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5 Boston research labs targeted Monday as part of national protests; Dozens of federal law violations, strangulation of primate are cited FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATTN: Daybook/Monday Assignment Desk BOSTON - Five Boston-area research facilities will be picketed here
Monday to highlight an unprecedented number of violations of federal law
and gross animal abuse by the area laboratories -including one case at
Harvard where a primate was strangled to death. Demonstrators said they will hold a news briefing outlining dozens of
violations MONDAY, 10:15 a.m. across from the Shuttle Bus Stop at 221
Longwood Street. Protestors will visit, in order, Harvard Medical School (14 Animal
Welfare Act violations), Boston University (11 AWA violations), Harvard
University (18 AWA violations), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (10
AWA violations) and Massachusetts General Hospital (9 AWA violations). The news conference is sponsored by SAEN, a Cincinnati-based non-profit
watchdog which last week confronted researchers at the University of
California about the deaths of 7 primates who were "cooked" to death in a
lab, that a whistleblower, and former employee, said Wednesday could have
been prevented. And, at the University of Washington, SAEN filed an official complaint
last week after animals mysteriously died, and the head of one primate was
taken by the researcher, who refused to return it to lab veterinarians
trying to determine how the animal died. The actions are part of nationwide demonstrations - Primate Liberation
Week - sponsored by SAEN, which has charged primate research is unethical,
ineffective in curing human diseases and wastes research monies that could
be helping people. Michael A. Budkie, A.H.T., Executive Director of SAEN, said analysis by
scientists of primate research, which brings tens of millions of dollars
to university research programs, is a "waste of precious and limited
health care and research resources." -30-
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