12.06.05 This morning, four animal activists in Worcester faced over 5,000 cancer research UK supporters that were taking part in the annual 'Race for Life' event which is in aid of boosting Cancer Research UK's funds.
A major part of these funds will be pumped back into the fraudulent animal testing industry here in the UK.
We arrived at 10.00am at Pitchcroft racecourse in Worcester. Immediately, an activist in jogging shorts armed with leaflets milled around the thronging crowds gathering on the racecourse and distributed scores of leaflets stating the link between breast cancer and dairy products, meanwhile outside of the course, a big display of anti-vivisection placards had been set up for all to see and hundreds of EFMA leaflets handed out to racers and their families.
A surprising amount of interest was taken in the display and in the leaflets apart from one confrontational supporter of vivisection who showed violent tendencies towards human life as well as supporting the torture and murder of innocent non-human animals. That was only to be expected.
When the (women only) race started at 11.00am, which consisted of women of all ages and sizes, the display was moved to a prominent position along the main road where every single runner who had set off from the racecourse to run around the city streets could witness the opposition to the grossly misleading animal research that blindly spearheads the battle against cancer, research that kills and maims humans and non-human animals alike as the biotech companies fraudulently pump the pharmaceutical markets full of animal tested drugs that include side effects such as siezures, heart attack and strokes.
Police stood opposite the demo keeping an eye on things but gave activists no grief. The thumbs up from some of the passing runners were intermingled with the odd 'p**s off' and 'disgusting!' but we were there to highlight the plight of the animals that suffer and die needlessly in the labs, so their adverse reaction to us ran off us like water .. and we were proud to be there!
Activists today decided to make this an annual event in Worcester (this was the first ever demo at a RFL event in Worcester) and hope for a large turnout next year. If you are nowhere near Worcester then maybe organize you own event against the RFL in your city. Visit the Race for Life website for event dates.
Always for the animals!
Source (with relevent links)
http://www.vivisection.info/ssat/jun12.html
We arrived at 10.00am at Pitchcroft racecourse in Worcester. Immediately, an activist in jogging shorts armed with leaflets milled around the thronging crowds gathering on the racecourse and distributed scores of leaflets stating the link between breast cancer and dairy products, meanwhile outside of the course, a big display of anti-vivisection placards had been set up for all to see and hundreds of EFMA leaflets handed out to racers and their families.
A surprising amount of interest was taken in the display and in the leaflets apart from one confrontational supporter of vivisection who showed violent tendencies towards human life as well as supporting the torture and murder of innocent non-human animals. That was only to be expected.
When the (women only) race started at 11.00am, which consisted of women of all ages and sizes, the display was moved to a prominent position along the main road where every single runner who had set off from the racecourse to run around the city streets could witness the opposition to the grossly misleading animal research that blindly spearheads the battle against cancer, research that kills and maims humans and non-human animals alike as the biotech companies fraudulently pump the pharmaceutical markets full of animal tested drugs that include side effects such as siezures, heart attack and strokes.
Police stood opposite the demo keeping an eye on things but gave activists no grief. The thumbs up from some of the passing runners were intermingled with the odd 'p**s off' and 'disgusting!' but we were there to highlight the plight of the animals that suffer and die needlessly in the labs, so their adverse reaction to us ran off us like water .. and we were proud to be there!
Activists today decided to make this an annual event in Worcester (this was the first ever demo at a RFL event in Worcester) and hope for a large turnout next year. If you are nowhere near Worcester then maybe organize you own event against the RFL in your city. Visit the Race for Life website for event dates.
Always for the animals!
Source (with relevent links)
http://www.vivisection.info/ssat/jun12.html
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Well done
12.06.2005 17:46
It really bugs me that people with good intentions get sucked into funding the pharmaceutical scum and vivisectors in the name of cancer research.
ben
think before you pink
12.06.2005 21:30
not especially vegan but a handy site to point your friends and workmate to for an introduction to how cancer research is just another gravy train for scum.
webcrawler
t'other side of the coin
13.06.2005 20:18
Ever thought that many of the people running passed you were there because they had watched their loved ones die an horrific death from such a awful disease?
If you have compassion for animals, take a moment to have some compassion for those with an 'adverse reaction' because 9/10 they will have a good reason for it.
take your fight to the vivisectionists, not the people who have been effected by cancer.
heads
Check the group out that performed this action
13.06.2005 22:22
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