"As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.",,,,,,,,,,,,Richard Gere.............."Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable ? the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all."......Henry Spira............."But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.".............Plutarch..........."The best way to help these animals is to stop supporting industries that regard animals as food machines instead of as living beings with feelings, wants, and needs................I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights, that is the way of a whole human being.............Lincoln...............The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it treats it's animals......... M Gandhi........... Animals of the world exist for their own reason. They were not made for humans, anymore than black people were made for whites or women for men..................Alice Walker................"Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on or use for entertainment.' ................ Ingrid E Newkirk [PETA]..................."We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." ................William Ralph Inge......................"Look Deep Into The Eyes Of Any Animal, & Then For A moment, Trade Places, Their Life Becomes As Precious As Yours & You Become As Vulnerable As They. Now Smile If You Believe All Animals Deserve Our Respect & Our Protection, For In Alot Of Ways, THEY ARE US, & WE ARE THEM." '.' "The Soul Is The Same In All Living Creatures, Although The Body Of Each Is Different."............................May all beings be free of suffering.................................... .s 


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THE PETITION

Oxford University has been conducting draconian experiments on primates for years.

The torture endured by these highly intelligent animals has been documented by the vivisectors themselves, as well as by several animal welfare organizations.

Now Oxford is in the midst of building a new primate torture lab.

The experiments include nerve cell and brain damage experiments that can last years: One example included nerve cell experiments in monkeys where electrodes were inserted into monkeys' brains to measure how nerve cells respond to different tastes. The scientists justify their experiments by claiming they are needed "to understand how appetite and food intake are controlled by the brain, and disorders in appetite and feeding..."

There are more reliable methods to predict the safety and effectiveness of drugs for people, as well as psychological and physiological problems, such as clinical studies, in vitro (test tube) tests using human cells and tissues and sophisticated computer simulations designed to mimic human metabolism.

Most recently, an investigation was conducted by the local police department after the University's own veterinarian complained that a monkey had been forced to endure undue suffering. An article in the news stated, "The Times has learnt that the laboratory vet wanted the animal put out of its misery, but was said to have been refused on the ground that the animal was an asset."

As is the usual course, criminal charges were not filed.

Please help put an end to the building of this new primate laboratory and speak for those who cannot. For more information, go to: www.speakcampaigns.org.uk

DESIRED OUTCOME

To halt the building of the new primate laboratory at Oxford University

WHO WE NEED TO INFLUENCE

Oxford University and the residents of Oxford

HOW LONG WILL WE CAMPAIGN

Until the end of 2005

WHO TO CONTACT

Jen at friendsofprimates@yahoo.com 

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