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'World Week for Animals in Laboratories' Protest

Written by PETA

Posted 04-24-2009

"World Week for Animals in Laboratories" means demonstrations against animal testing around the world. At UCLA on Wednesday, hundreds of activists from PETA, Last Chance for Animals, In Defense of Animals, Orange County People for Animals, and Stop Animal Exploitation Now banded together and descended upon the campus to speak out for animals in laboratories.

There was no way that drivers could have missed these passionate people or PETA's posters.

These people caused quite a stir with the pro-vivisection rally happening at UCLA on the same day.

In addition to mice and rats, cats, dogs, monkeys, and many other animals experience unimaginable pain in the name of "science."

To all the folks who showed up to express their disapproval of UCLA's abuse of animals in laboratories, thank you. You guys rock our world.

Written by Karin Bennett

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Recent Comments

KD commented:

Apr 27, 2009 11:15 AM

Ok for someone like me who doesnt know what vivisection means those posters are of little help in informing me of what it is and why it is wrong. Maybe its just the bad internet quality of the picture but I cant tell what is wrong with the white monkey picture? Also this isnt necessarily the best method of protest because having lived on a college campus I know most people can give a hoot about the protesters holding signs and handing out pamphlets and trying to talk with me while I am on my way to class. They are more likely to start an argument than be informative on a college campus with that kind of protest. Plus this kind of protest would be more useful in front of restaurants or factories where this kind of stuff happens.
Denis Alexander commented:

Apr 27, 2009 9:51 AM

The success of your demonstration can easily be judged based on the fact that the number of organizations involved outnumbered the number of people that showed up. The hundreds you talk about were on the other side ProScience ProGress and AntiTerrorism which you apparently "understand"
Joseph commented:

Apr 26, 2009 9:02 PM

You know if PETA thinks that testing on animals is cruel wouldn't normal people think that testing on humans is even more cruel?
Phyllis commented:

Apr 26, 2009 7:20 PM

Derek Hope your Mom is well but the fact of the matter is that drugs tested on animals and approvied as safe for humans are responsible for killing more people than all illegal drugs put together. You your Mom and myself are endangered by animal research we are not saved by it. The results on animals are misleading and vary so much from species to species that extrapolation is purely guesswork. Post market drug surveys show we'd get better odds on detecting drug safety by flipping a coin. Check into the subject a little more and you'll probably be as surprised as I was to see how ineffective and down right dangerous animal experiments are to humans.
Gina commented:

Apr 26, 2009 4:30 PM

ONLY SELFISH HEARTLESS PEOPLE use products tested on animals.
Tricia commented:

Apr 26, 2009 2:27 PM

From what I heard from the news reports LA Times the hundreds of people came to the ProTest counter demo not to the WWAIL demo. Only about 30 people showed up there according to the papers if they're telling the truth. If this is the case I think it's because of poor planning on the part of the proanimal orgs. Having a demo during the week plays to the strengths of the university as all of its people were already there and simply had to come out of their offices and go outside. In contrast proanimal people working all over the city were obviously unable to get away from work and travel over to UCLA to participate in the space of their lunch hours. This protest should have been held on the weekend. The proanimal people would have had time to participate and the ProTest people would have had to make a special effort to attend. If we are going to win against the animal abusers it's not enough to have heart you also have to be smart.
Antoine commented:

Apr 26, 2009 2:57 AM

Brien I highly recomend that you read Animal Experimentation A harvest of Shame by Dr. Moneim A Fadali. I believe it is available for purchase from the PETA website. While I am glad that your mother has been saved you are misinformed. Often people are told that a discovery was made by animal tests but in reality the discovery was made in a much more direct practical application and then afterwards animal tests were done and the credit goes to animal tests. While it makes people feel better about marching and raising money for research to believe that the reseacrh will "save lives" the reality is that it doesn't. Doctors and Nurses save lives NOT researchers. The reality is that 1. your mother's life was saved. and 2. Researchers did studies. And these are TWO TOTALLY SEPARATE things. It is a HUGE leap to claim that the research is what saved your life. It's a bit like if I sneeze and then it starts to rain my sneeze did not CAUSE the rain. The two things are unrelated. But companies who want your support to fund ressearch are very good at making easy connections and they hope that you will not look too much into it as you obviously haven't You don't know that research saved your mother's life even less that animal tests saved her life. And realistically it didn't. Plus thee are too many variables in your claim. Which drug was killing her? why was she taking the drugs? All drugs are tested on animals so how did animal research "save her life" if it was a drug tested on animals that was harming her? Presumably if animal tests "save lives" how is it possible that this drug was killing her?
Margarita commented:

Apr 25, 2009 5:44 PM

It is hard to believe what some so called 'civilized humans' are capable of doing to an innocent and helpless animal. I think we should be relentless in our efforts to liberate these animals of further suffering.
Phyllis commented:

Apr 25, 2009 1:09 PM

Great job! Those posters are very effective wish we had them at our event in Atlamta. We had a small but dedicated group of people come out to speak for the 3000 plus animals trapped in Yerkes Regional Primate Center at Emory as well as for the nonprimate animals who are sliced and diced for government grants inside Emory University itself. I have a banner I had made that I like to take to antivivisection demos that simply says "ANIMAL RESEARCH IS NOT MEDICAL PROGRESS". While some people do care about the unmitigated suffering of animals in laboratories many only care about curing disease or developing a weight loss pill so they can eat all the cheese fries and triple bacon cheesebugers they want! When we can get their attention and talk with them it always surprises them to learn how many of the experiments at Yerkes and Emory do not advance human health and most people are staggered to learn how many millions of tax dollars fund the useless "research". Just one maternal deprivation experiment at Yerkes taking infants from their mothers and scaring them to see how much they cry received $5 million courtesy of the tax payers. Clearly animal resrarch is not medical progress it's a scam.
Derek commented:

Apr 24, 2009 11:04 PM

Some of the stuff that happens to animals in labs is heart breaking but it saved my moms life when they learned that the medication may end up killing her.

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