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Nottingham Animal Rights Events

Nottingham Animal Rights | 02.09.2009 00:49 | Animal Liberation

Exotic Pet Shop Demo, Brinsley Animal Rescue work party, Greyhound Demo, London Vegan Festival, DSEi Arms Trade Action, McDonalds picket, Highgate vivisection breeder demo.

Wednesday 2nd September: Exotic Pet Shop demo. Meet 18:00 outside the shop in Beeston (adjacent to the Hop Pole pub). Contact the group, or just turn up.


Thursday 3rd September: Brinsley Animal Rescue work evening. Transport from Beeston at 18:30 and from Nottingham at 18:15. We also will hold a planning meeting for the 12th December East Midlands Vegan Festival.


Friday 4th September: Greyhound demo. Meet at lions in town at 18:00 or at the track 18:30.


Sunday 6th September: The London Vegan Festival. Transport from Nottingham (Sumac) on Saturday night after peoples kitchen and on Sunday morning. Veggies is catering and could use volunteers. Following on from the LVF a contingent of the vegan catering campaign will be staying in London and catering for DSEI demo. For this also, help would be appreciated.


Sunday 6th September: Brinsley Animal Rescue street collection. We have a permit to collect money for our local animal sanctuary on this day. As a lot of us will be in London (see above) it would be REALLY helpful if some of the less regular supporters could spare some time to help with totally non-confrontational activity. Meet 11:00 outside St. Peter's Church on Hound's gate. TO BE CONFIRMED - call 0787 086 1837.


Thursday 10th September: McLeafletting. Meet 18:30 outside Clumber Street Branch.

Followed by:

Thursday 10th September: Next planning meeting. Meet 19:30 in Mezz bar of Broadway. Just turn up. All welcome!!!


Sunday 13th September: Highgate demo. Numbers needed for protest against this breeder of rabbits and ferrets for the vivisection industry - including the notorious HLS... Transport from Nottingham. Contact the group.

Nottingham Animal Rights
- e-mail: nar@veggies.org.uk
- Homepage: http://www.veggies.org.uk/nar

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BENEFITS

02.09.2009 11:51


According to the US-based Foundation for Biomedical Research, 'animal research has played a vital role in virtually every major medical advance of the last century - for both human and veterinary health. From antibiotics to blood transfusions, from dialysis to organ transplantation, from vaccinations to chemotherapy, bypass surgery and joint replacement, practically every present-day protocol for the prevention, treatment, cure and control of disease, pain and suffering is based on knowledge attained through research with lab animals.'

In the last five years in the UK, no fewer than three independent inquiries have been carried out into the effectiveness of animal research in developing medicines for human use. The House of Lords Select Committee, the Parliamentary Animal Procedures Committee and the independent Nuffield Council on Bioethics all concluded that testing on animals is a scientifically sound method, has yielded great results in the past, and is crucial for future advances. Anti-vivisectionists continue to call for public inquiries and will continue to do so until they get the result they want -- which will never be forthcoming, given the overwhelming scientific evidence in favour of animal research.


But animal research hasn't benefited humans alone. Animals also have improved healthcare and a longer lifespan. Farm animals, household pets, wild species and endangered species are all benefiting from the research conducted through animals. There are vaccines for rabies, distemper, tetanus, parvo virus and numerous other illnesses in cats, dogs and countless other domesticated animals. Cats now have a treatment for Feline Leukemia. It's obvious that animal research benefits all living species and that we are all able to live longer, healthier, happier lives because of it.

In fact, 71 of the Nobel Prizes for Medicine won in the last 103 years were awarded to scientists who used animals in their research.


Examples of Benefits


Here are some examples of the benefits yielded from animal research. The animal type is in (brackets) The list is far from comprehensive!


Smallpox (cow): The vaccinia vaccine against smallpox was derived from the cowpox virus used by Edward Jenner following his observation that farm workers who contracted cowpox were protected against smallpox - It has now been eradicated from earth. Polio has been eradicated from North America and people in countries all over the world are being successfully treated (mouse and monkey). Insulin is now able to help control diabetes (dog, fish). There are vaccines for tetanus (horse), rubella (monkey), anthrax (sheep), and rabies (dog, rabbit).


Animal testing has also led to advances in our knowledge that may help us develop additional cures, including an understanding of the Malaria lifecycle (pigeon), tuberculosis (cow, sheep), Typhus (guinea pig, rat, mouse), and the function of neurons (cat, dog). Vivisection was also crucial in the discovery of anti-blood-clotting drugs for the treatment of haemophilia (cat), penicillin (mouse), open heart surgery and cardiac pacemakers (dog), lithium (rat, guinea pig), treatment for leprosy (armadillo), organ transplantations (dog, sheep, cow, pig), laproscopic surgical techniques (pig), and a drug for AIDS treatment (monkey).

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Brinsley Street Collection postponed

03.09.2009 20:13

Rescued swan happy back with its partner
Rescued swan happy back with its partner

The Sunday 6th September Brinsley Animal Rescue street collection has been postponed til October. Details will follow.

Meanwhile visit  http://brinsleyanimalrescue.org/ to read about their work, and to donate directly. They are desperate for help with their £1500 monthly costs for food, bedding and £2000 vet account.

The Rescue is entirely run by volunteers, so all donations go directly to help the animals.

Recent work includes rescue, repair and releasing a swan from Shipley Country Park with an angler's hook in its foot and the hand rearing of 4 baby wild rabbits, 3 baby sqirrels, 4 baby wild mice a collared dove and a sparrow hawk, all of which will be rehabilitated in due course.

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