PRISM People for Reason
and Science in Medicine
May 2017
Contact NIH National Institutes Director Francis Collins and tell him why the UW Eunice Shriver Baby Primat Lab should be shut down:
We want to thank every one of the 190,101 people who signed our petition
to Francis Collins, head of the NIH, asking him to close the University of
Washington Eunice Shriver Baby Primate Lab. On May 5, Britt Lind and
lawyer/activist Amanda Schemkes delivered the petition to representatives of
the Eunice Shriver Lab. The petition was also delivered to the home of
Francis Collins.
We spent the preceding week lobbying members of Congress to help us close
down the lab in the same way they were able to close the Eunice Shriver lab
in Poolesville, Maryland. In Poolesville, vivisectors perpetuated the same
kind of experiments as the UW lab. Our question to legislators is: why
should one be closed and the other one allowed to remain open?
It became apparent as we spoke to many of the people in Congress and the NIH
that they had no idea of what vivisection/animal experimentation entails,
that billions of our tax dollars are wasted on grants to vivisectors and
that at least 40% of the grants awarded by the NIH are given to vivisectors.
It made us wish we could spend much more time in Washington, D.C., just
educating legislators.
We also met with Anthony Bellotti, Julie Germany and Justin Goodman of White
Coat Waste. Based in D.C., they are having great success exposing the fraud
and waste of dog experiments funded by the VA.
We will keep the pressure on members of Congress to call for an
investigation into the UW Lab, keeping in mind that, as Anthony Bellotti
reaffirmed, trying to close a university lab is just about impossible
because they are so powerful politically. That is why we will also keep
pressuring the Shrivers to do the right thing and asking them to use their
influence to shut down their mother's lab, one of the worst vivisection labs
in the country.
We need to keep the pressure on Francis Collins. We are asking everyone to
email him at [email protected] and tell him why the UW Eunice
Shriver Lab should be shut down: 1) the experiments perpetrated there cannot
be extrapolated to human babies, 2) they are a huge waste of tax dollars,
and 3) they are barbaric and unspeakably cruel.
We will plan an action at Bobby Shriver's house soon and will let you know
when we have decided on the time and date.
As always, we need your help. Our ongoing campaigns are only possible
because of your donations, so please go to our site peopleforreason.org and
click on the Donate button.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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