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Press Release MARCH OF DIMES WASTE-A-THON CHALLENGED! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: MARCH OF DIMES WASTE-A-THON CHALLENGED! May 1, 2005 On Sunday, May 1, ANIMAL DEFENDERS OF WESTCHESTER
will conduct a demonstration at the annual March of Dimes Walkathon outside
Saxon Woods in White Plains, from 8 AM till 9: 30 AM, to educate the public
about the cruel, wasteful and even dangerous endeavors this institution is
involved in. Examples of how they waste money: - Implanting electric pumps into the backs of pregnant rats to insert
nicotine, even though the dangers of cigarette smoking is already
established; - Transplanting organs from guinea pigs to rats, which has no impact on
human babies whatsoever; - Injecting newborn possums with alcohol, then cutting off their heads
and examining their gonads, even though the dangers of alcohol to human
babies is well known; - Injecting pregnant rats with cocaine, though the dangers of cocaine to
human babies is well-known. Animal tests are proven to be unreliable, for such reasons as different
species development in utero, differing learning rates between human and
non-human animals, varying sensitivity to chemicals between species; even
the stress of handling and restraining animals has been proven to effect
test results. Furthermore, this group actually endangers babies by falsely telling
donators they are ‘saving babies’ - when the fact is large sums of donation
monies goes to ‘white coat welfare’, so that researchers, MOD staffers, etc
can own nice homes in the tonier parts of Westchester. And the very few
‘advances’ they make are delayed from public availability while being first
tested on a mouse, then a rat, then a dog, then a chimpanzee, then a goat,
etc. Kiley Blackman, organizer of this event said, “I am always shocked to
find out how little the public still knows about effective pre-natal care;
MOD should put far more of their efforts into establishing a national
registry to identify genetic patterns, providing pre-natal education - and
actually providing available pre-natal care to those who can’t afford it.
They have enough money to do that, if only people would demand it.” |
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