Ten More Reasons to Protest Harvard _

If our first 10 reasons didn't convince you that you ought to join us
in protesting Harvard this Saturday, here are ten more reasons. This
list gives you some specific examples of Harvard New England Regional
Primate Reserach Center (NERPRC) research. All of these "studies" are
taxpayer funded. If you missed the first 10 reasons, just scroll
through the recent messages.

1. In the US, over 60% of human deaths are linked to cancer, heart
disease, and stroke, all health problems highly linked to consuming
animal flesh and fluids. However, nationwide, over 93% of primate
experiments do not address these disorders. There are literally more
taxpayer funded studies of monkey reproduction and monkey sex than
of heart disease and cancer.

2. Former NERPRC acting director Bertha Madras has spent over 40
years addicting animals to recreational drugs, including cocaine,
speed, heroine, speedballs, and alcohol. She has apparently become so
desensitized to her abuse of animals that one of her actual research
protocols referred to monkeys as "taking the cocaine challenge".

3. Roger Spealman also addicts monkeys to drugs. One of his studies
addicts monkeys to cocaine, breaks them of the addiction,
then "induces social stress" to see if they will re-addict. Frankly,
anybody with an IQ higher than his/her shoe size could tell you that
ocial stress can cause re-addiction. We don't need to spend over 1
million tax dollars to torture monkeys to find this out.

4. Spealman also electroshocks shocks monkeys "in order to sudy
the effects of electroshocks on monkeys". Electroshock has a
notorious history of abuse in human mental institution patients but
has reportedly been refined for use in treating extremely depressed
and highly suicidal patients. As we understand it, even the strongest
of anti-depressants take a couple of weeks to work, too long for
extremely suicidal people, so this treatment may have benefits for
humans if carefully used (we leave that up to you medical and psych
professionals to determine). However, lab monkeys are not humans, and
if lab monkeys are depressed, it's because their lives are living
nightmares caused by humans like Roger Spealman.

5. NERPRC reseacher David Adams has spent a career failing to
transplant pig kidneys and hearts into baboons. Because of the risk
of introducing new diseases into the human population,
xenotransplantation (the term for trans-species transplants) is
extremely controversial even among people who don't care a bit about
animal suffering. Adams, though, has been blithely proceeding along,
killing dozens of two of the most intelligent species on earth with
no success whatsoever. And, just to prove his status as a sociopath
(in our humble opinion), Adams has taken to filming the animals'
dying and broadcasting it on the internet.

6. John Assad has been permantly attaching head restraint bolts to
monkeys' heads so that he can keep them still during his "research"
studies. In 2003, NERPRC actually claimed in federal documents that
zero primates felt pain. It's hard to imagine that having a permanent
head restraint bolt installed is not painful. Assad also has
installed "coils" in monkeys' eyes. We're sure that that's not
painful either.

7. Alberto Palleroni and associates scammed 50,000 taxpayer dollars
to go to a Latin American island to play tape recordings of raptor
(hawk, eagle, etc.) calls to young monkeys to "study their fear
reactions". Concerned about high medical bills and high health
insurance? Why should you be when you know how monkeys react to
frightful stimuli?

8. Another study of lab animal research done by Harvard found that
the "effectiveness" of all but one "enrichment" methods "declined
over time". Enrichment is the feel good BS term for giving balls and
toys to animals subjected to brutal research. The researchers
literally seemed puzzled by the idea that the balls and toys didn't
work as well over time. DUHHHH! The longer an animal is denied all of
his/her basic instincts, the more depressed and neurotic and/or
psychotic that animal will become. If that animal is also subjected
to the abuses of people like John Assad, David Adams, Bertha Madras,
and Roger Spealman, his/her problems multiply exponentially. Even if
that animal is not currently under assault, he/she may hear the cries
of other battered and butchered animals.

The one "enrichment" method that supposedly works is "group housing".
Primates are just as social as humans and are happier and better
adjusted when given contact with other primates. Nationwide, over 35%
of lab animal primates are denied group housing.

9.NERPRC staff has justified all of its BS, horors, and nonsense by
claiming that they are doing cutting edge AIDS research. In fact, the
director, Ronald Derosiers, has gained his position on the basis of
so-called AIDS research. NERPRC press releases have claimed 6 times
in the last 20 years that NERPRC has "developed vaccines against
AIDS". All 6 have failed. 82 of 82 AIDS vaccines that "worked" in
primates have failed in humans. Science, the most prestigious general
science journal in the country, declared AIDS primate research a
failure and dead end as long ago as 1990. Yet Harvard continues to
suck up millions of dollars and torture thousands of animals for this
failed and horrific approach to AIDS research. Multiple breakthroughs
have occurred that help alleviate the suffering and prolong the
lives of AIDS sufferers; none of them have come from abusing primates.

10. Animals are not objects for us to do what we want with; they are
not "things" or "its"; they are not "tools" for research; they are
beings with emotions, desires, needs, and the capacity for suffering.
Even if a primate in a lab is, for some highly unlikely reason, never
subjected to the nightmares of vivisection, that animal is denied all
of his/her basic instincts and is suffering. This suffering is hidden
from public view, denied, and justified as necessary by those who
earn their paychecks by causing this suffering. Please come out this
Saturday to say that this suffering matters.

We hope to see you tomorrow.

For the animals,

Helen and Steve