Thursday, October 7, 2010

Let's End Vivisection in New Jersey

Michael Budkie, exec director of Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN) gave a brilliant presentation at the Community Church of Keyport on October 5th as part of their "Life in the Lab: Hidden Truth about Animal Experiments" speaking tour. See more on the tour: http://all-creatures.org/saen/event-eastern-tour-2010.html

Michael captivated the audience as he spoke about the types of experiments performed on animals, the funding sources, the waste, fraud, and abuse. He explained not only how vivisection harms animals, but how it translates to an incalculable cost to humans as well.

One example is how government spends about $50-60 million each year on addicting animals to drugs, which yields nothing useful to human drug addicts. Imagine how many addicts could be helped if that same $50-60 million were available to them in the form of resources, medical care, educational materials, drug rehab, etc.

Michael talked about how everyone can get more involved in this issue. You don't need to be a scientist to understand some basic principles. Human physiology is quite different from other species.

Laurie, who attend the presentation wrote the following:

"Just when you think you know what is going on behind closed doors, trust me, you do not have a clue. The amount of cruelty and neglect is incredible. Ultimately for no reason other than to make money. Michael indicated that researchers on one hand claim that non-humane primates are just like us, therefore justifying the research. Yet on the other hand they say that non-humane primates are not like us, and do not feel pain or distress, justifying the agonizing experiments. Total contradiction!!!!! After sitting and listening to this unbelievable speaker you realize that non-humane primates are just like us when it comes to pain and suffering (whether mental or physical), and yet are not like us since they do not share the same physiological makeup , therefore, rendering experiments virtually useless. So much more was discussed, and so much more must be said on this subject. If you feel as I do that this must be stopped, I am asking everyone to get involved because we can make a difference."

Laurie is right. Making the commitment to get more involved is the first step to ending these atrocities.

1. Please visit our website to learn more about the basics and how vivisection has delayed advancements in the top disease categories: http://askuswhy.com/home.htm

2. Learn more about the issues. Michael's website has a wealth of information, links, resources, reports, etc. Please visit: http://all-creatures.org/saen/

3. Read the reports online about experiments taking place near you:

4. Take information from the reports and send to the media. Here's a list of NJ media: www.usnpl.com/njnews.php

5. There is no doubt that this information is painful to read, but in addition to being upset, we urge you to take action. Protest, rally, and educate everyone else you know:
National Primate Liberation Week
(October 16th - October 24th, 2010

Please join Friends of Animals United New Jersey (http://www.faunnj.org/) and Animal Protection League of New Jersey (http://www.aplnj.org/)

When: Friday, October 22nd, 2010 (Note: It's important to leaflet when they are present.)
Time: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Where: UMDNJ Medical/Dental School, 185 S Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ 07101

**IMPORTANT PARKING UPDATE!!!!**
PLEASE DO NOT park in the PathMark parking lot on Bergen St, across from the UMDNJ! We've learned that from 8am to 4pm on weekdays, this parking lot is monitored by PathMark employees, vigilant for people parking there and then walking across to the UMDNJ. Activists parking there and walking across Bergen St to join the protest MAY BE ticketed/towed at the owner's expense!

THERE IS, however, metered and unmetered parking all along this section of Bergen St, close to where it intersects w/ S. Orange Ave. On this part of Bergen St, there is also a Rite Aid, an IHOP and a KFC, all with ample parking. From any of these locations, you'll walk about half a block up Bergen to where it intersects w/ S.Orange Ave, then turn left onto S.Orange Ave, where we'll be gathered about 1/2 a block down on the left hand side (roughly where S. Orange intersects with Bruce St - in front of the facility where the actual animal testing is done). Please check the following link for a clear overview of the local layout:

Option B for parking: There is an actual multi-level parking garage at the intersection of S. Orange and Bergen St, annexed to the UMDNJ facility itself. A HUGE sign for this parking garage at 160 Bergen St says P2 PARKING - that's it! This is more secure, obviously, than street parking, but there is a fee: $3.25 pays up to 2 hours/ $7.50 pays up to 12 hours in the parking garage. For those showing up after 4, $3.25 should be enough, since we'll be finishing at 6pm. If there are any additional questions about parking, please call (732) 693-9044 or email anthony@faunnj.org

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

LIFE IN THE LAB - Hidden Truth about Animal Experimentation

LIFE IN THE LAB - Hidden Truth about Animal Experimentation Presentation

Co-sponsored by the Animal Protection League of New Jersey (APLNJ) and Friends of Animals United NJ (FAUN).

This event is free and open to the public.

DATE: October 5, 2010
TIME: 7 PM
PLACE: Community Church of Keyport, 125 Division Street, Keyport, NJ,07733

Directions: Copy and paste the link below into your browser. The address is contained within the link, giving each person the ability to put in their own address.
http://mapq.st/h/5-A6ulME6O

EVENT:
Michael Budkie, Exec Director of SAEN - Stop Animal Exploitation Now, will be presenting the current state of animal experimentation on the national scale and at area NY labs followed by Q&A session.

Budkie's recent book, "Tear at the Jacket", blows the lab doors wide open by revealing the horrors of the daily lives of primates in laboratories across the United States. Copies of this book, SAEN t-shirts, and stainless steel water bottles will be available for purchase at the event for $15 each (cash or check only).Come out and learn more about the plight of animals in labs. Also, a great chance to network and meet new friends.

Vegan Refreshments

Sunday, September 12, 2010

'Lung-on-a-Chip' Capable of Accurately Replicating Natural Lung

A new way to test medications that could replace animal tests has been developed by researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Dr. Donald Ingber is leading scientist. To learn more, please visit: http://askuswhy.com/lungchip.htm.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Here's What's Wrong With Vivisection:
By Gary Yourofsky

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Simulposted with ADAPTT

Humanitarian and British author George Bernard Shaw summed up vivisection best when he once proclaimed, “Those who won’t hesitate to vivisect, won’t hesitate to lie about it as well.”

Vivisection is the act of cutting, drugging, burning, blinding, shocking, addicting, shooting, freezing, infecting and surgically mutilating live animals. Vivisection also happens to be more than just bloody science. It’s a bloody fraud. Every year in the US about 20 million monkeys, dogs, cats, pigs and rabbits, and nearly 50 million mice and rats are incarcerated and infected with mutations of human diseases. They are tortured in violent burn and brain-damage re-creation experiments. Then they are observed for meaningless data and killed.

First, let’s understand that animals are a completely different bio-mechanical entity than humans. The anatomical, physiological, immunological, histological [dealing with the cell structures] and even psychological differences between humans and animals are too great to overcome. At this moment, a formula for making animal-derived research relevant to human health is non-existent. Animal research has not, can not and will not save a human lives because information cannot be extrapolated from one species to another.

Let me elucidate this point to you in a few ways. Everyday in veterinary schools all across this world, the fraud of vivisection is substantiated. After talking with several veterinarians who unfortunately have been fooled into believing that animal research can be beneficial to humans, I asked them when they were in vet school studying feline leukemia which animal they studied upon. Cats, of course, they all replied. I asked them why they didn’t study on dogs for feline leukemia. They each replied that studying on dogs for feline leukemia doesn’t make scientific sense. I then asked why would we use dogs and cats and other animals for human leukemia research. Their silence exposed the scam.