AR-News: After Girton - SPEAK

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SPEAK Campaigns PRESS RELEASE: Thursday 26th February.

NEW FRONT TO OPEN UP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST VIVISECTION!

After our success against Cambridge University in stopping the proposed 
plans for Europe's largest primate centre, the SPEAC (Stop Primate 
Experiments at Cambridge) campaign has decided to open up a new front in the 
fight against vivisection.

The campaign group SPEAC has reformed itself under the title SPEAK - The 
Voice For The Animals. Our next campaign will be waged against Oxford 
University who intend to build a new £16 million animal research centre in 
South Parks Rd.

We have received information from a source well placed within Oxford 
University that for a number of months Oxford and Cambridge University have 
been in consultation with a view of transferring part of what was proposed 
to take place at Cambridge over to the centre currently under construction 
in Oxford.

The new centre will be situated next to the Experimental Psychology and 
Zoology Departments connected by a high level walkway. Both departments are 
well known for the experiments they conduct on primates and we believe that 
the 4th floor of this new centre will be used for primate research.

Plans are already in place to implement measures that will significantly 
reduce the effective working of the builders of the new centre Walter Lilly 
and their parent company, the Montpellier Group and Oxford University. These 
will be put into action by SPEAK should Oxford University fail to heed our 
calls to scrap their plans for this research centre.

Our last campaign against Cambridge University was conducted using legal 
means. We will be continue using this strategy but will now include those 
companies that are helping to build this centre. We are offering a warning 
to all those concerned either pull out of this construction or face a 
concerted campaign against both yourselves and your customers.

As part of our campaigning strategy we will be challenging the government 
and government-aided institutions. To date, the government has avoided 
significant exposure for its failure to meet its pre-election promises 
regarding their animal rights agenda, nor have they been sufficiently 
challenged for their undemocratic governing approach within a democratic 
country.

We will also be challenging the lies peddled by successive Governments and 
the vivisection industry that vivisection helps people. We will be asking 
for a public debate to be held to present expert arguments against animal 
experiments and to demonstrate that the SPEAK campaign is as much about 
saving human lives as it is about non-human lives. We aim to present the 
public with the true facts so that they can make an informed choice about 
the subject.

The centre now being built is the dream of people like Lord Sainsbury and 
Colin Blakemore, both with a vested interest in the continuation of animal 
research in this country. However the SPEAK campaign will not allow vested 
interests to dictate the future blueprint for the expansion of vivisection 
in this country and all legal means necessary will be adopted to make sure 
that the cost of building this centre will be very high indeed.

ENDS

Website: www.speakcampaigns.org.uk




Animal experiments have:
a 63% failure rate when detecting human carcinogens
a 75-95% failure rate for detecting drug side effects
a 70% failure rate for detecting drugs which cause birth defects
Success rates lower than those achieved by uneducated guesswork.

This is not science!!



Recommended website: The Absurdity of vivisection
http://vivisection-absurd.org.uk/

Information on animal research available free by EMail from 
vivisectionkills at hotmail.com

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