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Pamela Anderson's stand against chimp actors

by karen dawn
DawnWatch: Pamela Anderson's stand against chimp actors in International Herald Tribune -- May 11 2005
The "People" section of the Wednesday, May 11, International Herald Tribune, includes the following:
"Pamela Anderson refused to shoot a scene with a live chimpanzee on her television show 'Stacked,' the World Entertainment News Network reported. Anderson, known for her work with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was shooting an episode about a retired scientist traumatized by memories of sending primates into outer space for NASA. Anderson was positive about the story line, but said, 'I asked them to lose the chimp. We've replaced him with a robot.'"

You'll find that piece on line at:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/10/features/peepwed.php

It provides a nice opportunity for supportive letters to the editor against the use of chimps in entertainment. The International Herald Tribune takes letters at: letters [at] iht.com Always include your full name, address, and daytime phone number when sending a letter to the editor. Shorter letters are more likely to be published.

You'll find information about the use of chimps in entertainment on the Jane Goodall website at: http://www.janegoodall.com/chimp_central/conservation/issues/in_entertainment.asp OR http://tinyurl.com/7qrhr

And there is a terrific ten minute film about chimpanzees in entertainment, featuring Jane Goodall, Roger Fouts and academy award winning writer/director Callie Khouri (she wrote 'Thelma and Louise') which you can watch on the web at: http://www.chimpcollaboratory.org/news/movie.asp Watching it is ten minutes well spent.


(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets. You can learn more about it, and sign up for alerts at http://www.DawnWatch.com. If you forward or reprint DawnWatch alerts, please do so unedited -- leave DawnWatch in the title and include this tag line.)

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by Pharmaceutical profits valued over holistic
The primates held hostage at the UCD Primate research center (Hutchinson and Road 98, Davis CA) are slaves to the profit machine of the pharmaceutical corporations..

The sign reads "UC Davis Primate Research Center" and another "School of Comparitive Medicine" indicates that testing pharmaceutical products on primates in prisons is the primary goal at UCD..

Kidnapping primates from the rainforests of Africa/Asia deprives the forests of seed dispersing mammals, reducing genetic diversity of tree species..

Not to mention the depression, aggravation, frustration experienced by the primates while in captivity will alter their health and immune system responses to experimental stimuli..

Pharmaceutical products could be honest in admitting that their products are unable to cure cancer or other diseases, their products are cytotoxic and eventually overwhelm the healthy cells along with the cancer cells..

Here are the laws of the pharmaceutical corporations from the Dr. Rath Health Foundation website;

"The Laws of the
Pharmaceutical Industry

The main principles governing the pharmaceutical “business with disease.” It is not in the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry to prevent common diseases – the maintenance and expansion of diseases is a precondition for the financial growth of this industry.
1
The pharmaceutical industry is an investment industry driven by the profits of its shareholders. Improving human health is not the driving force of this industry.

2
The pharmaceutical investment industry was artificially created and strategically developed over an entire century by the same investment groups that control the global petrochemical and chemical industries.

3
The huge profits of the pharmaceutical industry are based on the patenting of new drugs. These patents essentially allow drug manufacturers to arbitrarily define the profits for their products.

4
The marketplace for the pharmaceutical industry is the human body – but only for as long as the body hosts diseases. Thus, maintaining and expanding diseases is a precondition for the growth of the pharmaceutical industry.

5
A key strategy to accomplish this goal is the development of drugs that merely mask symptoms while avoiding the curing or elimination of diseases. This explains why most prescription drugs marketed today have no proven efficacy and merely target symptoms.

6
To further expand their pharmaceutical market, the drug companies are continuously looking for new applications (indications) for the use of drugs they already market. For example, Bayer’s pain pill Aspirin is now taken by 50 million healthy US citizens under the illusion it will prevent heart attacks.

7
Another key strategy to expand pharmaceutical markets is to cause new diseases with drugs. While merely masking symptoms short term, most of the prescription drugs taken by millions of patients today cause a multitude of new diseases as a result of their known long-term side effects. For example, all cholesterol-lowering drugs currently on the market are known to increase the risk of developing cancer – but only after the patient has been taking the drug for several years.

8
The known deadly side effects of prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in the industrialized world, surpassed only by the number of deaths from heart attacks, cancer and strokes (Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998). This fact is no surprise either, because drug patents are primarily issued for new synthetic molecules. All synthetic molecules need to be detoxified and eliminated from the body, a system that frequently fails and results in an epidemic of severe and deadly side effects.



9
While the promotion and expansion of diseases increase the market of the pharmaceutical investment industry - prevention and root cause treatment of diseases decrease long-term profitability; therefore, they are avoided or even obstructed by this industry.

10
Worst of all, the eradication of diseases is by its very nature incompatible with and diametrically opposed to the interests of the pharmaceutical investment industry. The eradication of diseases now considered as potential drug markets will destroy billions of investment dollars and eventually will eliminate this entire industry.

11
Vitamins and other effective natural health therapies that optimize cellular metabolism threaten the pharmaceutical “business with disease” because they target the cellular cause of today’s most common diseases - and these natural substances cannot be patented.

12
Throughout the more than one hundred year existence of the pharmaceutical industry, vitamins and other essential nutrients, with defined functions as cofactors in cellular metabolism, have been the fiercest competition and the greatest threat to the long-term success of the pharmaceutical investment business.

13
Vitamins and other effective natural health therapies that effectively prevent diseases are incompatible with the very nature of the pharmaceutical “business with disease.”

14
To protect the strategic development of its investment business against the threat from effective, natural and non-patentable therapies, the pharmaceutical industry has – over an entire century - used the most unscrupulous methods, such as:


(1) Withholding life-saving health information from millions of people. It is simply unacceptable that today so few know that the human body cannot produce vitamin C and lysine, two key molecules for connective tissue stability and disease prevention.


(2) Discrediting natural health therapies. The most common way is through global PR campaigns organized by the Pharma-Cartel that spread lies about the alleged side effects of natural substances – molecules that have been used by Nature for millennia.


(3) Banning by law the dissemination of information about natural health therapies. To that end, the pharmaceutical industry has placed its lobbyists in key political positions in key markets and leading drug export nations.


15
The pharmaceutical “business with disease” is the largest deception and fraud business in human history. The product “health” promised by drug companies is not delivered to millions of patients. Instead, the “products” most often delivered are the opposite: new diseases and frequently, death.

16
The survival of the pharmaceutical industry is dependent on the elimination by any means of effective natural health therapies. These natural and non-patentable therapies have become the treatment of choice for millions of people despite the combined economic, political and media opposition of the world’s largest investment industry."




Majority of human diseases are caused by either malnutrition or exposure to industrial toxins in the environment..

Prevention doesn't require expensive primate research facilities, only a greater awareness of our nutritional needs (can be met by permaculture organic farming) and response to toxic substances from industrial waste products (reduce, reuse, recycle)..

While the UC Davis primate research scientist carefully watches the baboon sitting quietly behind the cage, the baboon scratches her head slowly..

Wonders..

What R U doing??


by

Marburg monkey


Dr. Rath Health Foundation exposes the pharmaceutical hoax;
by the chimps are better actors
of course she didn't want to work with Chimps, they are better actors than she is!! Jealous she is, that's all!
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