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World Week for Animals in Laboratories Bay Area Events
World Week for Animals in Laboratories Bay Area Events
Thanks to all who participated in the kick off Protest at UCSF on Saturday. Here is a listing of other events taking place in the Bay Area in honor of World Week for Animals in Laboratories and some informative links.
This week-long event (April 17-25) is internationally recognized and observed as a time to draw attention to the cruel and wasteful experiments performed on hundreds of millions of animals in the name of research. Whether pouring toxic chemicals in rabbits eyes, implanting electrodes in promotes skulls, debarking dogs, or performing painful and invasive medical procedures on otherwise healthy animals, animal research is not only cruel, it also gives misleading results and wastes funds that could be allocated to helping people through more modern and effective means or through preventive measures.
'UNEARTH' THE CRUELTY AT UC-BERKELEY LABS
When: Monday, April 19, from 12:00 - 1:30
Where: Directly above the Northwest Animal Facility, near corner of Berkeley Way and Oxford St.
Details: IDA staff, BOAA students, and other activists will 'dig up the dirt' on the animal experiments taking place at UC-Berkeley's underground Northwest Animal Facility. Activists armed with shovels will literally begin digging directly above the underground facility to expose the inhumane and unnecessary experiments that take place there. Leaflets, signs and optional shovels will be provided.
More information: livia [at] idausa.org
IAMS ‘SNARL-IN’
When: Tuesday, April 20, from 12-1
Where: Outside Safeway (an Iams retailer) at 2020 Market St. (the corner of Church and Market in San Francisco
Details: PETA is coordinating this event to raise attention to the cruel and invasive tests IAMS conducts on cats and dogs. To learn more about IAMS’ animal tests visit http://www.IamsCruelty.com. Bring your well-socialized dog to this ‘snarl-in’ to protest these inhumane tests.
More information: LisaF [at] pets.org
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL AT UCSF
When: Wednesday, April 21, from 5pm to 8pm
Where: UCSF on 513 Parnassus in San Francisco
Details: Organized by Vigil for Animals, which will provide leaflets, signs, and candles honoring the hundreds of thousands of animals subjected to cruel experiments at UCSF.
More information: vigilforanimals [at] yahoo.com
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL AT UC-BERKELEY
When: Thursday, April 22 at 7pm
Where: Outside of Northwest Animal Facility at the corner of University and Oxford, UC-Berkeley
Details: Organized by Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy, Berkeley students and other concerned citizens will honor the 40,000 animals used in UC-Berkeley Labs.
More information: calilove415 [at] hotmail.com
MARCH OF CRIMES WALK
Where: Saturday, April 24, 8:30am-10:30am
Where: The Great Meadow at Fort Mason, entrance at Bay and Franklin Sts., San Francisco
Details: The March of Dimes supports cruel animal research, and the March of Dimes Walk America is their biggest fundraiser of the year. This is a great chance to let unwitting supporters know that their donations support inhumane and unnecessary research. Visit http://www.MarchofCrimes.org to learn more about this campaign.
More information: kstoick [at] pcrm.org
For more information about the scientific and ethical opposition to animal research, and why vivisection is bad for people and animals, please contact:
In Defense of Animals
http://www.idausa.org
http://www.vivisectioninfo.org
http://www.wwail.org
Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine
http://www.pcrm.org
Americans for Medical Advancement
http://www.curedisease.com
Medical Research Modernization Committee
http://www.mrmemed.org
This week-long event (April 17-25) is internationally recognized and observed as a time to draw attention to the cruel and wasteful experiments performed on hundreds of millions of animals in the name of research. Whether pouring toxic chemicals in rabbits eyes, implanting electrodes in promotes skulls, debarking dogs, or performing painful and invasive medical procedures on otherwise healthy animals, animal research is not only cruel, it also gives misleading results and wastes funds that could be allocated to helping people through more modern and effective means or through preventive measures.
'UNEARTH' THE CRUELTY AT UC-BERKELEY LABS
When: Monday, April 19, from 12:00 - 1:30
Where: Directly above the Northwest Animal Facility, near corner of Berkeley Way and Oxford St.
Details: IDA staff, BOAA students, and other activists will 'dig up the dirt' on the animal experiments taking place at UC-Berkeley's underground Northwest Animal Facility. Activists armed with shovels will literally begin digging directly above the underground facility to expose the inhumane and unnecessary experiments that take place there. Leaflets, signs and optional shovels will be provided.
More information: livia [at] idausa.org
IAMS ‘SNARL-IN’
When: Tuesday, April 20, from 12-1
Where: Outside Safeway (an Iams retailer) at 2020 Market St. (the corner of Church and Market in San Francisco
Details: PETA is coordinating this event to raise attention to the cruel and invasive tests IAMS conducts on cats and dogs. To learn more about IAMS’ animal tests visit http://www.IamsCruelty.com. Bring your well-socialized dog to this ‘snarl-in’ to protest these inhumane tests.
More information: LisaF [at] pets.org
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL AT UCSF
When: Wednesday, April 21, from 5pm to 8pm
Where: UCSF on 513 Parnassus in San Francisco
Details: Organized by Vigil for Animals, which will provide leaflets, signs, and candles honoring the hundreds of thousands of animals subjected to cruel experiments at UCSF.
More information: vigilforanimals [at] yahoo.com
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL AT UC-BERKELEY
When: Thursday, April 22 at 7pm
Where: Outside of Northwest Animal Facility at the corner of University and Oxford, UC-Berkeley
Details: Organized by Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy, Berkeley students and other concerned citizens will honor the 40,000 animals used in UC-Berkeley Labs.
More information: calilove415 [at] hotmail.com
MARCH OF CRIMES WALK
Where: Saturday, April 24, 8:30am-10:30am
Where: The Great Meadow at Fort Mason, entrance at Bay and Franklin Sts., San Francisco
Details: The March of Dimes supports cruel animal research, and the March of Dimes Walk America is their biggest fundraiser of the year. This is a great chance to let unwitting supporters know that their donations support inhumane and unnecessary research. Visit http://www.MarchofCrimes.org to learn more about this campaign.
More information: kstoick [at] pcrm.org
For more information about the scientific and ethical opposition to animal research, and why vivisection is bad for people and animals, please contact:
In Defense of Animals
http://www.idausa.org
http://www.vivisectioninfo.org
http://www.wwail.org
Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine
http://www.pcrm.org
Americans for Medical Advancement
http://www.curedisease.com
Medical Research Modernization Committee
http://www.mrmemed.org
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California Regional Primate Research Center at UC Davis is a needless program funded by the pharmaceutical petrochemical corporations who claim locking primates in cages and injecting them with various chemicals will benefit humans. This myth needs to be exposed as an expensive scam, subjecting sentient primates with emotions to conditions of caged isolation that leads to self mutilation behavior, depression and other pathology. Primates living in research cages have been known to literally chew their fingers off from boredom and frustration..
The changes in primate's metabolism from depression, anxiety and other physical/emotional stresses renders the results of experiments meaningless, in addition, the primate's biochemistry is altered when they no longer consume their natural fruits of their rainforest home..
In the rainforest where primates should be living undisturbed by poachers and researchers, their function in the ecosystem is seed dispersal from consumed fruits. Jumping from treetops in the canopy, they help spread tree/plant seeds further distance after the seeds pass through their digestive tract. These same fruits and trees are at increased risk of extinction after depriving them of the primate seed dispersers via poaching for animal research. Ironically, many medicinal biochemical compounds of these rainforest trees/plants are the same that the pharmaceutical corporations are attempting to biopatent under globalization "intellectual property rights" supported by FTAA/WTO..
Let's get to the source of the problem, why are people becoming ill with cancer, diabetes and other conditions, the only reason that the pharmaceutical corporations have used thus far to justify animal research in the first place?
Many conditions are not genetic (though some people are more susceptible to toxins than others), as the pharmaceutical corporations falsely claim, but instead a result of exposure to toxins in the environment, usually courtesy of the petrochemical corporations like DuPont, Chevron oil refineries, also other sources like Coca-cola (high fructose corn syrup causes diabetes), combustion of fossil fuels, (smog in LA is VERY carcinogenic), and other chemical contaminants..
When health care returns to the eastern based preventative medicine, we can return to optimal human health as living naturally and sustainably with our environment, without petrochemical pollution and without subjecting primates or other animals to cruel and ineffective research experiments that only benefit the pharmaceutical corporations..
The changes in primate's metabolism from depression, anxiety and other physical/emotional stresses renders the results of experiments meaningless, in addition, the primate's biochemistry is altered when they no longer consume their natural fruits of their rainforest home..
In the rainforest where primates should be living undisturbed by poachers and researchers, their function in the ecosystem is seed dispersal from consumed fruits. Jumping from treetops in the canopy, they help spread tree/plant seeds further distance after the seeds pass through their digestive tract. These same fruits and trees are at increased risk of extinction after depriving them of the primate seed dispersers via poaching for animal research. Ironically, many medicinal biochemical compounds of these rainforest trees/plants are the same that the pharmaceutical corporations are attempting to biopatent under globalization "intellectual property rights" supported by FTAA/WTO..
Let's get to the source of the problem, why are people becoming ill with cancer, diabetes and other conditions, the only reason that the pharmaceutical corporations have used thus far to justify animal research in the first place?
Many conditions are not genetic (though some people are more susceptible to toxins than others), as the pharmaceutical corporations falsely claim, but instead a result of exposure to toxins in the environment, usually courtesy of the petrochemical corporations like DuPont, Chevron oil refineries, also other sources like Coca-cola (high fructose corn syrup causes diabetes), combustion of fossil fuels, (smog in LA is VERY carcinogenic), and other chemical contaminants..
When health care returns to the eastern based preventative medicine, we can return to optimal human health as living naturally and sustainably with our environment, without petrochemical pollution and without subjecting primates or other animals to cruel and ineffective research experiments that only benefit the pharmaceutical corporations..
For more information:
http://www.api4animals.org/1149.htm
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