March for animals
Article published: Wednesday, April 13th 2011
This coming Saturday, April 16, is World Day for Animals in Laboratories, a UN recognised day to remember the many millions of animals worldwide who suffer and die in experiments each year. The day is marked by what is usually the largest annual anti-vivisection protest in the UK. Previously the event has been held in London but this year is coming to Manchester and on Saturday, hundreds of campaigners from across the country will be coming to the city for the event. Katy Brown explains more…
Why Manchester?
The route of the march will go past Manchester University, which carries out more animal experiments than any other university in the north of England. In 2010, cat and monkey brains were destroyed, dogs were subjected to allergy tests, pigs were sliced up, rabbits were deliberately given lung infections and rats force-fed alcohol. The march will also pass Manchester Metropolitan University which by contrast is one of a growing number of universities which do not carry out experiments on animals.
The protest will also be highlighting the role played by Manchester Airport as one of the major importers of animals for experimentation. The day will highlight the plight of animals subjected to experiments in laboratories around the world and also the waste of research money and harm inflicted on humans by investing money in animal research rather than more suitable alternatives.
Growing numbers of doctors and scientists are adding their voices the campaign to abolish vivisection on the grounds that animal research does not advance medical progress but in fact inhibits it. Quite simply, using animal models, does not provide accurate results for human medical research. To illustrate with one well known example, extensive tests of the drug Vioxx, produced by US pharmaceutical company Merck, on mice, rats, rabbits and dogs indicated that the painkiller protected the heart. Yet it went on to cause between 88,000 and 160,000 heart attacks and strokes in people, making it the subject of 27,000 lawsuits in the US alone.
Those of us standing up to this absurd and cruel waste of human endeavour will descend on Manchester this Saturday to take the anti-vivisection message to the streets, following a route around the city centre, many thousands of people on a busy Saturday afternoon will be made to think a little about the hidden animal abuse going on under our noses. The march will end with a rally in Albert Square which will be followed by an indoor social event with food & drink, campaign stalls and entertainment.
At 8pm there is a punk gig and benefit to raise money to cover the costs of organising the event at The Cavendish Bar & Pub on Stretford Road, Hulme.
Meet at 12noon at Whitworth Park, Oxford Rd. The march will set off at
1.30pm.
For more information see www.wdail.org email:info@wdail.org or ring
07899 775493 or 07944 126171.
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Yeah LAB CUTS!
NOT PIGS GUTS!disgusting practices…just seen a link for PETA on if Slaughterhouses had glass walls same shit different arseholes, im all for experimenting on criminals especially those who kill and maim others with intention. Airport has responsibility in this especially when monkeys are being shipped in from god knows where just to be experimented on? We live in a “civilised” society?? we may as well be in darkest Africa!! I’ll be down there on Saturday……Well done MMU too lets get some pressure on up the road now!
Comment by Joanne Harworth on April 14, 2011 at 7:04 pm -
Just received a mobile phone message from my grandson who is in Manchester today and has seen the March for Animals go by. He attends the non-animal experimenting Manchester Metropolitan University and just like his grandma he is very much against animal experiments. He has always elected to speak out against animal experiments in debates which took place on the subject at the N.W. Grammar School he used to go to. He even wouldn’t entertain going to Oxford University because of the new animal research lab which was built there some years ago and was given Government backing from Tony Blair and the man who succeeded him Gordon Brown. I’m enormously proud of him for not being taken in by the Pro-(Animal Testing) people’s crude and unnecessary animal experimentation propoganda of the sort which students get brainwashed with at Universities that have animal research labs attached to them. He made sure when he applied to go to University that none of the ones he applied to had these scientifically backward and downright evil animal research torture chambers attached to them. It’s very uplifting to see ones like Manchester Metro University who don’t participate in this awful animal abusing hellish practice.
Comment by Norma Caton on April 16, 2011 at 4:31 pm
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