Programs & Campaigns
NEAVS' Campaigns
for Compassion
For 107 years, education has played a crucial
role in NEAVS’ work to end vivisection. And, while our exclusive
focus is on ending the ethically indefensible and scientifically
unsound practice of animal experimentation, we also work to inform
the public that animal cruelty in any form should never be allowed.
NEAVS is actively:
In recent weeks, NEAVS took time to:
- Contribute written testimony to several state
legislatures on the importance of making bestiality a criminal
offense.
- Urge the incoming President of the American
Psychological Association (APA), Norine Johnson, PhD, to include
in her vision for the APA “an informed look at the need for greater
emphasis on human clinical research and a new look at the repetitive,
unproductive and often cruel dependence on the animal model.”
- Urge the Israeli Minister of Health to ban
psychological experiments using animals.
- Wrote to The Atlanta (GA)-Journal
Constitution pressing for the thorough investigation and
prosecution of three teenage boys charged with torturing, mutilating
and killing a kitten.
- Sent a strong response – plus an open invitation
to debate – to the national pro-vivisection group, Americans for
Medical Progress (AMP) following AMP’s slanted portrayal of the
Animal Rights 2001 conference of which NEAVS was a major supporter.
- Lent support to H. 1437, a bill to facilitate
“cross reporting” of abuse of children and animals. The bill requires
agencies investigating one type of child or animal abuse to also
report the other type of abuse.
- Responded to the Charlotte (NC)
Observer’s article “Perfecting Organs of Pigs for People”
that appeared 8/9/01. Read NEAVS’ response pointing out the potential
harm to humans from such xenotransplants. For a copy of NEAVS’
Xenotransplantation Fact Sheet, contact
us.
- Commended Senator Robert Byrd (D-West VA) for
his presentation on the floor of the Senate calling for an end
to violence and cruelty to animals, especially to those on factory
farms.
In addition, NEAVS President, a psychologist,
often contributes expert testimony on the psychological and emotional
aspects of dissection, vivisection and violence
toward animals in our society.
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