Please Cross-Post:*TONIGHT* National Primate Liberation Week-SF Lecture Reminder

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Having trouble viewing this email?Click here Attention, Bay Area Vegans, vegetarians and animal rights activists:PLEASE CROSS-POST www.SAENonline.org This is National Primate Liberation Week:October 17th - October 24th_______________National PrimateLiberation WeekLecture***TONIGHT*** ---------------------------***Press Release***URGENT NEWS CONFERENCE ADVISORY Monday, October 20, 2009:UCSF may refund millions in research grant money after watchdog blows whistleon mistreatment of animals ---------------------------Michael Budkie, Executive Director of Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!,will give a talk about his new book, Tear At The Jacket, as well as talking points on animals suffering in research, particularly regarding UCSF.Please join in attending Mr. Budkie's lecture tonight, to understand the cruel reality of animal research,as well as details on financial waste and fraud of taxpayer dollars. Ifyou'rein the San Francisco area, please come out to hear Mr. Budkie'slectureand join us for the demonstration against animal research thenext day,at UCSF.Fight for the chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys,spidermonkeys, marmosets, lemurs, squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, andotherinnocent primates confined in laboratories. Help us end their abuse!LECTURE INFO:What:-Michael Budkie Lecture-Life in the Lab;A Grim Look Inside U.S. Primate LaboratoriesWhen:-Tonight, Wednesday, October 21st, 7:00pm-Where:The Club Quarters Hotel***New Room Location***- The Apollo Room424 Clay St.(Financial District)San Francisco, California(A short -block walk from Embarcadero BART) The Reality of Primate Experimentation in the United States: Lies, Greed, and Insanity__________________UCSFDEMONSTRATIONINFO:What:***National Primate Liberation Week***UCSF Demonstration Against Animal ResearchWhen:Thursday, October 22nd, Noon - 1:30pmWhere:University California, San Francisco513 ParnassusSan Francisco, CaliforniaInfo on research victims: Manyprimates are caged in facilities owned by the federal government. Over7500 are imprisoned within the laboratories of the National Institutesof Health. The Department of Defense incarcerates over 1600. Otherfederal agencies also use primates in experimentation including NASA,USDA, FDA, and the CDC. And animal dealers who sell primates to labslock away 7000 - 10000. Over 20,000 primates are imported to the U.S.for experimentation every year.Many of these primatesexperience horrible conditions. Recent government documentation hasrevealed primates dying of dehydration, wasting diseases, hepatitis,encephalitis, and many other severe illnesses.Theexperiments towhich these intelligent animals are subjected areextremely cruel. Manyprimates are confined to restraint chairs formany hours. Others sufferthrough the throes of withdrawal fromaddictive drugs. Devices are oftenliterally bolted to the skulls ofprimates using steel screws. Infantsare ripped away from their mothersand driven insane. This list ofcruelties only scratches the surface.Theseintelligent socialanimals often suffer terribly from isolation.Approximately 35% of theanimals housed in labs undergo some level ofsocial isolation. Solitaryhousing has been shown to causepsychologically aberrant behavior inprimates within laboratories. Infact, as many as 10% of isolatedprimates engage in self-injuriousbehavior, biting and tearing at theirown flesh though recentinformation indicates that these numbers may bevery low.Duplicationwithin the system is rampant, with someexperiments being funded dozensof times simultaneously, wasting tens ofmillions in federal funding. Add Army of Compassion to your Facebook!Impact Improving Animal Welfare and the Planet:Please consider sharing news of this with family, friends, and colleagues by forwarding copies of this announcement in it's entirety:If someone has forwarded this notice to you, please to AoC announcements: AoC announcements are a fr!ee service, written and distributed by Army of Compassion Vegan Advocacy. AoC honors you and will never share names, address or contact info. You have our word.