SAY NO TO CRUEL ANIMAL RESEARCH-Stop granting funds; stop approving archaic research!!

  • by: Health & Wellness
  • recipient: Management Section, NHRMC, Canberra, Australia; Management, Australian Research Council, Canberra , Australia (provided the grants) and Animal Ethics Committee, University of Sydney, Australia (approved this and similar experiments )

The University of Sydney have approved and conducted numerous cruel testing on cats and other animals. Many of these research studies are funded by tax payers' money.
 The results of studies show little or no relevance to the improvement of health in humans.  
 Animals have no voice.  We need to stand up for them and be heard. Together we can and will make change!
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Dear Sir/ Madam,
W
e ask that YOU say NO to funding animal-based experiments.  The world is watching. It is time using animals for this purpose to come to an end! We feel violently ill finding out that such research has been conducted and we DEMAND that you put a stop to your contribution approving of such research studies and/or contribution of funds. 
     One of the horrific, recent studies you have contributed to using a substantial grant from taxpayers,  is the 'Cats in vision research at University of Sydney' which we find repugnant and strongly object to this and other such vile research studies where animals suffer inhumane treatment.  In this particular experiment eleven adult cats underwent highly invasive surgical procedures that included
-the cats’ heads were restrained in a stereotaxic device-an odious device with bars (banned in other countries) secured into its ears preventing movement of the head
-the removal of part of the skull as well as bilateral cervical sympathectomy
(intentionally cutting the nerve supply to parts of the head and eyes)
-the brain of each cat being exposed by way of a craniotomy (surgical removal of a portion of the skull)
-a plastic cylinder was glued to the skull forming a well around the craniotomy and a small opening was made in the brain matter
-a stainless steel microelectrode was positioned above it and coated with dye and slowly advanced into area 18 of the brain and lesions were made
-pharmaceutical solutions were applied to the eyes     
 
-at the end of the experiment each cat was killed 
-the use of a muscle relaxant (which masks the huge pain to the animal)
-the cats received DAILY intramuscular injections of antibiotics, which would suggest that the animals may have undergone repeated
   There is no indication by the authors of the study as to the duration of each experimental session, nor whether the cats underwent more than one study session.  They make no mention of any relevance this research may have to humans.  In 2002 researchers noted that eye-movements in paralysed animals can lead to a profound underestimate of neuronal sensitivity to visual stimuli.  So does this mean that these cats have suffered and had their lives destroyed for a research study which was doomed to be ineffective from the start? 
    How utterly disgusting!  If this does not bring mankind to its knees to beg for forgiveness for this vile act, what are we saying to our children? That it is okay to torment and torture animals, to administer painful, disfiguring and cruel treatments all in the name of 'Research'-Research which is NOT necessary.   How can mankind allow such acts?
    
It makes us feel violently ill just reading about all of this.  How can this be happening in Australia? And what has these vile acts achieved? What did the eleven cats suffer for? NOTHING! Have you checked the outcomes of these studies? It is unclear as to whether the authors could foresee any application of this work.  The publication does not provide any evidence to show that the information obtained from the killing of these 11 cats will lead to cures for people (or even animals, for that matter).  There is no mention in the paper by the authors of applicability to either human or veterinary medicine.  Minimal results for so much unjustifiable acts. And yet how much suffering has your money caused?  OUR MONEY -as it is tax payers' money! 
     Please ask yourself HOW! WHY? How and why can YOU have let these animals suffer so much?  How can we still let this happen in Australia?   Surely we are more civicilised than this!
       
Animals deserve compassion, respect and DON'T deserve the pain which your funds have made possible. The money you are providing is from taxpayers’ money.  OUR MONEY! We demand that you no longer provide money to such research studies. 
      We are looking  forward with anticipation to find out  which studies you  are going direct future grants. 
Kind Regards,
The voices of countless animals that are being and have been sadistically tortured and killed!
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