Mazor Farm - Close them down!

These monkeys are suffering hell on earth.
Have u ever tried to imagine how could it feel to have your brain opened up, with people making experiments on yourself - while you are still in your own body and totally conscious of what's going on ?!?!
Conscious of all the pain and suffering that they are inflicting upon you... Nowhere to escape, nowhere to get some compassion and care from...

Did You Ever Give A Thought To That ?!?!
it cannot just leave you untouched.........

Please read the following article taken from Invitro.org.il and check their website for more information.



MAZOR FARM - CALL FOR ACTION


The Mazor breeding farm currently holds 1,000 long tailed macaque monkeys. Some of these monkeys were wild caught on the island of Mauritius, while others were born in captivity. Mazor is a link in the chain of cruel trade in which monkeys are forcibly removed from their natural environment then flown thousands of miles in small cages to laboratories or breeding facilities. These animals will have been separated from their family groups, the young brutally separated from their mothers.

Mazor is little more than a monkey breeding factory, whose manager considers the monkeys to be "production units" whose sole purpose is to increase profits, through the sale of the offspring to laboratories. To further increase profitability, the young are separated early from their mothers, allowing these females to mate as soon as possible. Early forced separation is traumatic to both the young and the mothers. These mothers will cry out and cling in desperation to the bars of their cages in a vain attempt to look for their young. The young who have been moved to a separate enclosure, will in turn look for their mothers and display signs of severe distress. Not all of these animals will survive this difficult transition and some will die.

Those who survive will have their chests tattooed with a four digit serial number and then be sold to laboratories in Europe, the US and Israel. Every year, hundreds of these terrified young monkeys will be forced to travel huge distances in tiny crates to faraway destinations, to a fate worse than death, which awaits them. Each of these "units" will fill the pockets of the breeding farm manager to the tune of $2800.



A fate worse than death

The vast majority of these young monkeys will be sold to laboratories that specialize in toxicology (poisoning tests). Among the clients of Mazor are Covance (Germany) , the Swedish centre for Biological studies, as well as laboratories in the UK, Belgium, Italy and the US. The monkeys will be housed in miserable conditions and will undergo toxicity tests in which they will be injected or force fed with drugs and other chemicals. Most of the animals will die during these tests, and those who survive will be killed at the end of the experiment.

Most of the monkeys sold to laboratories within Israel will undergo invasive brain experiments. These experiments involve water deprivation, immobilization in a primate chair for extended periods of time, surgical removal of the top of the skull, and implantation of equipment in the skull and the brain itself. These types of experiment typically last several years, after which most of the monkeys will be killed. In rare instances, individual monkeys are released and allowed to undergo rehabilitation in sanctuaries. This is a relatively recent phenomenon and is due in large part to public outcry.


CALL for ACTION!

Last July, Behind Closed Doors together with other animal rights' groups, called on the Minister of Environmental Protection to withdraw the Mazor trade licence (import and export). The Minister is currently studying our written proposal and is expected shortly to announce his decision.

We would like to ask you to please write a polite message to the Minister, making clear your views that the Mazor monkey breeding farm must be closed down:

Gilad Ardan, Minister of Environmental Protection

E-mail adress:

sar@sviva.gov.il

fax +972-2-6535958

Postal address: Kanfey Nesharim 5, P.O. Box 34033, Jerusalem 95464, Israel.

Here is a pre-written letter (Feel free to use it or writte your own):

_______________________
_______________________

Dear Minister,

We are aware of your efforts to close down this facility, that breed monkeys for the purpose of being experiment in laboratories in Israel top Universities and around the world.

'Mazor Farm' (Israel) is located at 'Moshav Mazor' and been managed by Dr. Moshe Boshmitz
and by CEO of 'Smile Media'- Eli Holtzman is raising over 1000 monkeys in order to sell them to laboratories where experiments in Israel and abroad are expected to have a life of suffering, torture, loneliness and pain.

Every monkey cub sells for 3000$.

For more details: http://invitro.org.il/node/87

We, the undersigned support you with you effort to close Mazor facility once and for all.

Please do all in your power to stop this place from causing more pain!

Your name, surname, city, country

_____________________
_____________________


Send a protest against Mazor Farm to the following bodies:


Environment Minister Gilad Erdan:
Fax: 972-2-6535958
gerdan@knesset.gov.il

El Al CEO Haim Romano
Write to him demanding he halt the transport of monkeys:
Fax: 972-3-7602233
customer@elal.co.il


Sign the petition "Israel against Mazor Farm" and enlist all your friends to sign too:
www.letlive.org.il/azomot_details.php?id=7


RELATED PETITIONS & LINKS


http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/we-must-close-mazor-farm

http://www.letlive.org.il/azomot_details.php?id=7

http://groups.google.com/group/ar-news/browse_thread/thread/63bcc1b62cc3f9df

http://www.all-creatures.org/alert/alert-20100118.html

- Join "We Must Close Mazor Farm!" Facebook group - click HERE

- more on Vivisection and Animal Testings HERE & HERE

Oxford: House of Horrors

Lets have a look at what happens behind the doors at Oxford University:




Boycott Oxford!!!


‘Felix’ was a macaque monkey who was tortured for one entire year by vivisector Tipu Aziz. While excellent alternative research methods exist, Felix was but one of countless numbers of sentient beings that continue to suffer and die inside Oxford laboratories every year for no reason other than greed.

Felix was subjected to the standard method employed to coerce a monkey into compliance: starvation. He had the top of his skull sliced off, an extremely painful procedure. Electrodes were forced into his brain and then he was fitted with a cranial chamber. He suffered alone in his barren cage until the day his torturers had finished with him; the day they put him to death.

From SPEAK Campaigns "Boycott Oxford" and the "Felix Campaign"


But Felix unfortunately hasn't been the only victim at Oxford testing facilities.
Lets remember George - kidnapped, abusued, tortured and blinded, JEZ and Bjee - just a few examples amongst many of the abuse taking place behind the closed doors of the university's labs. It now appears that Oxford University, with the backing of the Labour Government have become a law unto themselves and the university now believe they are untouchable.



Do you really call this science? It looks more like a horror house to me.....












The following are just some of the pointless and cruel tests taking place at Oxford University:

- Brain damage in monkeys increases their fear of toy snakes;
- Researchers debilitate 16 year old monkey;
- Monkey brains damaged to make them indecisive;
- Brain damaged monkeys set thousands of tests;
- Brain damage tests last 9 years... !

read more HERE


Please visit the official site of "SPEAK Campaigns" , these people are certainly on the front line to help the voices of all primates and other animals at Oxford reach all of us.

You will also find a 'Resources' page where to get material such as leaflets, posters, petitions and sponsor forms for helping out with the campaign - very useful stuff if you want to get busy with it, alone or by joining forces with more people.

SPEAK is present also at Myspace, read the story of the building of Oxford laboratory:
http://www.myspace.com/speakcampaigns




Check the articles in the following link for more info on vivisection/animal testing:
Animal Voice - Vivisection

and here you'll find a collection of places online where to obtain more insights:
Animal Voice - Links Archive on Animal Testings/Vivisection

Animal Testing and the European Parliament

Animal Voice received this important comunication from Uncaged, regarding vivisection and the European Parliament.
Please read the letter, watch the videos (warning = they may contain upsetting images for some of you) and check out all the related material.
If you care for the animals, i am sure you'll want to be active in reducing and stopping their pain.


"I'm writing to you at a critical point in a once-in-a-lifetime battle where the lives of millions of innocent animals are at stake. Those animals need you to stand up for them now by writing to Members of the European Parliament.
This battle is over a new law that will govern animal experiments across Europe. The fate of hundreds of millions of monkeys, pigs, dogs, sheep, cats, rabbits, mice, rats, guinea pigs, ferrets, birds and other animals over the next few decades is hanging in the balance.

Next Tuesday, 31st March, will see an absolutely crucial vote at the European Parliament. MEPs on the Agriculture Committee will be voting on a set of proposals produced by an English MEP for the South West England region called Neil Parish.
My colleagues and I across the European animal protection movement have been horrified by many of Parish's proposals, which actually severely weaken the original draft produced by the European Commission last November. It would mean that animals will be even more vulnerable to the kind of horrific abuse exposed by Uncaged in cross-species organ transplant experiments.

In 2003 we won a historic legal victory that allowed us to publish the ‘Diaries of Despair’ – daily records of dying monkeys who had been transplanted with pig organs. They provide unique, damning evidence of why it is imperative we act now on behalf of animals. This was the harrowing demise of just two of the monkeys who had already suffered a dangerous, agonising journey half way round the word and lengthy confinement in a bleak wire cage:

X536f was observed: "looking very weak with head in hands... vomiting profusely”

On X528f’s final day of life she was “Lying on floor, bruising on face and arms, weak, subdued, inactive, in a crouched position showing limited response to touch.”

These animals were suffering the devastating effects of vital organ failure and drug cocktails so toxic that they caused internal haemorrhaging. Their pain and suffering was unimaginable. We can’t stand by while such atrocities are inflicted on the innocent – we need your help to save them from this wretched fate.


Please send an email TODAY or ASAP to members of the Agriculture Committee from your country. Click HERE for a list of the members and links to their contact details.


These are some of the key points to mention:

(1) You are alarmed by attempts to weaken animal protection measures that the European Commission wishes to see introduced.

(2) The Commission wants to phase out the use of wild-caught primates. Amendments that conflict with this goal must be opposed. Despite scaremongering by pro-animal research industry groups, there is no evidence that such a phase-out would damage medical research.

(3) You oppose proposals that would allow any animal to be subjected to 'prolonged, severe' suffering.

(4) Reducing animal use will improve the quality of science, as well as preventing animal suffering. This will make European laboratories attractive to business and academic researchers rather than – as has been threatened – lead to an exodus to parts of the world where standards are lower.

(5) It is vital that all proposed 'projects' using animals are scrutinised rather than being given automatic approval. The Committee is faced with proposals that would allow most research projects to go through on the nod.

(6) You support measures that call for regular thematic reviews of specific areas of animal use and replacement by non-animal systems. Without such a systematic approach, the introduction of non-animal methods will be an unnecessarily protracted process.

(7) Increased accountability, transparency and access to information – as well as data sharing to avoid duplication of experiments – are all vital.

(8) You urge Committee members not to bow to the powerful, self-interested biomedical lobby. They should vote instead for measures that increase animal welfare and which tackle unjustified secrecy and concealment.

Uncaged
http://www.uncaged.co.uk/


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Bad Medicine



Under Cover Footage taken inside Huntingdon Life Sciences


Cruelty and sadism from people at Covance laboratory

Huntingdon Life Sciences: Greed, Lies & Cruelty

Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is Europe’s largest contract animal testing laboratory.
They have about 70,000 animals on site, including rabbits, cats, hamsters, dogs, guinea-pigs, birds and monkeys. These animals are destined to suffer and die in cruel, useless experiments.
HLS will test anything for anybody.
They carry out experiments which involve poisoning animals with household products, pesticides, drugs, herbicides, food colourings and additives, sweeteners and genetically modified organisms.
HLS have been infiltrated and exposed a number of times in recent years. Each time horrific evidence of animal abuse and staff incompetence has been uncovered, including workers punching beagle puppies in the face.
On the SHAC site you will find information on HLS, who they are, who their supporters are and most importantly how you can take action to have this disgrace of a company closed down.

Few highlights on HLS:

- Useless Experiments

- Scientific Facts

- Scientific FAQ

- HLS Customers


Under Cover Footage taken inside Huntingdon Life Sciences


HUNTINGDON LIFE SCIENCES: A to Z


- A is for.... AIR FRANCE.
They ship in animals to HLS. This company dominate the market in flying primates to labs in Europe, many die in transit from suffocation.

Air France HQ, 45, rue de Paris, 95 747 Roissy CDG Cedex, Tel: 01 41 56 78 00 (9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday), Fax : 01 41 56 70 29
Air France, 10 Warwick Street, Piccadilly Circus, London, W1 5RA, Tel: 0845 0845 111
USA, Tel: 1-800-237-2747

- B is for... BEAGLES.
Channel four filmed Huntingdon workers punching tiny beagle puppies in the face because they were crying with pain from having needles pushed in them. They were swung, shaken and punched whilst other workers stood around laughing.
Find out for yourself, view the footage here: http://www.shac.net/HLS/exposed/broughton.html

- C is for... CUSTOMERS.
Customers are the companies that pay HLS to carry out tests for them.
No customers = No HLS.
Find customers in your area and get out your placards and megaphones: http://www.shac.net/HLS/clients.html

- D is for... DAIICHI.
Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd have used HLS hundred of times to test their products.
EU HQ: Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH, Zielstattstrasse 48, 81379 Munich, Germany, Tel: +49 (0)89/78 08-0

- E is for... EXPOSED.
HLS have been exposed on eight separate occasions for animal cruelty. They have been exposed by undercover workers both in the UK and US as well the national media. One expose in 1997 led to Huntingdons License being suspended for animal cruelty.
You can see the evidence here: http://www.shac.net/HLS/exposed.html

- F is for... FRAUDULENT.
A senior scientist has recently filed a law suit against HLS after he was sacked without explanation after refusing to falsify data in laboratory experiments.

- G is for... GLAXOSMITHKLINE.
GSK are one of HLS's largest customers. They have great demo targets all over the world.
If you can't go on a demo you can write to their HQ and ask them to justify what they do:

GlaxoSmithKline, Glaxo Wellcome UK Ltd., Stockley Park West, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB11 1BT.
You can also ring them free from the U.K (infact GSK will have to pay for your call): 0800 221441

- H is for... HERBICIDAL MANIACS.
Despite claims by Huntingdon that they only carry out life saving research, they in-fact carry out tests for pointless products like Herbicides and Agro chemicals.

- I is for... INFO PACKS.
Want to find out more about the campaign? E-mail info@shac.net and ask for a free info pack.

- J is for... JUNKIES.
Workers have been caught out taking drugs and then working with animals. Whilst at work, UK Animal techinician James Berry took speed, and then offered it around to other employees.

- K is for... KIDDY FIDDLERS.
Two executives of some of Huntingdon's largest customers have recently been exposed as peadophiles. Pfizer's executive Alan Hesketh faces trial after posing as a 28 year old woman and trading cruel images of children engaged in sex acts. He did this both from his home and work computer, as well as whist staying at a hotel during a UN conference.
Also the former VP of Chiron (Novarits) was recently caught in a police sting, after arranging to meet up to have sex with underage girls, luckily, however, the "girls" were actually police decoys.

- L is for... LIARS.
HLS tried to cover up SHAC's latest report. Two workers spoke out about the cruelty they witnessed in the beagle unit at Huntingdon Life Sciences. Brian Cass then wrote to all their customers to tell them SHAC made it up, and to ignore it! Silly Cass, obviously we got it all on tape!
Go here for the latest expose:
http://www.shac.net/MISC/Inside_HLS.html
and here to see the letter full of lies that Brian Cass sent out: http://www.shac.net/ACTION/newsletters/HLS_letter.pdf

- M is for... Morale.
Leaked documents from HLS's Occold Lab reveal that morale is very low. One technician when interviewed about why he walked out of work in the middle of the day without informing anyone, stated that he "had reached the end of his tether." He said that other members of staff felt the same, and that he "was merely the first to crack."

- N is for... NYSE EURONEXT.
This is the most important target for the financial aspect to this campaign. Without them HLS can't trade their shares and they have no future whatsoever. Contact NYSE and ask them to stop dealing with HLS. Here are their offices:

AMSTERDAM, Beursplein,5, 1000 GD Amsterdam, Tel: +31 (0)20 550 44 44
BRUSSELS, Palais de la Bourse/Beurspaleis, Place de la Bourse/Beursplein, 1000 Brussels, Tel: +32 (0)2 509 12 11
LISBON, Av. da Liberdade, No 196, 1250-147 Lisbon, Tel: +351 (0)21 790 00 00
LONDON, Cannon Bridge House, 1 Cousin Lane, London EC4R 3XX, Tel: +44 (0)20 7623 0444

NYSE, 3 Old Burlington Street, W1S 3AE, Tel 0207 025 7882
NYSE, Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1HQ
PARIS, 39, rue Cambon, 75039 Paris Cedex 01, Tel: +33 (0)1 49 27 10 00
NEW YORK, Board of Directors, c/o The corporate Secretary, NYSE Euronext, 11 Wall Street, New York, NY10005

- O is for... ORANGE.
Agent Orange was tested at Huntingdon Life Sciences. The deadly chemical was used for deforestation during the Vietnam war and ended up giving soldiers cancer as well as causing birth defects for families in the local vicinity.

- P is for... PHENOMENEX.
This company supply vital laboratory equipment to HLS. Their managing director said that withouth them HLS would find it difficult to keep running.

PHENOMENEX, Melville House, Queens Avenue, Hurdsfield Industrial Estate, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 2BN, Tel: 01625 501 367 Fax: 01625 501 796

- Q is for... QUARTER.
HLS's first quarter results are just out... but so are SHAC's and demo's are on the up.

- R is for... RACISTS.
A senior scientist at their US site has recently filed a lawsuit against HLS after being paid less than white people.

- S is for... SUPPLIERS.
A laboratory can't operate very well without equipment, without stationary, without computer software... Knocking out suppliers won't close HLS but will make life incredibly difficult, coupled with the lack of customers could prove to be devastating.

- T is for... TEVA.
This company have used HLS tonnes of times to test their products, they have sites all over the world, check it out: http://www.tevapharm.com/worldwide/

- U is for... UNSCIENTIFIC.
When asked if they agreed that animal experimentation can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans, 88% of doctors agreed.

- V is for... VICKY RUSH.
This Huntingdon worker broke the leg of a marmoset when restraining him with a gangcage. The animal was susequently "euthanased".

- W is for... WORLDWIDE.
SHAC global has taken HLS by storm. E-mail info@shac.net to get active in your country!

- X is for... XENOTRANSPLANTATION.
Huntingdon carried out sick xenotransplantation experiment for Novartis. This involved stitching pig hearts in to babboons. These primates were taken from the wild and shipped across the world for the sicko's to play around with. Some suffocated in transit, infact HLS predicted this would happen, which is why they ordered twice what they needed. The experiment was a failure and HLS broke the law over 520 times during this study.

Global HQ: Novartis International AG, PO Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland, Tel +41 61 324 11 11
Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd, Frimley Business Park, Frimley/Camberley, Surrey, GU16 7SR, Tel: 01276 692255

- Y is for... YOU.
When will Huntingdon close?
Well that's down to you... the more action that happens, the quicker it will come.

- Z is for... ZYKLON B.
This was a cyanide-based insecticide used by Nazi's to gas jews to death during the holocaust, it was made by Bayer, one of Huntingdons customers.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

- http://www.shac.net/ACTION/what.html

- What Can You Do to Help the Animals : Vivisection


MATERIAL:

- Video Material @ SHAC TV

- Hidden Crimes - photographic exhibition on vivisection

- SHAC @ Myspace

- AV Links Archive - Vivisection

- AV related articles