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On 5 Oct 2004 19:44:10 GMT, Professor Ludwig
wrote:

Home Press office Press release: 20.09.04

Mad scientists descend on Oxford
Animal experiments are University's 'catalogue of shame'
In reaction to Oxford University's construction of a new animal
research laboratory on South Parks Road, national campaigning
organisation Animal Aid has produced a hard-hitting, factual booklet
called Oxford University and animal experimentation: a catalogue of
shame.

The booklet documents some of the most severe animal experiments
recently carried out there. Highlighting the horror of this type of
research, on Wednesday 22 September Animal Aid supporters will be
riding around Oxford on tandem bicycles, dressed as boggly-eyed, mad
scientists in blood-covered laboratory coats.

These 'experimenters' will ride past the town hall, the university
Vice Chancellor's office, the student union and other locations, to
hand in copies of the booklet.

The event will be a peaceful and satirical expression of a serious
message.

Oxford University is currently building an £18 million animal
research facility. Our new booklet documents some of the animal
experiments that have already been carried out at this institution, in
the name of science.

Inside the proposed new facility, thousands of animals would be used
in cruel and pointless experiments. One researcher recently revealed
that troops of monkeys are to be housed there. A wealth of scientific
evidence exists which proves that applying the results from such
research to human beings can be unreliable and potentially fatal. Time
and time again, people have suffered severe adverse reactions to drugs
which appeared to be safe when tested on animals, while misleading
data has diverted researchers away from finding cures and treatments
for human disease.

Says Animal Aid scientific consultant, Andre Menache:

"Oxford University has earned itself a reputation for excellence as a
seat of learning. Today, however, it is also synonymous with
controversial animal experiments. These experiments are not about
science or helping human beings through meaningful, rational research.
They are about the search for grants, academic prestige and career
development. If the university were truly interested in finding cures
for human disease, it would invest in a state-of-the-art non-animal
facility and focus on modern technologies instead."

Click here to read Oxford University and Animal Experimentation: A
Catalogue of Shame

http://www.animalaid.org.uk/viv/oxford.pdf

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John
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