Activists Protest Experimentation on Primates
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By Amy Lopez
Video by Lauren Jones
Monday, October 14, 2013 | 10:06 a.m. PDT
Stop Animal Exploitation Now! and other animal rights activists protested the use of live animals in experiments at UCLA. (ATVN/ Lauren Jones)
The rally was meant to create awareness for animals that SAEN says are wrongfully treated by researchers at UCLA.
According to SAEN, primates are forcefully injected with drugs like crystal meth and often die before the experiments are even done or if they do reach the conclusion of the study, they are killed immediately afterwards.
UCLA Animal Researchers say, "Research involving laboratory animals at UCLA is heavily monitored and subject to stringent and multiple federal laws and university regulations."
SAEN says it will not stop putting pressure on UCLA to discuss alternatives to animal experimentation.
Thank you for the coverage of this issue ASC, which is in desperate need of attention. There is a huge and growing mountain of evidence that animal experimentation does NOT help find cures at all. If you need any further evidence try googling Dr. Elias Zerhouni the ex-Director of the NIH who was recently quoted as saying, “researchers have over-relied on animal data. The problem is that it hasn’t worked, and it’s time we stopped dancing around the problem…We need to refocus and adapt new methodologies for use in humans to understand disease biology in humans.” Referring to animal experiments, he also went on to say that he and the NIH “drank the Kool-Aid on that one.”
The NIH is a major funder of animal experiments at UCLA. Trust some lackey at UCLA to try to wade in and make ridiculous comments about the protest all the while doing what UCLA experimenters do best, avoiding the actual issue. Please DO tell who at UCLA exactly is more then willing to discuss the issue because if you asked someone like Dr. Ray Greek, he will tell you otherwise. Dr. Greek has been trying to debate someone there for years but of course, the vivisectors are willing to whine about protest in the media but not willing to come to the table and discuss anything. If there were ANY kind of open dialogue allowed than perhaps UCLA wouldn’t refuse to allow access to public documentation describing their animal research protocols OR threaten faculty and students who are concerned about this issue.
Go on, surprise me lackey of UCLA - start calling everyone "terrorists" and "extremists" in your next post.