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24 Hour Animal Aid Vigil held in Cambridge.

Cameraboy | 26.06.2010 21:47 | Animal Liberation | Cambridge

Animal Aid, the Cambridge Animal Rights activist group, staged a 24 hour vigil from 5:00pm Friday to 5:00pm Saturday this weekend, both in memory of Pat Griffin, an Animal Rights activist of some 25 years who died this time last year, but also to raise awareness of the fact that plenty of vivisection is happening on our very doorstep in and around Cambridge.

An interesting view of Senate House.
An interesting view of Senate House.

Wise words...
Wise words...

Keeping the fires burning...
Keeping the fires burning...

...For those no longer with us.
...For those no longer with us.

The night shift!
The night shift!

The long shadow of vivisection...
The long shadow of vivisection...


We currently have Vivisection labs (i.e. labs that test on live animals) on the Downing Street site, part of Cambridge University, and also on the Addenbrookes site, part of the collegiate and laboratory complex there.

We also still have Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) down the road near Newmarket, whom have been propped up financially by the government since all their overseas shareholders pulled out several years ago, after a sustained international campaign against them by Animal Rights activists.

Despite significant advances in testing and imaging technology over the last few years, there is still an entrenched world view within the scientific community (especially among pharmaceuticals companies) that testing on animals is 'necessary', even though there have been numerous occasions where drugs have been released into the market after extensive animal testing, only to wreak havoc in the Human population.

At 3:00am on Saturday morning, candles were lit in memory of Pat, who passed away at the age of 75 last year.

Cameraboy


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