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From: 6600spam@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Tom Maynard)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: "animal rights" protests
Keywords: Animal Emancipation, PETA, bozos
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Date: 24 Apr 91 22:15:15 GMT
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At UCSB we've had another barrage of "Animal Rights" protests during the
local chapter of Animal Emancipation's annual "Lab Animal Liberation" week.

I am interested to hear from other people at other campuses to find out
how these type of protests are elsewhere...

We started a local chapter of CFAAR, a pro-research organization this year,
and we have been quite effective (IMHO) so far in dealing with the protests
and accompanying media.  However, the local activists are planning a protest
for friday, and they will probably go all out then (ie: break into labs, or
harrass individual researchers; and get arrested).

I'm not intending to start a flame about research animals; this is NOT the
place for that.. I simply want to find out how other biological/biomedical
researchers/organizations/departments are dealing with these actions.

-Tom Maynard     6600spam@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
 Coalition For Animals & Animal Resarch (CFAAR/UCSB)
 Undergraduate Biology (biochemistry) student