Little Thimble...another victim of human cruelty.

STOP CRUEL NICOTINE EXPERIMENTS ON MONKEYS AT OHSU

Target:

Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D. Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute nabele@nhlbi.nih.gov

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STOP CRUEL NICOTINE EXPERIMENTS ON MONKEYS AT OHSU

Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) experimenter Eliot Spindel has been killing infant monkeys (like Thimble, pictured here) in nicotine studies for 24 years. But that's not enough for him--Spindel has a ticket to ride the federally-funded gravy train and continue these needless experiments until 2012. Please Take Action to urge OHSU and National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials to end funding for Spindel's experiments, and to redirect tax dollars into useful efforts to help people stop smoking and to keep young people from ever starting.

Cruel is the only way to describe the actual experiments Spindel conducts on female monkeys who are impregnated and subjected to multiple surgeries to implant nicotine pumps in their backs. The monkeys endure multiple surgeries as the pumps must be changed up to five times during their pregnancies. Steady doses of nicotine are delivered to the pregnant monkeys and their babies are cut out of their wombs at various stages of development in order to dissect their lungs.

Thimble's story...not to forget.
www.vivisectioninfo.org/campaigns/spindel/

The letter ande the signatures will be sent to:
Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D.
Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
nabele@nhlbi.nih.gov

Dear sir/madam,
I am writing to urge you to end funding for the studies conducted by Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) experimenter Eliot Spindel.
Cruel is the only way to describe the actual experiments Spindel conducts on female monkeys who are impregnated and subjected to multiple surgeries to implant nicotine pumps in their backs.
I urge you to cut off Spindel's funding, and redirect it into useful efforts to help people stop smoking and to prevent young people from ever starting.
Sincerely.

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We signed the "STOP CRUEL NICOTINE EXPERIMENTS ON MONKEYS AT OHSU" petition!

# 809:

8:20 am PST, Feb 9, Cinzia Maddalena, Maryland
STOP TORTURING INNOCENT BEINGS! WHY KEEP TESTING ON SOMETHING THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN DANGEROUS??? KILLING AND EXPLOITING IS NEITHER THE ANSWER NOR SCIENCE.

# 808:

5:25 pm PST, Feb 4, Mary Flaherty, Indiana

# 807:

8:23 am PST, Feb 2, Martina Gubler, Switzerland

# 806:

7:52 am PST, Feb 2, Ivonne Maldonado, Florida

# 805:

7:01 pm PST, Jan 31, Kathleen Morrison, Canada

# 804:

3:19 am PST, Jan 31, Berengere Desprez, France

# 803:

1:45 pm PST, Jan 30, Sande Waybill, Australia

# 802:

10:19 am PST, Jan 28, Eleonora Debri, Italy

# 801:

2:54 pm PST, Jan 22, Arica Ferris, Michigan

# 800:

10:50 pm PST, Jan 21, Samuli Levaniemi, Finland

# 799:

6:48 pm PST, Jan 21, Kelley Wyskiel, Oklahoma

# 798:

11:39 pm PST, Jan 20, Wanda Perry, Wyoming
We are demanding that our tax dollars no longer fund this research, and it ends today.

# 797:

7:15 pm PST, Jan 20, Lisa Lovell, Indiana
"Humans aren't the only species on earth, we just act like it"....why do humans think that we can abuse animals, especially with testing that we ALREADY know the results for??

# 796:

1:08 pm PST, Jan 20, Romina Chirre, Florida

# 795:

6:20 am PST, Jan 19, Name not displayed, Michigan

# 794:

12:59 pm PST, Jan 18, April Prior, Michigan
I completely understand the use of animals in research. We have to do it because genetically they're the closest to our species. It makes me ponder how the human race would feel if we posed such experiments in university studies on human fetuses or pregnant women. However, the fact of the matter is OHSU is using infant monkeys and impregnated monkeys for research of NICOTINE! If a woman smokes during pregnancy, then there's going to be affects to the fetus. That's why the surgeon general puts it on the pack. Goodness people, we obviously don't care what the affects of our health is caused from smoking. People are going to do it no matter what. It's downright disgusting and very concerning that this college is FEDERALLY funded for these cruel experiments. What about "crack" babies? What's next? Getting funded to experiment on impregnated monkeys on the affects of crack. Get real people! The government needs to try to design experiments that are more humane and less dependent upon infant animals. Why not note all of the research provided from medical records of autopsies of people who have died of lung cancer or people that were smokers before they died. Or, better yet, their records from the health care they were provided with before dying? Can we not donate our bodies when deceased to medical research? Lastly, find the cure for cancer or AIDS rather than the affects of nicotine. Reading this article literally made me lose my lunch. More importantly, I lost respect for our government, our universities, our society, and our scientists for the cruel experiments that are completely unnecessary. Personally, I don't see this research as a "priority" just as stated in the article "redirect tax dollars into useful efforts to help people stop smoking and to keep young people from ever starting." SICK! SICK! SICK!!!!

# 793:

7:32 pm PST, Jan 17, Sophie Szeferowicz, France
Stop that please.

# 792:

6:33 pm PST, Jan 16, Teela Marceaux, Texas

# 791:

2:11 pm PST, Jan 15, Mike Antone, Arizona

# 790:

1:04 pm PST, Jan 14, Name not displayed, Indiana

# 789:

11:34 am PST, Jan 14, Anna Roberts, Texas

# 788:

10:02 pm PST, Jan 12, Katrin Hetzel, Germany

# 787:

9:35 pm PST, Jan 12, Durty South Drew, Florida

# 786:

9:25 pm PST, Jan 12, Elizabeth Octuck, Missouri

# 785:

8:21 pm PST, Jan 12, Casey Fox, California

# 784:

3:51 pm PST, Jan 12, Emma Stevens, Oregon
STOP THIS USLESS EXPERIMENT!

# 783:

5:06 pm PST, Jan 11, Angie Bryant, Florida

# 782:

4:11 pm PST, Jan 11, Dessislava Tzenova, Italy

# 781:

4:01 pm PST, Jan 11, Nikoleta Tzenova, Italy

# 780:

3:16 pm PST, Jan 11, David Benfell, California
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# 779:

12:44 pm PST, Jan 11, Kathleen Cross, New Jersey
Testing on animals is no longer necessary. Stop this cruelity.

# 778:

12:31 pm PST, Jan 11, Paola Dressi, California
The results of animal experiments can not be extrapolated correctly on humans. Vivisection is an outdated and unsafe method. There are more reliable alternatives. Nothing justifies cruelty.

# 777:

9:57 am PST, Jan 11, Bill Reed, Florida

# 776:

6:20 am PST, Jan 11, Kirk Barrett, United Kingdom

# 775:

2:04 am PST, Jan 10, Raymonde Nisolle, Belgium

# 774:

10:40 pm PST, Jan 8, Hubert Delgrange, France

# 773:

11:48 am PST, Jan 7, Carolina Sorrentino, South Africa
is there no compassion?

# 772:

8:09 am PST, Jan 7, Barbara Stracke, Brazil

# 771:

12:01 am PST, Jan 6, Jennifer Deuster, Georgia

# 770:

11:34 am PST, Jan 5, Bonnie Snider, Florida

# 769:

7:46 am PST, Jan 5, Beatrice Barbu, Romania
The tests on animals are not relevant - all the scientific world knows this. Beside that, there's plain and pure cruelty to use living sentient beings to prove something already well known - that smoking during pregnancy is harming the baby.

# 768:

4:14 pm PST, Jan 4, JuliNNA RICKMAN, Virginia

# 767:

1:20 pm PST, Jan 4, Filip Masiulewicz, Poland

# 766:

5:37 pm PST, Jan 2, Noelle Dodd, California

# 765:

10:43 pm PST, Jan 1, Laura Falc�n, California
Laura Falc�n, Jr.

# 764:

9:08 pm PST, Jan 1, Tiffany Cronin, New York

# 763:

8:44 pm PST, Jan 1, Samantha Mitchell, Australia
String the mongrol up and get those poor baby monkeys out of there.

# 762:

6:47 pm PST, Jan 1, Chelsea Warner, Alabama

# 761:

4:13 pm PST, Jan 1, Missi Havok, California

# 760:

2:42 pm PST, Jan 1, Jessica Stain, Michigan

# 759:

2:32 pm PST, Jan 1, Nicole Silva, Massachusetts

# 758:

1:31 pm PST, Jan 1, Elreacy Dock, Nevada

# 757:

12:09 pm PST, Jan 1, Randi Messer, Oregon
We know the impact on nicotine to the health of human beings. Why do we need to keep testing it on animals to see their response to it? This is cruel, disgusting and has NO REASON to be done. STOP IT

# 756:

11:13 am PST, Jan 1, Elisabeth Sammt, Austria
Animal testing is unreliable. This needs to stop.

# 755:

5:08 pm PST, Dec 31, Koteki Takaeshi, Canada

# 754:

9:59 am PST, Dec 30, Lyle Qualls, Colorado

# 753:

6:09 am PST, Dec 29, H�ma Utku, Turkey

# 752:

6:08 am PST, Dec 29, Sophie Szeferowicz, France

# 751:

4:23 pm PST, Dec 27, Cher Isbell, Texas
this is uncalled for, i can't think of a single animal that has chosen to smoke in all of the history of this world, only people, so why not test on the ones that are actually using this stuff and STOP TORTURING INNOCENT ANIMALS YOU MONSTERS!!!!

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