Stop the construction of new UBC animal experimentation facility
UBC (University of British Columbia) Is planning the construction of a new 4500 sq. ft animal research facility at the Okanagan. Brian Vincent, member of a non profit organization called "Stop UBC Animal Research" says that UBC went out of their way to keep details of this facility secret.
Chris Harvey-Clark, veterinarian and Director of UBC's animal care says that 95 percent of animal testing will be done on mice and fish,and when possible, experimentation will be done on cell cultures and with computer programs.Activists are not convinced about the reassurances from a program kept in the dark.
In 1998 there were around 1.8 million animals used in research, since then, this number has risen to over 2 million, and UBC is leading the growth in animal research.
We the undersigned,
Consist of people from all around the globe. We are ordinary people, who believe that the construction of the afore mentioned animal facility should be cancelled, for various reasons. These reasons are many, but the foremost include: Animal research is, more often than not, innefective, unaccurate, cruel, and rolls back the evolution of the human race, turning us to little more than torturers. Torturers who may feel remorse, and who may do it in the pursuit of science, but sometimes the things we don't do are equally as penalizable; I, and any others have not seen any real efforts to find better alternatives rather than harming animals, all we have had were reasurances.
Thank you for your time, and, in the very least, please consider letter despite the pressure you are under.
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