Sunday May 13th
UCLA, California    

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LOS ANGELES - Sunday, May 13, 2007. Mother's Day. Activists heard a
phenomenal speech by Jeremy Beckham on the many aspects of
vivisection (animal experimentation). Vivisection is both an animal
rights and a human rights issue - and must be addressed with regard
to its scientific fraudulence and immorality. Vivisection is an
archaic and brutal practice whose purpose is not to prevent or find
cures for disease. While people are dying from the same acute and
chronic conditions, vivisectors addict primates to drugs and use them
to study perfect pitch (a human ability to name musical notes in the
absence of referent frequencies). They slice open animals' skulls,
bombard their retinas with light, burn them, and tube caustic
chemicals down their throats.

They know that test results on one species cannot be extrapolated to
another. If aspirin had been tested in cats, we wouldn't have it -
because it is lethal to felids. The same is true for penicillin and
guinea pigs. Those are just two examples among many. Because of
animal experimentation, many drugs that test safe in animals go on to
kill humans. And many drugs that test unsafe in animals and which
might cure or control human illness are discarded and never marketed.

Either way, the vivisectors and universities benefit. They collect
millions in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to
torture animals and retard true progress in human medicine. They have
hoodwinked the public for years into believing that animals are good
"test models" for human illness. By selecting the appropriate
species, just about anything can be proved or disproved. But in
reality, it is proved or disproved only for that species. When the
vivisectors want grant money, they claim that the animal models in
question are a reliable indicator of how certain procedures or
pharmacological agents will work in humans. But when they are faced
with lawsuits, they "remind" the court that animal experimentation is
accurate only 5%-25% of the time. Indeed, we would obtain better odds
(50%) flipping a coin.

Even if vivisection did work, it is immoral. Torturing the members of
other species is not the way to advance human medicine. We don't
experiment on humans, even though such would obviously yield species-
relevant information. We recognize that it would be immoral. The same
holds true for members of other species - especially in this modern
age of alternatives and clinical studies.

After the presentation, activists marched around Westwood - with
police in tow - leafleting businesses about the issues. They focused
in particular on the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA),
where vivisectors are currently addicting primates to crystal meth,

paralyzing macaques for 120 hours in grotesque vision studies,
studying "bank robbery" and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) in vervets, depriving monkeys of food and water, and
subjecting additional species to other barbaric experiments.

Educating about vivisection was a good way to spend Mother's Day.
Every animal being tortured in a laboratory is either a mother or
some mother's child - as is every human who is suffering from a
disease for which there is no cure because of animal experimentation.