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Newsletters From the Desk of Michael Budkie, SAEN’s Executive Director I’m not sure if it is possible to feel both exhausted
and elated at the same time, but if so, then that is what we are feeling
right now. The last several months have been both tiring and rewarding.
Our campaign to expose the truth about animal experimentation has led us
literally across the length and breadth of the U.S. Our work has taken
us to 16 cities, and we have supported activist groups in dozens of
other cities across America. SAEN’s work to expose animal
abuse in the media has been amazingly successful, even generating
international coverage. By working with a former animal
caretaker at the University of California (Davis), we were able to bring
the reality of the brutal laboratory environment to light, which forced
the university to launch an internal investigation. Our expose’ of the
conditions within the University of South Alabama was reported in news
media across three states, reaching hundreds of thousands of people.
Breakthrough media coverage of our work in Baltimore exposed evidence of
primate abuse within federally-owned laboratories. The suffering of dogs
and primates in laboratories from Wisconsin to Massachusetts and
Connecticut has also been revealed by SAEN campaigns.
During 2006, SAEN reached millions of people with over 70 different
pieces of media coverage on the animal experimentation issue. We have
done more to expose cruel and abusive laboratories than anyone else.
SAEN is fighting for these innocent victims and winning!
In lab after lab we have seen incontrovertible evidence of inadequate
veterinary care, severe stress, and indisputable negligence. This
information comes from the very government agency that is charged with
protecting animals in laboratories and provides a compelling indictment
of both the callousness of the laboratories that routinely break this
law and the utter inability of the USDA to fulfill the mission that it
has been given to protect animals. We have reached a point where the law
that was designed to protect animals has actually become little more
than a smokescreen, allowing criminals to hide the heinous reality of
what they do. It is now up to us to utilize this law both to reform this
agency and to end animal experimentation. For if this law was given its
full scope, I believe that it could actually prevent some of the most
abusive kinds of animal experiments. Whether a single
facility is abusing animals or a government agency is failing to enforce
federal regulations, SAEN has stepped up to fight for animals. Wherever
this fight takes us, we will continue to be a powerful and effective
advocate for the innocent animals who are imprisoned within our nation’s
laboratories, and we need you to get involved. We need your help to keep
the pressure on labs across the U.S. to end the abuse of animals – get
involved in World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week events in your area
(see www.wlalw.org for event
listings) – or plan your own event with our help. Just as countless millions of
primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, rats, mice, cows,
pigs, sheep and other species are depending on SAEN to end their
suffering -- SAEN is depending on you to make all of our work possible.
We cannot take on this prodigious task without your help. Our work
simply cannot be done without you. You are an integral part of SAEN.
I am sincerely grateful for all of your previous donations which allowed
us to achieve so much for the animals. What will we accomplish in 2007??
Only you can make this decision. Please continue to give generously so
that we can target even more adversaries. We cannot hope to be
successful without you! Your donation of $25, $50, or
$100 will help us to fight for millions of imprisoned and suffering
animals. Larger gifts of $250, $500, or $1000 will help us to take on
the 1100 laboratories that blanket the U.S. with animal exploitation.
Your continuing financial support will make it possible for us to keep
fighting the cruelty and abuse that is intrinsic to every animal
experiment. Thank you in advance for your gift.
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