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Watchdog Organization Files Federal Complaint Against Massachusetts Lab Following Raid by Underground Animal Liberation group VERY URGENT NEWS ADVISORY Attn: Assignment Desk Worcester, MA - A national research watchdog organization has filed an
Official Complaint against the Capralogics laboratory of Hardwick, MA
following a raid by the underground Animal Liberation Front (ALF) that
freed 23 rabbits from the facility earlier this week. The Communiqué from the ALF - which has liberated thousands of animals
over the past several decades from research labs, fur farms and factory
farms - strongly criticized the treatment of the animals at Capralogics,
and used photographs taken by the lab to prove its case: "The photos submitted with this communiqué, taken by a Capralogics
employee in the U.S., show the way rabbits are treated by this terrible
company - their bodies restrained in headlocks, their skin shaved off so
they could be injected with various compounds. When their experiment
concludes they are terminally bled, meaning they are cut and left to bleed
until their life has drained away." Several of the photos from this raid are available on the SAEN website
at www.saenonline.org "The staff of this laboratory clearly have a total disregard for the
pain and suffering which are inflicted on the animals in their care," said
Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T., Executive Director, SAEN, a Cincinnati-based
non-profit animal protection organization.. Budkie said that in light of conditions revealed in the photos from
this ALF action an Official Complaint has been filed with the United
States Department of Agriculture, Animal & Plant Health Inspection
Service. Potential breaches of federal law, he said, could include violations of
regulations for veterinary care, pain relief, reporting of painful
experimentation, and use of alternatives to animal experimentation are the
heart of the complaint. The SAEN complaint asks that the USDA "prosecute Capralogics to the
fullest extend that the law allows." -30- Also See:
Letter to USDA about
Capralogics, Inc - 20 Sep 2006
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