World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week working for the liberation of animals from the laboratory

Demonstrations at Bricker Hall on the OSU - We had media coverage from ABC/Fox and NBC stations.

From mice to hamsters. From rats to cats. From dogs to pigs.
From non-human primates to rabbits. All these animals and more are used and killed daily in animal experimentation protocols on The Ohio State University campus.

Various species of animals are used in a wide range of experiments at OSU which include, but are not limited to: tumor growth; inducing stress with and without drugs; running dogs on treadmills, sometimes to death; performing surgeries on primates from which there will be no recovery; injecting mice with methamphetamines to track the effect on their immune systems and aging; severing the spinal cords of rats for educational tutorials; intubating and destroying cats for educational tutorials; breeding transgenic mice where more than 50% of them will be destroyed because they don't match a certain genetic model. Animals will be made to smoke cigarettes, ingest drugs, and will be continually subjected to countless stressful environments.

It is our belief that those who can perform these job descriptions that cause so much misery, loneliness, pain and fear in millions of innocent animals, all in the name of experimentation, must by necessity become inured to the suffering of those left helplessly in their hands. The situation is not unlike workers in slaughterhouses who, after time, don't hear the screams and don't see the abject terror in the eyes of those they kill.

It’s time to speak out! Time to speak out against these experiments and demand they be stopped. Demand the experiment be justified. Is "because we’ve always used a mouse, a rat, a cat, a primate, a dog, a hamster,a rabbit, a guinea pig, a pig" justification?!?!?

Monday, April 24th 2006 - World Day For Animals In Laboratories

10:30am - 11:30am - High St. and 15th Ave. - leaflet

Noon - 111 Bricker Hall, 190 North Oval Mall - Release of new information concerning animal care at OSU

4:00pm - 5:00pm - Neil Ave. & 11th - leaflet

And the next day OSU admitted to having animal care problems.

Tuesday, April 25th

11:00am - 12:15pm - Neil & 11th - leaflet

Wednesday April 26th

4:00pm - 5:30pm - 2001 Polaris Pkwy (turn right if exit going North on I-71)

SIGNS - leaflet what we can - the more people we have the more visible we are.
Recently some OSU animal researchers have moved their animals to this location for housing. When surgeries occur the animals are transported to Sisson Hall.

Thursday April 27th
11:00am - 1:00pm NEIL & 11th

We will be highlighting the research of George Billman who has been running and killing dogs on treadmills since as long as i can remember.

Running For Their Lives!
That’s what the dogs in George Billman’s experiments have been doing for years. In the 80’s and
90’s he would run the dogs on a treadmill and induce a heart attack. Sometimes the dogs would be
given cocaine to address the question, does cocaine have a negative impact on the heart - Duh?
Funding for that work faded but Dr. Billman has continued to run dogs on treadmills, induce a
heart attack but now wonders if exercise is good for your heart.
This past March Dr. Billman received approval to use an additional 210 dogs over the next three
years.

Here's a link for additional information http://www.poetwill.org/billman_dogs.htm

Our demonstration at Neil & 11th on April 27th. - The poster asks:

Is Cocaine Bad For Your Heart?

Is Exercise Good For Your Heart?

Most people knew the answers or shook their heads in disbelief that someone at OSU had been and was killing dogs to find those answers.

On 4/17/06, two dogs (ID 2522 & 2546) were delivered to Billman from Robert Perry, of Mt Sterling. On 4/25/06 dog id#2522 was killed and on 4/28/06, the day after our demonstration, dog id#2546 was killed.

We passed out over a thousand fliers concerning OSU's use of animals in experimentation. We also made it easy for people to mail their protest about intubating and destroying cats for educational tutorials by providing a form letter. The letter is now available here. Just print out and send in the mail to register your complaint against the intubation class using animals.