Please Join ARAN & IAVS To Mark International Primate Day in Dublin

dublin | animal rights | event notice Wednesday August 29, 2007 18:34 by John Carmody - Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) arancampaigns at eircom dot net ARAN, Po Box 722, Kildare, Ireland 0876275579

International Primate Day is fast approaching us. Here in Ireland the Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) and Irish Anti Vivisection Society (IAVS) are holding a peaceful protest to shine light on animal experiments here in Ireland and around the world and to show that there is alternatives out there!

Primate Day in Dublin Last Year With ARAN & IAVS - The Perfect Team!

The use of non-human primates (apes and monkeys) in laboratory research and testing is being hotly debated worldwide.

There is mounting support for a new Written Declaration*, number 40/2007, which calls for an end to the use of Great Apes and wild-caught primates in and asks the European Parliament to set a timetable for phasing out all experiments. The strength of feeling on this issue is shown by the support of almost 300 MEPs (out of 785). ARAN & IAVS have being lobbying hard to Irish MEP’s to sign a written declaration to end the use of primates in experiments – the results? 10 Irish MEPs have signed up to this Declaration with just 3 left to sign!. The aim is to have these commitments included in the revision of the European Directive 86/609EEC governing animal experimentation which is now being revised for the first time in 20 years.

Please join ARAN & IAVS for a peaceful protest against animal testing.

When: Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Where: GPO O’Connell Street, Dublin

Time: 1.00 – 3.30pm

Be sure to spread the word! Send this email far and wide and be sure to invite your family, friends, co workers and lets make this event the biggest and best event ever!

Thank you for all that you do to help animals,