Primate Freedom: The "Best Science"

Primate Freedom: The "Best Science"

Fortress Update

Recently, you were sent an alert about Fortress Investment Group who have lent
HLS $30 million since 2006 to help prop up their animal torture. With the help
of Fortress' loan over the past 3 years HLS have continued to torture and kill
about 540,000 animals.

After demonstrations in London and New York, Fortress made a false statement
saying that they not longer have a loan with HLS. Also, to try and take the
heat off them, they have colluded with HLS/LSR to create yet another front
company - River Partners of which they say have taken over the loan, this
company physically doesn't exist, it is just another shell company that
Fortress have used like in the past with BDO and Sub Anchor.

We call upon everyone near a Fortress office location to put pressure on them
and to ensure them that until they actually de-invest with HLS and actually
proof it. SHAC and the global animal rights movement will continue to target
them for the disgusting liars there are!

YOU CAN FOUND fortress ADRESSES HERE

Please let them know what you think of their dealings with HLS

Made to suffer: Exporting primates for research

Coming to an end in Nepal but all the more in China....

The mainland is quickly and quietly becoming the world's leading breeder of
primates destined for laboratory research. The country has many factory
farms devoted to the business

Thousands of tiny hands grip the cage bars. Their resemblance to those of
children is discomforting - but a similarity to humankind is the reason
their possessors are here.

Cage after cage in row after row stretch along the subtropical valley floor.
Inside sit long-tailed macaques: the favoured monkey of the vivisectionist
because they are small and easily handled. The creatures look like they know
what their future holds; wide-eyed they cower at the back of their cages,
already terrified of human contact. Mothers clutch babies in their sterile
prisons, their fate etched in code on metal discs that hang around their
necks.

The monkeys' short lives will come to an end in laboratories in Europe, the
United States and Japan; their torture the dark side of advances in science
and medicine.

When complete, at the end of the year, this monkey farm, north of Guangzhou,
will be the biggest in the world, able to house 50,000 primates. The
facility is being built in some secrecy in Conghua county by Blooming Spring
Biological Technology Development.

more at this Link:

http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=6484449c6be93210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=China&s=News#Top

Merck had a "hit list" of doctors that were targeted to be "neutralized."

Read the startling text from Merck's own internal emails here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/

UK- Dr Hadwen Trust

British charity that funds and promotes non-animal techniques to replace animal experiments. As well as rescuing animals from extreme suffering, their work benefits humans with the development of more relevant and reliable science. Better science is accomplished by using tissue samples and computer simulations in research. On September 8th 2009 experts came together in Rome for the 7th World Congress on Alternatives to animal testing. They support the "3 R's" of alternative research: replacement, reduction and refinement of animal testing. The part of the public worried about finding cures for disease needs to understand that the tormenting of the 115 million animals now in research facility cages around the world is not helping, and has never cured any disease.

For how many years now have we had the war on cancer, and on diabetes and heart disease and so on? How many fundraising runs and walks, auctions and sales? Does the money raised from these efforts simply go into torturing more mice, dogs and monkeys, while the incidence of these diseases continues to grow?


Have you ever been on a walk to raise funds for non-animal research techniques? You can do so now by joining the "virtual walk", organized to urge the European Union to update their 20 year old animal experimentation laws. Think of all that has changed in stem cell, DNA and computer imaging and simulation research in the last 20 years! No more animals need suffer (nor did they ever). To join the "march" go to: http://www.makeanimaltestinghistory.org/the-march

UCLA VIVISECTOR KILLERS

CHECK THIS ARTICLE. I HOPE THIS KILLERS WILL NOT LIVE TOO LONG. THEY ARE THE TORTURES!!!

UCLA VIVISECTOR AND KILLER : PETER GALLANT

PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE , CLICK THE TITLE

BRAIN EXPERIMENTS ON MONKEYS

Michael Budkie, the principal and driving force of Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! or SAEN! filed a complaint over what he felt was significant unwarranted redundancy of National Eye Institute-funded invasive brain experiments using monkeys

Detailed knowledge of what is happening in labs across the country is borne by relatively few activists. I doubt that there are a dozen people in the country who are as conversant with these details as Budkie; perhaps he was simply swept away by the absolute horror reflected in his data.

If you haven’t done so, look at his data. If you’ve seen it, look again.

These fifty vivisectors are responsible for a combined total of 526 years of restraining monkeys (commonly for long periods), keeping them thirsty and/or hungry, sewing coils to their eyes, drilling holes in their skulls, bolting hardware to their heads, and manipulating their brains.

No one who actually gets their head around the details Budkie points to in his data set can come away unscathed. (No human, that is; monsters might bask in this knowledge.) The suffering alluded to in the details surrounding these 526 years of experiments may be impossible to grasp. At some point, injustice and cruelty crosses a threshold that makes it impossible to describe, comprehend, or rate. Was the Holocaust worse than slavery in the Deep South? Were the Rawandan massacres worse than the Cambodian killing fields?

The real wonder is that knowledge of what is happening in the labs hasn’t led to more insistent methods of protest and resistance

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Tear At The Jacket

The Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University (MCV) is one of many laboratories that use rhesus monkeys in drug addiction experiments. One of the projects at MCV is among the oldest in the U.S. – dragging on for 30 consecutive years and currently squanders over $400,000 per year.

According to USDA reports filed by MCV, the rhesus monkeys used in this experiment suffer from unrelieved pain and distress because they often experience the throes of drug withdrawal. Yet, this is not the only agony that they endure.

Internal documents from MCV reveal that these innocent animals experience such severe stress that they often become self-abusive. Rhesus monkey M1390 endured a lifetime of suffering at MCV:

“Arrived years ago and from the beginning had difficulty adjusting to the lab. Throughout the years several attempts were made to address his behavior problems using enrichment and various experimental protocols. He would show improvement for a period but would return to bouts of stereotypic behavior including aggression and self injurious behavior. Due to recent indications that his behavior had worsened, the PI opted to remove the animal from study and request euthanasia.”
Others have less detailed descriptions. Monkey 1463 died on December 28, 2007, “nose was pressed into his face may have died from suffocation.”

These two monkeys are not the only ones that suffered at this lab, but the others have been robbed of the minimal uniqueness of a name or number. In their quest for secrecy the officials of this lab removed many details from the documents which describe the animals whose lives play out inside MCV’s cages. I can tell you what happened, and even when, but I can’t say where or to whom. The statements which are scattered through the pages of these monkeys’ lives are unidentified and so apply to either none of these primates, or to all of them. I can’t say which.

The words used to describe one primate: “cage is covered, lots of banging, chewing on Jacket. Gums bleeding. Startles very easily.” Other phrases are no less disturbing: “took too much amphetamine agitated.” The seemingly endless days of addiction experimentation roll on for one monkey: “12/1 not working well, 12/3 not working well, 12/10 plucking on arm; 12/11 plucking on arm not working well; 12/12 pump malfunctioning dripping onto monkey; 12/18 not eating; 12/19 not eating; 12/20 not eating.” And the records for another animal are no less troubling: “12/3 threw up; 12/4 agitated during drug session; 12/6 loose in cage, zipper broken 12/7 loose in cage again no IV line sedated, throwing up post sedation; 12/10 plucking tail.”

These words do not fully describe the kind of life that primates should have. There are no trees. There is no sunshine. There is no play, no companionship, no real life. These things have been replaced by addiction and suffering. Intelligent, sensitive animals have been reduced to the status of laboratory apparatus. They have been made into devices to measure the effects of addictive drugs.

How do these animals react to this insanity that we have visited upon them? How do they respond to losing everything that is natural to them? What do they do when trees, leaves, and sunshine are replaced by stainless steel, fluorescent lights, and IV catheters? Natural plant foods are replaced by monkey chow. Natural sources of water like lakes and streams are replaced by automatic watering systems. And the most unnatural aspect of this environment is the jacket that these animals are forced to wear. This device is used to protect the apparatus that delivers the addictive drugs. How do they react?

“Hair plucked from side of head . . . again plucking hair on head . . . keeping head and side of neck plucked bald.” “Banging, shaking cage, tearing at jacket. . . . Ripping jacket.” The picture that these words conjure up is an animal that is raging against the cage, fighting the pain, not giving up. This monkey is still trying to end the suffering. This animal still has hope.

Not all are so lucky. Years of confinement can break the spirit of even the strongest. When addictive drugs like amphetamines are forced upon these victims, their minds are distorted beyond a point of no return. They lose their minds, their will to fight, they lose hope. They have nothing left. The words that describe these animals are quieter, less fierce, inactive. They have surrendered.

“Holding tail and lying down. . . . Holding tail and lying down. . . . Still holding tail. . . . Lying down. . . . Lying down. . . . Lying down.” There is no hope here, no will to live, no fierceness. Life continues without living. We have taught them despair, misery, desolation and hopelessness. We have shared our mental illnesses with them. The only thing that we haven’t taught them is suicide. I suppose that we want to ensure that their suffering is inescapable.

We have visited our self-abuse on them and now they return it to us. Their psyches are so deprived, their suffering is so absolute, their minds so tortured that we have even destroyed their ability to move. “Holding tail and lying down.” They try vainly to give themselves some comfort. They hold onto the only thing available to them that is not artificial – themselves. This is abject victimhood.

Now you know. This information, these horrible words, these terrifying facts all come from one lab in Virginia. This lab is not unique. Monkeys – rhesus, squirrel monkeys and others are subjected to the throes of these and other addictive drugs at Harvard, Wake Forest, McLean Hospital, University of Michigan, on and on and on. Tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of monkeys, decades of despair.

And now we have something in common – you and I. We have a choice to make. Which monkey will you be? Either choice could be justified. Action or desolation, anger or depression, giving up or fighting back. We can either lie on the floor or we can tear at the jacket.

Knowledge has a price. The choice is not easy. These words are painful. The images that they conjure can sap your will. They can bring up rivers of tears. They can drown your soul in waves of desolation. We can become another set of victims, shipwrecked in our pain for these animals. But desolation will not empty these cages. Despair will not lead to freedom. Anguish will not result in liberty. But anger will. Tear at the jacket.

If you can only write, send letters to the people who visit this pain on these animals. You have a right to express your opinion, because your tax dollars pay for these experiments. Demand that the experiments end. Insist that the funding be directed to clinical research. If you need to do more – protest. Organize activists to take to the streets. The vivisectors that perpetrate these abuses do not enjoy seeing their names on picket signs. If you can do more, do so. Investigate labs, find the truth, and expose it. Speak up. Be a voice for the animals. Give voice to their suffering, and the pain that it brings to you.

The choice is yours. Cling to hope or give up. Fight for what is right, or allow the suffering to spread. Stand on the sidelines or take to the streets.
Lie down, or tear at the jacket.

Michael A. Budkie began his interest in animal research issues working as an Animal Health Technician (ATH) and refused to accept the practices he witnessed. Michael is the Founder and Executive Director of Stop Animal Exploitation Now! (SAEN), which focuses on animal research issues. Michael has had articles commissioned by the National Anti-Vivisection Society, the American Anti-Vivisection Society, the New England Anti-Vivisection Society, Animals Agenda Magazine, and The Animals Voice. He has also done consulting work for the New England Anti-Vivisection Society, The Humane Society of the United States, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Defeat Vivisection Funder Michael Bloomberg

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg gave 100 million dollars to Johns Hopkins for vivisection.
He switched political parties in order to win the Republican primary, as he spent $60,000
per vote. The primary was held on Sept 11, 2001! How many people voted after 9:30 AM?
William Thompson is Bloomberg's opponent.
Please spread the word.
http://www.thompson2009.com/
http://www.worldanimalnet.org