DARTT is hitting the streets for NPLW and we need your help!

Wednesday, Oct 21st 4-6 pm NIH Demos. Meet at W Cedar Ln & Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda, MD

Primate experimentation in the U.S. is out of control. All-time high
69,990 primates are imprisoned in US labs for experimentation – a five
year increase of 31%. An equal amount are held captive for breeding,
making the total closer to 120,000. We estimate that funding for primate
experimentation has also increased reaching $1.6 billion during fiscal
2007. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is responsible for most of
this waste.

Over 70,000 primates (rhesus monkeys, baboons, squirrel monkeys,
chimpanzees, etc.) are experimented on every year in the United States.
Many thousands of primates are also imprisoned in labs for breeding and
conditioning. This brings the total number of primates held captive in
laboratories to almost 120,000.

Many primates are caged in facilities owned by the federal government.
Over 7500 are imprisoned within the laboratories of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH). Tis is why DARTT is setting our sights on
them. In solidarity with NPLW ad SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now!),
we are going to send a clear message to the lab that sbjected 1663
non-human primates to painful and cruel experiments and having 2259
non-human primates used i their Bethesda lab and providing funding for
labs across the nation to inflict pain on thousands more non-human
primates around the country.

Many of these primates experience horrible conditions. Recent government
documentation has revealed primates dying of dehydration, wasting
diseases, hepatitis, encephalitis, and many other severe illnesses.

The experiments to which these intelligent animals are subjected are
extremely cruel. Many primates are confined to restraint chairs for many
hours. Others suffer through the throes of withdrawal from addictive
drugs. Devices are often literally bolted to the skulls of primates
using steel screws. Infants are ripped away from their mothers and
driven insane. This list of cruelties only scratches the surface.

Of course, we did not forget Huntingdon Life Sciences (HL, by kicking off National Primate Liberation Week on Oct 19th with protests at two customers of puppy(and MONKEY)-killing Huntingdon Life Sciences:Novartis and Sanofi-Aventis. An ADI investigator worked for a year inside HLS' primate unit, whilsttwo others exposed the international primate trade in South America andAsia, where they filmed horrific scenes of primates being snatched from the wild for the labs of Huntingdon Life Sciences. DARTT continuesl continues our ongoing fight with the customers of HLS to close don this hellhole once and for all. A company cannot function without their customers!
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Wednesday, Oct 21st 4-6 pm NIH Demos. Meet at W Cedar Ln & Old
Georgetown Rd., Bethesda, MD

Signs and leaflets will be provided.

NOTE: These are peaceful and legal demonstrations to raise awareness of
National Primate Liberation Week to the general public and place strategic
pressure on NIH and HLS, who will kill and torture thousands of non-human
primates every day of the week.

In DC, there is no sleep, no rest, or no peace for the wicked!!
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