Foundation is paying

experimenters at German and U.S. universities to capture and use these

beautiful songbirds in worthless experiments that terrify the birds before

they are ruthlessly killed for curiosity's sake. Although the use of any

animal for experimentation is objectionable, the thought of birds—who are

universal symbols of joy and freedom—captured, caged, terrorized, and

vivisected, is particularly heinous. Birds are indeed so fragile that they

often die of fright from the capture or transportation process.

These atrocious acts are taking place at the University of Oldenburg in

Germany and Duke University in North Carolina. Songbirds captured from the

wild and captive canaries and finches are exposed to different light cycles

or are fitted with eye caps glued tightly to their heads to block out all

light. Researchers then cut the birds' heads off to slice their retinas out

of their eyes, and dissect and study their brains for clues to the secret of

migration.

IDA has written to Volkswagen of America's new CEO, Stefen Jacoby, asking

him to assure us, for a start, that no more birds will be killed using the

company's money. Today we are kicking off a campaign starting with a

demonstration in downtown Detroit, home to the automaker's U.S. headquarters

where activists will wield a giant banner that reads " VW: Stop Killing

Birds! "

The Volkswagen Foundation has funded many other experiments on animals, and

we want Mr. Jacoby to end them all. We've asked him to start with the birds,

and from there we will work with the company to make sure that the

Volkswagen Foundation, which does many good things, stops funding all deadly

projects. The company may insist that it has nothing to do with the

Volkswagen Foundation's policies and functions but the foundation would not

have come into being in 1961 without the automaker, and revenues for the

foundation continue to accrue from returns on the VW shares held by the

State of Lower Saxony.

 

What You Can DoHelp drive Volkswagen to make the right decision. Please Take

Action <http://ga0.org/campaign/vw/wwwwu5urodx8t8w?> and send a polite

message to Stefan Jacoby, VW President and CEO asking him to use his

influence to earmark funds for research that does not entail the use of

animals.

Learn more <http://www.vivisectioninfo.org/campaigns/volkswagen/> about VW's

cruel experiments on birds.

 

 

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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our

distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were

able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

~William Ralph Inge