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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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