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Date: Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Subject: ACT/ Stabbing Pigs To Teach Human Surgery?

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Pigs used in laboratory research. This photo is NOT from Hartford Hospital.

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Subject: ACT/ Tell NIH Animals Don’t Smoke

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LEFT: This monkey was used in an experiment in which pregnant females are injected with nicotine in order to observe its effects on their fetuses’ lungs. PETA

RIGHT: Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) experimenter Eliot Spindel has been killing infant monkeys (like Thimble, pictured here) in nicotine studies for 24 years. IDA

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From: In Defense of Animals - takeaction [at] idausa.org
Date: Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Subject: World Week for Animals in Laboratories is Here!

World Week for Animals in Laboratories is Here!

Call-In Days: Urge NIH to End Cruel Animal Experiments

Many people find this hard to believe, but the U.S. government continues to sink millions of dollars each year into funding cruel and outdated experiments on animals to test the effects of nicotine and tobacco. Please join IDA during this week’s observance of World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL) to call attention to this outrage and speak out in opposition.

IDA’s Up in Smoke campaign highlights the futility and inhumanity of nicotine experiments on newborn and pregnant animals. These are some examples:

- Since 1992, Elliot Spindel at Oregon Health and Science University delivers steady doses of nicotine to pregnant monkeys through pumps implanted into their backs. The babies are cut out of their mothers’ wombs in order to dissect their lungs.

- At Texas A&M University, Ursula Winzer-Serhan forces baby rats to consume nicotine mixed with baby formula at the equivalent of three packs of cigarettes a day. After about a week of being fed nicotine, the babies’ heads are cut off and their brains are dissected.

- Researcher Kent Pinkerton at University of California, Davis, subjects pregnant rhesus monkeys to smoking chambers where they are forced to inhale cigarette smoke for six hours each day, five days a week. When the infants are ten weeks old, they are killed by lethal injection and their lungs are dissected for analysis.

Over the past five years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has given at least $16.5 million to this category of research. This appalling figure does not reflect the total cost of all nicotine research on animals, but only that which focuses on nicotine’s effect on fetal and newborn development.

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Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Subject: ACT/ Red Tape Keeps Animals In U.S. Labs

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When you speak for animals, speak intelligently. You are all they have!
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4/15/08: Red Tape Keeps Animals In U.S. Labs
ICCVAM’s Legacy Of Inertia

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From: In Defense of Animals - takeaction [at] idausa.org
Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Subject: World Week for Animals in Laboratories

World Week for Animals in Laboratories

Make plans to get active during WWAIL: April 20 - 26

Please join IDA to make this year’s World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL), April 20 - 26, the most compelling and effective year yet in speaking out against the abhorrent use of animals in testing and research.

Although millions of animals still continue to suffer and die in laboratories, there is cause to be hopeful that real change is on the horizon.

A Landmark Agreement

In February, 2008, three U.S. government agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program (NTP), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), signed a five-year agreement to create innovative and animal-free methods to evaluate the safety of drugs and chemicals with the goal of phasing out animal tests entirely.

The NRC’s Groundbreaking Report

In July, 2007, the prestigious National Research Council (NRC) issued a report, “Toxicology for the 21st Century,” which outlines a new approach that would rely less on animal studies and focus instead upon in vitro methods. According to the report, “Over time, the need for traditional animal testing could be greatly reduced, and possibly even eliminated someday.”

Broad and sweeping changes are slowly being realized for animals in labs. Yet millions still remain captive in cages, subject to intolerable cruelty. They will not live to see the day that these changes come about, which is why we urgently need you to join forces with IDA and other animal-protection organizations to vigorously work for such a transformation to happen as soon as possible. While there is reason to celebrate, there are still far too many scientists who adhere to obsolete, imprecise, and heartless animal experiments.

Never-Ending Nicotine Experiments

It may be unfathomable, but in 2008, many animals still die in cruel, archaic, and useless nicotine experiments to tests tobacco’s deleterious effects on the body. That’s why IDA has developed our Up in Smoke campaign, which targets experiments that force pregnant and newborn animals to be pumped full of nicotine. This is just one example of the kind of horrendous animal experiments that we need to stop. Sadly, there are many such vile experiments occurring daily in laboratories.

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You know, I just started reading The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history by John Barry (2005) - in no small part because the 1918 pandemic is heavily discussed in Michael Greger’s Bird Flu, which I highly recommend - and really found it quite ironical that John Hopkins was, at the turn of the century, considered the pioneer of secular, reason-based science. Now they’re one of the last holdouts on animal testing. Innovative, not so much.

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Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Subject: ACT/ End Pig Labs At John Hopkins Medical School

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WORLD WEEK FOR ANIMALS IN LABORATORIES: April 20-26, 2008
www.WWAIL.org

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4/8/08: End Pig Labs At John Hopkins Medical School
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Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:32 PM
Subject: UPDATE/ Demand Haven For The Lehman 6

UPDATE: Victory! Reprieve for NYU Monkeys

This update is from PETA — NOT Kinship Circle:
blog.peta.org/archives/2008/03/victory_repriev.php

Kinship Circle has no further information at this time.

“After asking some pointed questions of both institutions, PETA received confirmation last week that Lehman College had thought better of their decision to sell these animals to NYU where they may have had their brains butchered. They’re now working with NYU to get them transferred to a sanctuary instead.

Last month, a whistleblower contacted PETA about six monkeys who were about to be retired to a sanctuary from City University of New York’s Lehman College — but instead were sold to New York University for invasive neurological experiments…”

blog.peta.org/archives/2008/03/victory_repriev.php

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Subject: ACT/ Demand Haven For The Lehman

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3/30/08: Demand Haven For The Lehman 6
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Wanda (left) and Jada (right)…and the rest of the Lehman 6 — Holly, Sophie, Samantha, Lilly — were sold to New York University for brain experiments, despite the wishes of the original Lehman College researcher who sought their retirement at a sanctuary.

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Subject: Part 1/ UPDATES: JAN-MAR 2008

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1. Hallmark Meat Exec Admits Downed Cows Enter Food Supply
2. Juvenile Arrested In Edna’s Disappearance Found Guilty
3. Dog Attacked With Drill Gun - Updated
4. Canada’s New Rules For “Humane Seal Hunt” (oxymoron of the year?)
5. Mississippi Legislators Snub Buddy’s Law
6. Puerto Rico Faces Suit Over Roundup/Kill of Animals
7. Official Investigation Of Puppy Killer Is Underway, Marines Say
8. In Shadow Of Vick Case, Virginia Toughens Dogfighting Laws
9. Landmark Crate Ban On Way To Nov. 2008 Calif. Ballot
10. Los Angeles: Spay-Neuter Proposal Becomes Law
11. South Africa To Resume Elephant Culling After 13 Years
12. Three U.S. Agencies Aim To End Animal Testing
13. Animals Lose A True Friend With Congressman Lantos’ Death

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14. Tammy Grimes To Appeal Unjust Sentence In Doogie Case
15. Companies Prosecuted In Poisoned Pet Food Recall
16. Report Calls For Prosecution Of Pet-Killing Dogcatcher
17. Judge To Bush Admin: You Can’t Exempt Navy In Sonar!
18. FDA OKs Food Sales From Animal Clones
19. NIH Tells UCONN Primate Experimenter To Return $65K
20. Dr. Anteneh Roba Earns Circle Of Compassion Award
21. USA: Killing Dogs In Training Of Doctors To End
22. SF Zoo Attack Victim Admits Taunting Tiger
23. Premarin Maker Wyeth Faces Over 5,300 Lawsuits
24. Denny’s Stop Sponsorship Of Ringling Bros. Circus
25. Boys Sentenced In Toby’s Brutal Death
26. The Dogs That Vick Hurt

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From: Nick Jukes
Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:22 AM
Subject: Russia - New formal agreement to replace dissections

InterNICHE – International Network for Humane Education (Russian branch)
VITA – Animal Rights Center

www.interniche.org, www.vita.org.ru

Phone: 007 495 954-92-79

TODAY TOMSK AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY SIGNS AGREEMENT TO END THE DISSECTION OF ANIMALS

Press release, 17 March 2008

On 17 March 2008 the International Network for Humane Education (InterNICHE) and the Department of Ecology, Health & Safety and Hunting Management of the Faculty of Zoology at Tomsk Agricultural Institute sign a formal agreement to end the use of animals for dissection.

According to the agreement, InterNICHE and VITA will supply the department with computer hardware and zoology software. The project will save hundreds of shrews, voles, lizards, frogs, crabs and other animals every year, as well as over forty species of insect.

Tomsk Agriculture Institute has become the sixth Russian higher education institute to sign an agreement with InterNICHE to end such use of animals in teaching.

“The computer programs demonstrating professionally performed dissections will allow students to acquire all the necessary theoretical knowledge,” said InterNICHE Co-ordinator Nick Jukes, “And students can learn practical skills by dissecting ethically sourced animal cadavers, that is, animals who died of natural causes or were euthanised for medical reasons.”

“We want to modernise our teaching and for that reason we accepted the InterNICHE and VITA proposal to introduce new, humane teaching techniques in zoology,” said Dr. Elena Kleptsyna, head of the department. “Our students will gain the skills required using methods now accepted in most western higher education institutes, where the majority experiments on animals have been replaced by humane alternatives.”

“We hope that this project will encourage respect for the lives of others – one of the professional skills so important for these future specialists,” declared Elena Maroueva, InterNICHE National Contact for Russia and VITA Director. “There is no doubt that experiments on animals can have a crippling effect on students’ emotions and could lead to a heartless attitude towards people, animals and nature.”

The project was made possible thanks to a gift from the late Director of the Centre for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, T. N. Pavlova, and donations from supporters of VITA and other organisations.

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Subject: #1/ KC DIGEST: China Cat Cull, Chico Is Gone, Kid Slays Animals

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3/11/08
PART 1: MARCH KC DIGEST - Alerts From Kinship Circle Supporters
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PART 1: MARCH KC Digest
1. Beijing Kills Cats As Clean-Up For Olympics
2. Chico Is Dead - A Victim Of Bureaucratic Ignorance
3. Stop Spanish Animal Serial Killer, Age 16
4. Ask For Full Ban On Hunting Hares With Dog Packs
5. Pennsylvania Pigeon Shoot Legislation

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6. WAR March Madness: Focus On HLS
7. UPDATES: India Cancels Dog Cull / Cats Of Cape May Spared
8. Paul Watson Shot By Japanese Whalers. Vest Saves Him.
9. Politician In Spain Outs Himself As Animal Abuser
10. Support Animal Welfare Reforms In Portugal

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From: Last Chance for Animals - campaigns [at] lcanimal.org
Date: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:56 AM
Subject: Animal Testing in the News! 2.22.08

More Kinship Circle Factsheets

According to an USA Today article released last week a new program announced by a coalition of three government agencies - the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - could lead to the end of animal testing to evaluate the safety for humans of new chemicals and drugs.

These agencies have signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” to develop and implement the new methods. Historically, toxicity has been identified by injecting chemicals into animals and seeing whether they were harmed. According to the director of the NIH’s National Genome Research Institute, Francis Collins, “It was expensive, time-consuming, used animals in large numbers, and it didn’t always work.”

The agencies acknowledge that full implementation of the shift in toxicity testing could take years because it will require scientific validation of the new approaches.

The new systems the agencies hope to use rely on human cells grown in test tubes and computer-driven testing machines. They allow the scientists to examine potentially toxic compounds in the lab rather than injecting them into animals.

All the data produced will be put into a public database.

Read USA Today article here.

Read the journal article that appeared in Science here.

Read Medicine.net article here.

Read the NIH press release here.

Last Chance for Animals, and other anti-vivisection organizations, have been fighting for the millions of animals in laboratories for over 20 years! This is great news. While we know these tests will not end the suffering of animals overnight, it is a positive step in the right direction.

For the Animals,

Campaigns Department
Last Chance for Animals

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From: Mary-Louise Clews
Date: Feb 8, 2008 5:32 AM
Subject: Support the case for ending experiments on primates in Europe

BUAV chief executive Michelle Thew today sets out the case for ending experiments on primates in Europe on the Guardian Society website. The European Commission is currently revising the rules that govern animal experiments and is considering the case for ending experiments on non-human primates.

Please show your support by visiting the site and/or leaving the supportive comment at the end of Michelle’s article. Also, please forward to people you feel will be interested and supportive. The message behind this article gains power with every person that reads it!

blogs.guardian.co.uk/joepublic/2008/02/the_time_has_come_to_stop_medi.html

Thanks for your support

Mary-Louise Clews
Media Manager

BUAV (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection)
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London N7 8NN
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Why not visit our new cruelty free website at www.gocrueltyfree.org

The BUAV Vision is: To create a world where nobody wants or believes we need to experiment on animals

Half the battle to bring an end to animal suffering is funded by gifts in our supporters’ wills. If the time is right for you to put a good cause in your will please remember ours.

The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) is a company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales as The Campaign to End All Animal Experiments (no. 04115167). Registered office address: 16a Crane Grove, London N7 8NN.

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From: Mary-Louise Clews
Date: Feb 1, 2008 10:09 AM
Subject: BUAV strikes another legal blow to Government attempts to cover-up animal experiments…

In a landmark ruling on Wednesday, the Information Tribunal paved the way for much of the secrecy surrounding animal experiments in this country to be swept away.

The Tribunal ruled that the Government’s interpretation of what information about animal experiments should be withheld as confidential was too restrictive and legally wrong. This a major victory in the BUAV’s (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) long campaign to get the Government to be more open and transparent about the animal experiments it licenses in the UK to allow proper and informed public debate

To read all about it and show your support click on the following link to a new article about the victory, hot of the press on the Guardian’s Commentisfree site:

commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michelle_thew/2008/02/nothing_to_hide.html

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1/26/08
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1. PETITIONS, WEB LETTERS, VIDEOS
2. Carriage Horse Action Needed
3. Day In Court For Dogfighter In Shreveport, Louisiana
4. Help Save Iditarod Dogs From Brutality
5. Take Action Against Rabbit Fur
6. Burning Live Dogs In Stove Furnaces In Serbia

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7. MORE PETITIONS, WEB LETTERS, VIDEOS
8. Protect Companion Animals In Final Farm Bill
9. Sea Shepherd Hostages Freed, Action Still Needed
10. Miami-Dade Commission Picks Cruelty Over Tethering Ban
11. Halt Animal Torture In Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria

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Date: Jan 25, 2008 4:57 PM
Subject: Join us for Pet Theft Awareness Day 2008!

On February 14th, LCA will observe The 20th Annual National Pet Theft Awareness Day! Each year, LCA educates the public on the dangers of pet theft with the help of individuals and other animal organizations throughout the United States.

An estimated 2 million companion animals are stolen in the United States annually. Unfortunately, most stolen pet cases go unreported, so it is almost impossible to know exact numbers of missing animals, but we do know is that pet theft is a real threat! Stolen pets are sold on the street for top dollar (especially popular breeds), shipped to puppy mills for breeding, sold to animal research labs, trained for dogfights or used as “bait” by dogfighters. It is the responsibility of caretakers to protect their pets from these horrible fates. Visit www.StolenPets.com to learn how you can protect your pet.

Do you want to get involved and spread the word about Pet Theft?

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