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DESCRIPTION:  Demonstration for Compassion  Friday, Nov. 4 at 12:00 noon  Palo Alto  
 Intersection of El Camino and Quarryy  Map: http://tinyurl.com/b4lxt.     
 Animal Rights on the Farm (ARF!) commemorates the Dalai Lama’s visit to 
 Stanford University by urging compassion for the tens of thousands of 
 animals used in experiments on our campus. Join us for a demonstration 
 against animal testing, this Friday, November 4 at 12:00 noon at the 
 intersection of El Camino and Quarry Road (http://tinyurl.com/b4lxt).  For 
 more details, or to get involved in the campaign against vivisection, email 
 arfstanford@yahoo.com. See below for more facts on animal experiments at 
 Stanford.    “According to Buddhism the life of all beings—human, 
 animal or otherwise—is precious, and all have the same right to 
 happiness. For this reason, I find it disgraceful that animals are used 
 without being shown the slightest compassion, and that they are used for 
 scientific experiments.”  -The Dalai Lama, Beyond Dogma    
 __________________________  According to a report filed by Stanford in 2002 
 with the US Department of Agriculture (the agency charged with implementing 
 the Animal Welfare Act), Stanford used the following animals for 
 experiments: 32 dogs, 172 hamsters, 376 rabbits, 323 nonhuman primates, 110 
 sheep, 541 pigs, 2 goats, 9 ferrets and 471 gerbils (2,036 total animals).  
 Because USDA does not require reporting on mice, rats, birds, and 
 amphibians, the actual number of animals used at Stanford is much higher.  
 Nationwide, rats and mice make up approximately 95% of animals used in 
 research.  Using this statistic, we estimate that Stanford’s RAF uses as 
 many as 40,000 animals.  The Research Animal Facility at Stanford 
 University received over $146 million in federal funding in 2003 for animal 
 experimentation, ranked 21st in the country.    Animal Rights on the Farm 
 (ARF) has discovered other disturbing facts: one Stanford researcher 
 systematically deprives mice, rats, and monkeys of sleep to determine the 
 relationship between sleep deprivation, body weight, and energy expenditure 
 (Role of Hypocretin in Metabolic Effects of Sleep Loss, NIH Grant 
 #5R01MH073435-02); another separates infant primates from their mothers to 
 test the resultant psychological effects (Maternal Availability and 
 Postnatal Brain Development, NIH Grant #5F32MH066537-03); another induces 
 anxiety and fear in parasite-infested rats (Parasite/Host Interactions and 
 the Neurobiology of Fear, NIH Grant #1R21MH070903-01A1); another conducts 
 gene-therapy research on the livers of rats, rabbits, and dogs 
 (Transferring Integrase Technology to Animals, NIH Grant #5R01HL068112-05); 
 another researcher has spent the last 15 years conducting invasive brain 
 studies, maternal deprivation experiments, and stress studies in squirrel 
 monkeys (Model of Hypercortisolism for Major Depressions, NIH Grant 
 #5R01MH047573-14); another researcher induces stress in adolescent squirrel 
 monkeys primates, then addicts them to cocaine (Early Chronic Stress and 
 Prefrontal Development, NIH Grant #5R01DA016902-03); the list goes on and 
 on.    ARF has also gleaned the following information from the research 
 facility’s newsletters: the labs’ “animal caretakers” filed over 
 421 morbidity reports in 2001 (Comparative Medicine News, Jan. 2002); the 
 University maintains a colony of inbred mice, “obtained after 20 or more 
 consecutive generations of brother x sister mating” (Comparative Medicine 
 News, Dec. 1999); RAF has been infested with mites, which cause 
 self-mutilation and “blisters, crusts and warty lumps on the ears, eyes 
 and nose” (Comparative Medicine News, Apr. 2002); the facility’s 
 euthanasia procedures include CO2 gassing, followed in some cases by 
 exsanguination (bleeding to death), cervical dislocation, or decapitation, 
 and “[t]horacotomy (making an incision into the chest cavity) after 
 apparent death from CO2 is widely used as a way to ensure the 
 irreversibility of the procedure.” (Comparative Medicine News, Oct. 
 2003).        	\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/10/31/79733.php
SUMMARY:Stanford Demonstration for Compassion
LOCATION:Next to the Stanford campus at the intersection of El Camino and Quarry 
 Road in Palo Alto. Map: http://tinyurl.com/b4lxt
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/10/31/79733.php
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