Events
Please visit the Animal Rights Calendar compiled by Veggies for an extensive list of events taking place around the country
Highgate Rabbit and Ferret Farm
Posted 06/03/10
Every year in the UK almost 30, 000 rabbits suffer and die in vivisection laboratories. More than 65% of these experiments involve NO anaesthetic. Rabbits are particularly used in the notorious Draize eye test (to record corrosive damage to the eye over several days, usually with no pain relief), and the skin irritancy test (where rabbits are partially shaved and have substances such as insecticides and drain cleaner applied and the effects observed over 1-2 weeks, usually with no pain relief).
Following the rescue of 129 rabbits from Highgate Farm, Lincs in 2008, the farm subsequently stopped supplying rabbits for animal testing. However, after instruction from the police and pressure from the industry the farm reluctantly resumed supplying rabbits to laboratories, one of which is Europe's biggest and most exposed lab, Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).
Demos most weeks outside farm, our group goes every other week at the moment. If anyone is interested on going on these pickets email kj001f8644@blueyonder.co.uk and I will pass onto the person sorting transport. National demo there Sat 3rd April, Easter bunny theme, let me know if you want to go.
The Grand National: You bet, they die
Posted 06/03/10
The Grand National is staged at Aintree during the first week of April. The big race is the climax of a three-day meeting that as cost the lives of 30 horses between 1999 and 2009. Many people, who wouldn’t normally bet on horseracing, have a ‘harmless flutter’ on the Grand National. But there is nothing harmless about a race that routinely inflicts serious injury
and death upon the horses who take part.
The Grand National is a deliberately punishing and hazardous event: longer than any other (four and a half miles) and presenting 30 uniquely high and awkward obstacles. It features perilous drops, ditches and sharp turns. Many of the horses
will have encountered nothing like it before. Forty usually take part. This is an excessively crowded field, which adds to the risk of collisions and falls. Only one third are likely to finish.
Merseyside Animal Rights we be raising awareness of racegoers to the cruelty which lies at the heart of the horse racing industry on the day of the Grand National Sat 10th April. We will meet up outside Aintree Station at 11.00am.
NATIONAL MARCH & RALLY AGAINST BRADFORD UNIVERSITY
Posted 07/02/2010
Saturday 13th February 2010
Meeting 12noon at Centenary Square, Queensbury, Bradford, BD1 9ST
On Saturday 13th February 2010, campaigners from across the country will be decending on Bradford so as to call for the university to end all animal experiments.
A rally, stalls and speeches are being held in Centenary Square (next to the Town Hall) before marching through Bradford town centre and up to the university laboratories.
The University of Bradford have been exposed for horrific animal abuse inside their laboratories, such as purposely starving animals to make them perform procedures, conducting drug addiction experiments on nursing animals and cutting them open with scalpels to see the effects of scarring. All experiments happening could be replaced with non-animal methods.
Please join us on this important day and speak up for the closure of Bradford's animal torture laboratory.
Veggies Catering will be providing vegan food, drinks and refreshments on the day.
SPEAKERS:
Luke Steele -
Spokesperson for the Stop Animal Experiments at Bradford (SAEAB) campaign.
Debbie Vincent -
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty have brought one of the world's largest animal laboratories, HLS, to its knees and on the brink of closure through grassroots campaigning.
Amanda Richards -
SPEAK Campaigns successfully stopped the construction of Europe's largest primate testing laboratory in Cambridge and are now fighting to end vivisection at the University of Oxford.
Sean Kirtley -
Activist who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 2years under SOCPA following a legal protest campaign against Sequani laboratories. Sean faught his conviction and won a victory for free speech.
Sat 3rd April Easter Bunny demo at Highgate rabbit breeders
Highgate Rabbit Farm breed rabbits and ferrets for animal experiments. They were exposed in 2008 when anonymous people entered the farm to find rabbits living in bare metal cages suspended above thick excrement and urine. All the rabbits were crammed into cages in a windowless shed. Their first and only glimpse of daylight is the short time in which they are loaded from their cages into a van to be shipped into animal testing laboratories.
Please contact us for transport arrangements if you would like to come along and attend this demo.
Sat 10th April Grand National demo, details TBC
See www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/ CAMPAIGNS/horse/ for more information about cruelty in the racing industry.
Sat 24th April World Day for Lab Animals
A global event to highlight the cruelty in the vivisection industry. There will be a march in London with transport from Liverpool, details TBC.