ANIMAL RIGHTS UPDATE

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URGENT, MORE ANIMAL TEST LABS TO BE BUILT.

Dear Friend ,

MEDICAL "scientists" are planning their biggest challenge to the animal rights movement by announcing the construction of three new vivisection facilities in which experiments will be conducted on hundreds of thousands of animals. (see the news report at the end of this report).

Please continue to write to UK Prime Minister.
This time, let's also send to some of the UK Health and Environmental Executives .(the list is enclosed below.)

Sample letter to both of them :
(Note: you may write your own style of letter )

Dear Prime Minister,

We are very outraged to know that UK government is funding for more Research labs to be built to torture and kill millions more of animals.

The Babraham Institute in Cambridge and the Mouse Genome Centre in Harwell, Oxfordshire, both government funded, want to build state-of-the-art facilities to create mutated mice and rats for research. The third, in Cambridge, will house primates for brain and behaviour research. The current figure of 2.7m animal experiments a year is expected to double if all three new biotechnology labs are built.

We strongly urge you

PLEASE STOP FUNDING FOR CRUEL & USELESS ANIMAL TESTS IN ALL OLD AND NEW RESEARCH LABS :


The Benchmarks in medical history have relied on the following NEW NON-ANIMAL BASED methodologies, as will future developments :

IN VITRO research or TEST TUBE research on LIVING TISSUE.
EPIDEMIOLOGY .
BACTERIA, VIRUSES, AND FUNGI reveal basic cell properties.
AUTOPSY and CADAVERS .
PHYSICAL MODELS .
GENETIC RESEARCH .
CLINICAL RESEARCH .
POST - MARKETING DRUG SURVEILLANCE (PMDS).
MATHEMATICAL and COMPUTER MODELING .
All these Modern technology is largely responsible for the high standard of care we receive today.
SPECIALIZATION also saves countless lives.


The National Cancer Institute in the United States also undertook a TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR screening program, testing 40,000 plant species on animals for anti-tumor activity. Out of this very expensive research many positive results surfaced in animal models, but not a single anti-tumor drug emerged for humans. As a consequence,the NCI now uses human cancer cells for cytotoxic screening.

As Dr. Richard Klausner, the director of the National Cancer Institute in the United States itself said :

"The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse...We have cured mice of cancer for decades--and it simply didn't work in humans. "

(please see the important References below # 1,2,3,4 ).

The Environmental Protection Agency in the United States recently is also sponsoring major research on
ALTERNATIVES test methods for toxicity to replace "animal testing".

PLEASE, instead of funding for cruel, bloody and useless animal research labs , please move the fund for all of the above most important newest NON-ANIMAL medical
research techniques. The following websites can be important references for you why Animals Reseach test is useless and a complete waste of precious public money .

We would be very grateful to you for your compassion, wisdom and help.

Sincerely Yours,
your name.
(Address or email address.)
P.S. Important References on Animal research issue:

1: http://www.curedisease.com/FAQ.html
Americans for Medical Advancement.

2: http://www.curedisease.com
Americans for Medical Advancement.

3: http://www.pcrm.org
Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine.

4: http://www.mrmcmed.org/
Medical Research Modernization Committee.

5: B: http://www.xenodiaries.org/
http://www.uncaged.co.uk

6: A : http://www.bankofnykills.com
http://www.shac.net

7 : PETA , FACTSHEET, "Lethal Dose Tests: Unlimited Lunacy".
http://www.peta-online.org/cmp/exp.html


### (end of the letter )

CONTACT INFO:

1 : Prime Minister Tony Blair :

Tel: 020 7270 3000 (@@@ Please CALL if you can.)
Address: (please send Express mail if you can).

Rt Hon Tony Blair MP,
10 Downing Street,
London SW1A 2AA
UK

Website: http://www.number-10.gov.uk

The following email addresses are NOT Prime Minister
email addresses in case if you can not send a letter or call.
please address to Prime Minister Tony Blair to make it clear.
He may or may not get your letter :
webmaster@pmo.gov.uk (pmo.gov.uk )
and also send to:
public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk (homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk)


2: The following are some of the U.K. Environmental and Health Executives Email addresses :

Please COPY the following entire list and then simply pointing your mouse to the BCC field to make a click. Then go to top bar to click Edit and click PASTE. All of addresses will then list in the BCC field. Then type any of your addresses in the TO field,Then start to type the letter. Note: it must have a comma between two addresses. We already provided it for you.

(It is very important to know how to COPY and how to PASTE.If you don't know how to do Copy and Paste , please just askany of your friends or email to us. We have detailed instructions.)

Please address to: Dear Honorable Executive,

All of the following addresses are ended with
@detr.gov.uk ,


acbe@detr.gov.uk,
air_quality@detr.gov.uk,
best_practice@detr.gov.uk,
biodiversity@detr.gov.uk,
biotech@detr.gov.uk,
bss_directive@detr.gov.uk,
ca@detr.gov.uk,
cee@detr.gov.uk,
chemicals_forum@detr.gov.uk,
chp@detr.gov.uk,
chp@detr.gov.uk,
class7@detr.gov.uk,
consumer_products@detr.gov.uk,
control_pollution@detr.gov.uk,
csd@detr.gov.uk,
cvtf@detr.gov.uk,
darwin@detr.gov.uk,
dhmail@doh.gsi.gov.uk,
dhmail@doh.gsi.gov.uk,
discharge_strategy@detr.gov.uk,
draftwaterbill_consultation@detr.gov.uk,
dwaterconsult@detr.gov.uk,
dwidoc_controller@detr.gov.uk,
ea_fmpr@detr.gov.uk,
eec@detr.gov.uk,
eec@detr.gov.uk,
energy@detr.gov.uk,
energy@detr.gov.uk,
enpsd@detr.gov.uk,
env_crime@detr.gov.uk,
envbusiness@detr.gov.uk,
epe4@detr.gov.uk,
epintdiv@detr.gov.uk,
eprg@detr.gov.uk,
eromail@doh.gsi.gov.uk,
forests@detr.gov.uk,
fuel_poverty@detr.gov.uk,
fuel_poverty@detr.gov.uk,
g8@detr.gov.uk,
ga5@detr.gov.uk,
heca@detr.gov.uk,
iff@detr.gov.uk,
iwb@detr.gov.uk,
landfilldirective_consultation@detr.gov.uk,
landquality_enquiries@detr.gov.uk,
levy_agreements@detr.gov.uk,
local_qolc@detr.gov.uk,
nhs-executive-london@doh.gov.uk,
nhse_wm_mail@doh.gsi.gov.uk,
noise@detr.gov.uk,
oecd@detr.gov.uk,
oilconsultation@detr.gov.uk,
pack@detr.gov.uk,
qolc@detr.gov.uk,
radwaste_consultation@detr.gov.uk,
ramroad@detr.gov.uk,
rimnet_enquiries@detr.gov.uk,
rmtd@detr.gov.uk,
sd-alert@detr.gov.uk,
sd_commission@detr.gov.uk,
sdudiv@detr.gov.uk,
sssis@detr.gov.uk,
statutory_guidance@detr.gov.uk,
swro_mb@doh.gsi.gov.uk,
tande@detr.gov.uk,
test_guidelines@detr.gov.uk,
ukround_table@detr.gov.uk,
unep@detr.gov.uk,
valuation_suggestions@detr.gov.uk,
waste_policy@detr.gov.uk,
waste_strategy@detr.gov.uk,
water_competition@detr.gov.uk,
wrap@detr.gov.uk ,


Thanks.
Humanity.


TODAY'S NEWS REPORT :

MORE ANIMAL TEST LABS TO BE BUILT.

Research in progress: the current figure of 2.7m animal experiments a year is expected to double if all three new biotechnology labs are built.

More animal test labs to be built

Jonathan Leake, Science Editor

MEDICAL scientists are planning their biggest challenge to the animal rights movement by announcing the construction of three new vivisection facilities in which experiments will be conducted on hundreds of thousands of animals.

The Babraham Institute in Cambridge and the Mouse Genome Centre in Harwell, Oxfordshire, both government funded, want to build state-of-the-art facilities to create mutated mice and rats for research.

The third, in Cambridge, will house primates for brain and behaviourresearch.

(See complete story , please click :
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/
Then click "More Animal Test Labs To Be Built. ".)

Question: Can you tell us how you first became interested in animal activism?
CJ: When my company started to do really well, I decided I'd like to give something back to the community. I'd always had a passion for animals and had been involved in animal rights movements in college, so it was my first thought to return to animal right issues once I'd "made it," so to speak.