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ARCrew | 21.11.2003 18:41 | Animal Liberation | Cambridge

Primate experiment lab approved

Cambridge University has received UK Government approval for a controversial laboratory in which it intends to carry out brain experiments on monkeys.

The blood's on Prescott and Blairs hands!! The slimy SCUM!
The blood's on Prescott and Blairs hands!! The slimy SCUM!


Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott ruled in favour of the proposed centre at Girton, near Cambridge.

The university wants to build the £20m lab to carry out neurological research.
Animal rights groups fiercely oppose the plans, saying the work is cruel.
Local planners had previously thrown out the university's request to build the lab after police raised fears about public safety at the site, on a main road.
The university appealed against the decision and a public inquiry was held late last year.
But after the direct intervention of Tony Blair and his chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, in support of the planning application, the issue was called into Whitehall for a final decision.

'Special circumstances'
On Friday, Mr Prescott's office said the inspector recommended that the university's appeal be dismissed but Mr Prescott disagreed.
"...the Secretary of State concludes that in the circumstances of this case very special circumstances exist that are sufficient to outweigh any harm to the Green Belt and other interests caused by the development," a spokesperson said.
Cambridge University said it was pleased the research centre had been given the go-ahead.

"It is reassuring that the government is sending this unequivocal message of support for neuroscience in the UK," Professor Tony Minson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, of Cambridge University, said.

'Dubious' science
Neuroscientists argue that experimenting on monkeys - close relatives of humans - is the only way to progress research towards new understanding and medicines that will combat the diseases that afflict a "greying population".
They point to successful treatments for Parkinson's and new brain-imaging technology that they claim could only have been achieved by studying primate biology.
But animal rights groups say the science is flawed because the monkey and human brains differ in vital respects, making many experiments worthless.
They also question the university's record on animal welfare, arguing recent undercover work has revealed poor practice in the university's other labs.

Street protest
Wendy Higgins, from the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (Buav), said the decision was no surprise, coming "just at the time that Cambridge University itself is throwing doubt over the project due to rising costs.
"This means the government has kept its bargain to back up the vivisection industry by granting approval in the full knowledge that the final decision is now left to the university."
The Buav predicted that if the project went ahead, it would be blighted at every step by animal rights protests.

"With such a display of arrogant disregard for public opinion, is it any wonder that an increasing number of citizens feel their only option is to abandon the political process and take to the streets instead?" Higgins said.

The university admits it is now facing a multimillion pound shortfall in funding for the centre - further costs have had to be factored in because of new animal welfare regulations and the need for extra security.

This has led to wide speculation in campaign groups that Cambridge, now that it has its "victory", will withdraw its application, with the government moving all primate research to its military research centre at Porton Down.
"Cambridge is looking for a way out," said Andrew Tyler, the director of Animal Aid. "If they take it to Porton Down it will compound the fact that this grotesque and pointless research by making it secret and inaccessible as well. Wherever it goes, we will fight it."

'Crucial role'
Primates represent a very small part of the animal experimentation programme in Britain. The vast majority of procedures are done on rodents.
Less than 3,500 experiments are carried out on, mostly, marmosets and macaques, and very few of these will involve a highly invasive practice such as cutting into the brain.
Professor Chris Higgins, director of the Medical Research Council's Clinical Services Centre, said: "Our work on basic brain function couldn't be applied to human disease without some sort of research being done on animals - and in some cases, these animals have to be primates.

"The human brain is clearly more complex than a mouse's, so problems such as memory degeneration have to be studied in the brain of an animal that has the same level of memory functions as a human being."

The decision was also welcomed by the Parkinson's Disease Society.
"Improved treatment and the search for a cure depend crucially on a better understanding of the processes of the disease," a spokesperson said.
"In the last few decades thousands of people with Parkinson's have benefited from new therapies, such as L-Dopa, which would not have been developed but for the insights gained from research involving animals."

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The labour Govt. Murdering people and animals is the nature of these terrorists

21.11.2003 19:06

Nobody wanted the war in Afghanistan nor in Iraq! Nobody wanted the primate labs built in Girton that will enable sick twisted perverted students to stick knives into the brains of conscious primates!

What do you get with new labour? Murder and Mayhem all the way thanks to these lying fascist businessmen scumbags! Hang the lot of'em!!

Links that reveal the truth about what a waste of time vivisection is and what vivisection looks like during and after.

THE ABSURDITY OF VIVISECTION www.vivisection-absurd.org.uk

SERIOUSLY ILL AGAINST VIVISECTION  http://www.siav.org

BETRAYED www.betrayed.org.uk

PEOPLE AGAINST CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - WEST MIDS (picture resource page - abuse and liberation)  http://www.vivisection.info/paca/index.html

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ram

21.11.2003 23:37

Glad you see a connection between the attitude of murder and cruelty. That's what the above post is about. Governments hell bent on causing more suffering at every turn. Well done.

Who the f*ck is defending who? What's ludicrous? Are you ok?

TheAbovePoster


Apologies to ram

22.11.2003 00:11

A 'lot of people' didn't the war in Afghanistan nor in Iraq! A 'lot of people' didn't want the primate labs built in Girton that will enable sick twisted perverted students to stick knives into the brains of conscious primates!

Peace Ram.

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SCUMBAG!

22.11.2003 10:35


The blood will be on his hands!

Ron


synaptc links

22.11.2003 10:46

a couple of weeks ago two scottish scientists succeeded in
an experiment wherby monkeys could brain control a computer...

these experiments will be continuing
to forge the two way process between
technology and your noodle...
no doubt the benefits of such technology
could be staggering...

as with the potential for stem cell reseach...
ie to grow a perfect match for your bad organs...

instead religous zealots want to give you a pigs heart...

unfortunately the good guys are not in control...
as usual they wheel out the 'disease eradication'
and 'help to the disabled' line
as a device to make you feel all
warm and fuzzy without considering the other potential
danger...
similarly to the reasons for sattellite tagging
that was wheeled out to the tune of
controlling pedophiles...
the agenda...

TOTAL CONTROL

Captain Wardrobe
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