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| June 14, 2007 Results of Hartford Courant reader's poll: Q: Should hospitals and medical schools have trainees and students operate on living animals? 35.4% Yes (217 responses) 54.0% No (331 responses) 10.6% Depends (65 responses) 613 total responses ************************************************************************************************** Friday, May 25, 2007 Hartford Courant article about recent protest of Hartford Hospital's monthly live pig trauma lab Act now!! ************************************************************************************************** 2/27/07 Press coverage from the 2/26 protest Save Mowgli at University of Mississippi Medical Center Click here to act now If you're a MS resident, click here to contact your state representatives as well ************************************************************************************************* 1/22/07 BIG NEWS!!!! Amidst scrutiny from us, the USDA and the UCHC Animal Care Committee, David Waitzman has terminated both of his monkey studies, ending all current research on nonhuman primates at the UConn Health Center. See media coverage here. ***Go here to read more about how you can help get the remaining UConn monkey liberated from his new prison at University of Mississippi Medical Center. ***Now is the time to urge UCHC to end primate research permanently--TAKE ACTION!! ************************************************************************************************* 12/3/06 Animal models fail once again!! Pfizer halts clinical drug trials as >1% of people die in study of new cholesterol drug, torcetrapid. Read NY Times story here. 11/13/06 (Ed. note 1/23/07: We have been told by the UCHC that no nonhuman primates will be used at this facility and that it, along with its primate enclosures) will be demolished before the new building is underway) As part of its new stem cell research initiative, the University of Connecticut Health Center recently entered into negotiations to purchase a 108,000 sq. ft. building in Farmington, CT that formerly housed biotechnology firm FarmTech. The building comes equipped with 60 NON-HUMAN PRIMATE CAGES. Visit our Take Action page to find out how you can contact the school and voice your opposition to current and future research on nonhuman primates. ********************** The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a decidedly unconstitutional piece of legislation that threatens our First Amendment right to free speech, passed today on the first day of the 110th Congress. To read more about it: Greenisthenewred.com |
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| Photos from a 2005 undercover investigation at contract testing firm and primate supplier. Covance Laboratories. The macaques above are used for drug testing at Covance before they are eventually sent to labs like the one at UMC and UCHC to be abused and killed. |
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non-) have an inherent value that
exists outside of their utility to
others. We recognize this value
and afford these individuals the
right to be treated in a manner
that is respectful of it. To act in
a way that reduces animals
(human and non-) to mere
resources for others to exploit
for food, experimentation,
clothing or entertainment is a
violation of this right and it is our
obligation to insure that such
exploitation does not continue.