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A letter to Cancer Research UK

Some health charities ask for donations to help people with diseases

and disabilities and then spend the money they receive from a trusting

(sometimes gullible) public to fund horrific experiments on dogs,

rats, mice, primates, rabbits, hamsters, pigs, and other animals.

Instead of wrecking animals' bodies in the application of a highly

unreliable experimental method in pursuit of an impossible scientific

answer, compassionate charities concentrate their funds on the

research which holds the best hope for treatment: with humans. They

know that we can find treatments through modern methods in alternative

to vivisection, and they finance only non-animal research.

One of the charities which do fund animal experiments has written to

me. This was my reply to them.

You can use this letter, indeed I encourage you to use it.

Letter to Cancer Research UK:

We have received a letter from your organization asking for funds. We

want to inform you that we do not support your charity in any way,

because you fund animal experimentation. This is a highly immoral

practice, no less criminal than murder and torture. We find

hypocritical that an organization that claims to be a charity and to

take the moral high ground can fund such a criminal practice. You

should take example from the charities which do not conduct or fund

experiments on animals, such as Caring Cancer Trust, New Approaches to

Cancer, Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research and many others.

Sincerely,

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Are pesticides saving animals' lives?

"Kenya plans massive elephant translocation to ease human-wildlife

conflict." We constantly hear news like this. In Africa in particular,

animals living in the wild have to "make room", one way or the other,

for a growing human population which uses low-yield, traditional

agricultural methods and therefore requires much more land than if it

used high-yield, modern methods involving pesticides.

Elephants and gorillas, among others, are always losing habitat to

humans.

We know that occasionally birds and other non-human animals

accidentally eat the pesticides and are killed by them.

The question is: what kills more non-human animals, pesticides or the