… and now it's time to think about the animals on it.
Florida Voices for Animals is holding an educational event at University of South Florida-Tampa on Thursday, April 24. The animal rights activists will hold a demonstration in front of the university library between 9 a.m. and noon.
From their release:
In honor of World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL April 20th-April 27), Florida Voices for Animals (FVA) is organizing a leafleting event at USF Tampa’s library. World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL) is an annual event designed to expose the plight of animals used for testing and research. WWAIL seeks to arouse concern for animals in laboratories as well as educate the public about the scientific, moral, and economic objections to animal experimentation, also known as vivisection. Although recent changes worldwide have brought major advancements for animals in labs to end their use in drug and chemical screening tests, millions still remain captive in laboratory cages, subject to intolerable cruelty. Scores of innocent beings endure torture, life long enclosures and ultimately death for obsolete, imprecise, and heartless animal experiments.
Lab testing is a sensitive subject — this demo could get interesting.
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2008.