National Primate Liberation Week
What: Michael Budkie Lecture: Life in the Lab, A Grim Look Inside U.S. Primate Laboratories
When: Wednesday, October 21st
Time: 7:00pm
Where: The Club Quarters Hotel, East & West Niantic room, 424 Clay St.(Financial District, San Francisco, California
***DEMONSTRATION***
What: UCSF Demonstration Against Animal Research
When: Thursday, October 22nd
Time: Noon-1:30pm
Where: University California, 513 Parnassus, San Francisco, California
As you read this, untold millions of animals are suffering and dying in laboratories across the United States. The majority of these animals including rats, mice, birds, amphibians, and all animals used in agricultural research receive no protection under current laws. Federally owned laboratories (such as those owned by the Department of Defense, the NIH, the USDA, EPA, etc.) receive no independent inspections. It has been demonstrated that the USDA does not adequately enforce the very limited requirements of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). Labs often break federal laws and more animals are hurt by these infractions every day. Violations are often ignored, fines are reduced or eliminated, and penalties are ineffective.
The use of non-human primates has reached an all-time high with 69,990 experiencing the cruelty of captivity in a laboratory. In university and private settings, squirrel monkeys are confined to restraint chairs and steel screws are drilled into the skulls of rhesus monkeys. Chimpanzees suffer silently for decades as they slowly go insane. Dogs languish in runs as they pine for their families. Electrical coils are forced into the eyes of cats.
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