Press Release
WORLD WEEK FOR ANIMALS IN LABORATORIES
24 - 30 April 2008
Examine what you eat on World Day for Animals: October 4
Each year around 100 million animals, birds and fish suffer and die during painful experiments in the name of science for pharmaceutical, cosmetic and weapons development.These creatures are burnt, scalded, drowned, subjected to emotional and physical deprivations, electrocuted, poisoned and have their limbs and brains damaged, often without the benefit of anaesthesia or analgesics.
In response to this continuing cruel and unethical practice, and to grow awareness of vivisection’s increasing inability to defend these actions, World Week for Animals in Laboratories (24 - 30 April) is observed across the globe.
Animal activists will spend the day on Thursday - World Day for Animals in Laboratories (April 24th), a date recognised by the United Nations - bringing renewed consciousness to the fact that lab animal research is cruel, unreliable, unnecessary and wrong.
Local awareness of the suffering inflicted on animals has grown enormously in recent years and South African animal rights organisations and caring individuals will be gathering to protest the continuing abuse and the secrecy under which vivisectors operate, in various parts of Johannesburg from 7am:
- In front of Wits University steps at the entrance in Jan Smuts Ave
- Outside Wits Research Labs just before the entrance to the Johannesburg General Hospital and
- On the corner of Empire and Yale roads
or contact Michele Pickover on 082 253 2124
or E-mail : .
Activists from Uncaged painted on the Star Wall in Johannesburg which is situated at a very busy intersection.
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