World Week For Animals In Laboratories Starts April 17

Historic legislation is being considered in the U.S. Congress. The Great Ape Protection Act, H.R. 1326, would ban all invasive research on great apes and would grant all great apes "owned" by the government permanent retirement to sanctuaries. This bill would dramatically improve the lives of about 1,200 chimpanzees currently housed in U.S. laboratories and would ensure that about 600 of these chimpanzees live out the rest of their natural lives in sanctuaries.

Help make this year’s World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL), April 17 - 24, the most effective yet by speaking out against the use of animals in testing and research.

The U.S. is the last known country to conduct invasive experimentation on chimpanzees. H.R. 1326, if passed, would effectively end all known chimpanzee experimentation, not only in the U.S., but in the entire world.

Click here to read more, to send President Obama and your representatives a fax supporting this legislation, and to see how you can get involved with WWAIL.
Next Tuesday March 30th, 6:30 pm, there will be a public discussion at the Central Library downtown
in Room 202 about primate experimentation. If you weren't able to get to the March 15th Debate, please
plan to attend and learn more about this issue.
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The March 15th Primate Research Debate at Tripp Commons, UW-Madison will be
repeated this Thursday on WYOU's "Animals Have Rights" from 10-11:30 pm.
You can watch it livestream, on-line at www.wyou.org, or on Cable 95 or Digital 991
It's also available on www.allanimals.org in the Video Library. Just scroll down on the left
side of the page. www.vimeo.com/10378338

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Last week, on Wed, March 17th, Rick Marolt and Eric Sandgren discussed the
ethical question of experimenting on monkeys on WPR, 970 AM with John Munson.
If you missed it (it was at 7am), you can listen to it here: http://clipcast.wpr.org:8080/ramgen/wpr/jca/jca100317b.rm
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Since the debate, there has been even more news items concerning UW-Madison's research:
On 3/19, Deborah Ziff reported in the WSJ that Michele Basso got suspended at the UW
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/article_2df54462-32eb-11df-98ea-001cc4c002e0.html
and Chancellor Martin sent out a statement:
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/education/university/article_4d5b4216-3386-11df-baff-001cc4c002e0.html
more coverage from the UW student newspapers:
http://www.dailycardinal.com/news/researcher-allowed-to-resume-after-suspension-1.1274498
http://badgerherald.com/news/2010/03/22/researcher_faces_str.php
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The Isthmus reported the latest in the Sheep Decompression studies:
http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28494&sid=5fbadd0aa0aec0a8c4ea602b7a1cf472 http://www.thedailypage.com/media/2010/03/16/UW%20sheep%20decompression%20brief%20031610.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Check out www.madisonmonkeys.com to find more information regarding primate research in Madison.
Check out the links in the section "Call for debate", which include the recent UCLA debate:www.vimeo.com/9566306
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"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

PLEASE become informed and get involved- This cruel and unnecessary research and suffering will continue.
Our community needs to examine this issue more closely. Please forward this and share this with others.

Thank you,
Ann
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www.allanimals.org
http://primateresearch.blogspot.com
www.madisonmonkeys.com