from Michael Budkie -
[email protected]
MADISON, WI - A national research watchdog organization
has filed the largest official complaint in U.S. history against 50
nationally-known laboratories that perform animal experimentation -
including Harvard, the Salk Institute, University of California, Johns
Hopkins and Princeton.
Details of the exhaustive complaint were made public
Thursday in a series of news conferences at different laboratories.
Photographs of abuse - secreted out of these labs by workers - were also
made public.
Filed by SAEN, a research watchdog organization based in
Cincinnati, the complaint alleges laboratories deliberately withhold
information from government oversight agencies, and abuse primates
during experimentation by denying food and water and confining them to
restraint chairs.
"Fifty prestigious institutions are systematically
violating federal laws and abusing thousands of animals in sadistic,
wasteful testing," said Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T., Executive Director,
SAEN.
Laboratories at Salk, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UCLA,
and dozens of other sites are torturing animals and lying about the
experiments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture," he added.
"We believe that these 50 labs may only be the tip of
the iceberg," said Budkie. "60,000 primates suffer and die in U.S. labs
every year. These findings are only the beginning of our
investigations."
Copies of the SAEN report and complaint are available
upon request from
Michael Budkie at:
[email protected]
Phone: (513) 575-5517
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