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UK Bio-technology Newswire Archive

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Nepalese Monkey Export Ban Under Threat!

24-10-2008 14:35

The latest news the G2H team has recieved from Nepal is not only will the monkeys not be released from the breeding centres [because they are "private property"] but that the Nepalese government is even considering restarting the exports....despite a previous public statement that Nepal no longer has a policy of exporting monkeys for the vivisection industry!

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What would GM crops mean for Britain? Percy Schmeiser UK tour.

24-10-2008 08:34

Percy Schmeiser, farmer's victory over Monsanto.
International GM campaigner, Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian arable farmer, will talk about his experiences and the implications for UK farmers after his major fight in the courts with food and biotech giant Monsanto.

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Activists Bring Biofuels Conference to Stand Still on World Food Day

16-10-2008 10:58

Climate Activists have brought the Newark Biofuels Expo to a stand still with rape alarms and banners.

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Primate Liberation Week: 11th - 19th October 2008

02-10-2008 14:08

Primate Liberation Week is a week of action against the primate research industry being staged in the USA from the 11th to the 19th of October.......but we say why should the yanks have all the fun???

This is a European call to action against the Primate Research industry that kills over 12,000 primates each year in the most disgusting and sordid manner to produce scientifically pointless research!

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HIV denialist to speak at ESF

21-09-2008 07:56

The 'Dr Rath Health Foundation', who will today join a workshop at the European Social Forum, have been involved in spreading deadly misinformation about medication for HIV, and promoting other ineffective treatments for serious illness, sometimes with fatal consequences.

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Action Alert -- Nepal Fair London 2008

17-09-2008 17:28

Nepal may have banned the export of monkeys for vivisection, but the monkeys are still in the monkey farms and are still being used in research by American vivisectors based in Nepal.

This weekend they will be staging Nepal 2008 in London, please politely contact the organisers to express your concern about Nepal's continued exploitation of their monkeys and to ask them to use their influence to ensure the monkeys are saved from vivisection.

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Urgent Action Alert: Demand the Release of the Nepalese Monkeys!

03-09-2008 11:38

Nepal has banned the export of monkeys for vivisection, now it's time to demand the immediate release of all the monkeys from the breeding farms and an end to all American funded bio-medical research on primates in Nepal!

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Footage of the Nepalese Monkey Farms Released

02-09-2008 11:55

The Gateway to Hell Campaign video for Nepal released....

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Save the Nepalese Monkeys From Vivisection -- Support Gateway to Helll

31-08-2008 20:07

Support the Gateway to Hell campaign by subscribing to our mailing list to keep up with all the latest news and action alerts....

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corrupt police, fbi/cia

30-08-2008 20:01

see the evidence of the low and violent mindset of the fbi/cia,police, etc., in the report shown below (with link).

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Paranoid Crap about Cops Grasses and Infiltrators

29-08-2008 20:55

Important message about the postings about "all those posting paranoid crap about grasses and infiltrators" and dealing with this.

The enemy isn't [necessaraily] the police or security services. It's Big Pharma and Farmers.

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Direct Action; Denmark, Mexico, USA, Australia & Spain

29-08-2008 20:10

CAGES EMPTIED AT FUR FARM (Denmark)
DAYLIGHT RESCUE OF RABBIT (Mexico)
TOILETS CLOGGED AT FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS (USA)
MELBOURNE ZOO VANDALIZED (Australia)
REPEAT VISIT TO FUR SHOP (Mexico)
15 FUR SHOPS SABOTAGED IN BARCELONA (Spain)
MEAT MARKET REDECORATED (Mexico)
PAINTED PROTESTS AGAINST PET STORE, GE CORN (Mexico)

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Export banned of Nepalese monkeys for vivisection

29-08-2008 18:47

GREAT NEWS; EXPORT HALTED: Round one is ours, now it's up to all of us to win this campaign and liberate the captured monkeys in the breeding facility in Nepal.

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Support Portuguese anti-GM activists.

26-08-2008 11:50

All over Europe, citizens engage into civil disobedience and direct action in resistance against cultivation of genetically modified crops. Only in Portugal, people that have applied this strategy are officially labeled as terrorists. Please help pulling the Portuguese activists out of their isolated position and express your solidarity by signing the petition!

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Over 50 activists in Sweden storm monkey testing laboratory

26-08-2008 08:04

Early monday morning a vivisection laboratory in the Stockholm area was stormed by anti vivisection activists

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Shifting The Burden Of Proof Changes Nothing In The GM Debate

22-08-2008 10:09

Imagine the scene: you walk into a bar and someone immediately faces you up, brandishing their fists, red with pent-up aggression clearly eager to send you on to the floor or worse. He screams into your face, spittle flecks flying across your nose and lips, “Prove to me that you deserve not to be punched repeatedly in the face!”

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Protest against monkey export in Belgium

15-08-2008 12:34

Once again on the doorstep of the Belgian embassy of the island of Mauritius, in solidarity with Shac prisoner Dan Amos  http://myspace.com/supportdan

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Demo against Nepal's plan to export monkeys

10-08-2008 17:18

July 17th, London. Campaigners returned again to the Nepalese embassy in London in support of the week of action against the export of monkeys from
Nepal to research labs in the USA.

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Stop The Monkey Business -- Photos of the Monkey Farms!!!

08-08-2008 20:37

The Nepalese Government claims that there are no monkey farms in Nepal and that the campaign has been misinformed that American research institutes are breeding rhesus monkeys for vivisection.......Finally, we give you the proof that they are lying!!!

The monkeys you see are destined for export to the USA next month, but it's not too late to stop them....Their lives are in our hands, so act and fight back by whatever means necessary before it's too late for these innocent creatures!!!

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Surgery saves far more lives from cancer than drugs

07-08-2008 21:32

The President of the Royal College of Surgeons has said that more research money should be spent on improving surgical techniques than inventing new drugs which don't work.
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