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Animal Rights

Animal rights recognizes that all animals have an inherently equal right to a life free from pain and suffering, which cannot be negotiated upon the whim of another being.

This innate right cannot be ignored due to the intelligence, appearance or supposed ‘usefulness’ of the animal in question.

All sentient beings, whether human or non-human, exist for their own reasons and deserve to live natural lives without suffering persecution and abuse by those more powerful than themselves.

Non-human animals were not created to be exploited by the greed and cruelty perpetuated throughout our society.

They are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment or experimentation.

There is no excuse for animal abuse.

Essex Animal Freedom actively campaign to end animal abuse within Essex and arrange transport to actions throughout the country.

If you are able to help with any of our campaigns please do not hesitate to contact us.

VIVISECTION

Vivisection (animal experimentation) is the practice of systematically torturing live animals by incarcerating, poisoning, irradiating, burning, freezing, gassing, shocking, drugging, infecting, mutilating, cutting, blinding and dismembering them, amongst other sickening excuses for ‘science’.

Vivisection is not only bloody science, it is a bloody fraud.

Animal tests are unethical, archaic and unreliable; harming animals and humans alike.

Due to the multitude of biomechanical differences between animals and humans it is impossible to extrapolate data from one species and apply it to another.

For instance:

Morphine calms humans, but causes excitement in cats and mice.
Aspirin causes birth defects in cats and dogs, but not in people.
Penicillin is a useful antibiotic in humans, but kills guinea pigs.
Strychnine is deadly poison for humans, but not for monkeys or guinea pigs.
A high dose of Belladonna will kill humans, but is harmless for rabbits and goats.

Animals also do not suffer from the same ailments and diseases as humans and these naturally and spontaneously occurring illnesses cannot be recreated within them.

Human diseases develop due to a number of unknown factors, so vivisectors instead attempt to recreate (e.g. applying electric shocks to animals in an attempt to cause a fit, similar to those suffered by epileptics) and subsequently suppress similar symptoms to the ones resulting from human disorders, which can never be expected to cure the original human illness.

The reliance upon this outdated form of experimentation is holding back true medical progress and leading to thousands of human deaths each year due to adverse drug reactions.

Visit http://www.safermedicines.org/ to learn more about this mockery of science and the alternatives available.

Medications aside, a large number of these barbaric experiments are in fact conducted in order to test the ‘safety’ of chemicals used within household products, cosmetics, food etc.

Useless tests are also routinely conducted upon a range of substances, regardless of whether the results are already know e.g. forcing animals to smoke cigarettes, although smoking is known to be harmful.

Experiments are also carried out purely to fulfil the macabre interest of the pseudo-scientists involved, with no application to humans intended.

For instance, the especially cruel ‘maternal deprivation’ tests performed on rhesus monkeys:

In one experiment, the newborn rhesus monkeys were presented with surrogate ‘monster mothers’ made of cloth, which the terrified baby monkeys would cling to. The temperature of the ‘mothers’ would then be changed from near-freezing to near-burning, often causing the death of those infants known for their high sensitivity. Those who survived would just cling tighter to their ‘mother’, even when it ejected high-pressure compressed air that almost blew the infants’ skin off their body. These frightened, tormented monkeys were then presented with ‘porcupine monster mothers’ that would eject sharp brass spikes, which would impale the baby monkeys that still persisted in desperately clinging to their only source of ‘comfort’. Any babies who survived would withdraw to a corner in despair and remain motionless until they died of what the laboratory veterinarian diagnosed as ‘a broken heart’.

For the animals and for ourselves, we must abolish vivisection.

- SPEAK

The campaign against the Oxford animal lab

http://www.speakcampaigns.org/

EAF attend weekly demonstrations each Thursday at the site of the newly built vivisection laboratory in Oxford.

We also regularly travel to Oxford to participate in Degree Day and Open Day demonstrations, amongst others.

- SHAC

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty

Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is the largest contract testing laboratory in Europe. They have about 70,000 animals on site, including rabbits, cats, hamsters, dogs, guinea-pigs, birds and monkeys. These animals are destined to suffer and die in cruel, useless experiments.

HLS will test anything for anybody. They carry out experiments which involve poisoning animals with household products, pesticides, drugs, herbicides, food colourings and additives, sweeteners and genetically modified organisms. Every three minutes an animal dies inside Huntingdon totalling 500 innocent lives every single day.

Huntingdon Life Sciences is the most exposed laboratory in the world. In recent years they have been infiltrated and exposed at least seven separate times for disgusting animal cruelty and rule breaking. Each time horrific evidence of animal abuse and staff incompetence has been uncovered, including workers punching beagle puppies in the face.

http://www.shac.net/

EAF proudly support national demonstrations and arrange protests at local targets.

With the increasing oppression of legal protest and the intimidation, harassment and suppression of SHACtivists, it is more important than ever that we show the authorities that we will not be silenced and will continue to fight until the hell hole HLS is finally closed.

FUR

If you know of anywhere in Essex selling real fur please contact us.

Each year approximately 50 million animals are killed around the world for their fur.
A lifetime of suffering in cramped cages or the agony and torture of being caught from the wild by a leghold trap, followed with death by anal or vaginal electrocution, gassing or having their throats slit - just to satisfy human greed and vanity.

www.caft.org.uk

CIRCUSES

Please visit http://www.captiveanimals.org/circuses for information on circus animal suffering.

- The (not so) ‘Great’ British Circus

Whilst this cruel circus is in Essex we will continue to hold regular protests against them.

The results of a 2009 undercover investigation by Animal Defenders International (ADI) showed circus elephants being hit in the face, being kept chained and barely able to move for up to 11 hours a day, and displaying disturbed, abnormal behaviour.

ADI secured footage from a camera concealed inside the elephant tent of the Great British Circus, which showed a staggeringly high level of casual violence in just a few days of observations. Incidents included elephants being hit in the face with a metal elephant hook, a broom and a pitchfork, a worker cruelly twisting an elephant’s tail, and the frightened animals retreating and crying out when struck or hooked.

They also filmed two elephant hooks being brutally used; a long metal hook was used to hit an elephant across the face during training and a smaller one which was concealed in the palm of the hand and used in the ring, unseen by the unsuspecting audience. ADI footage in slow motion showed the elephants reacting and sometimes crying out when the hook was used.

In addition to the casual violence, the elephants were also limited for long periods of the day in a small tent and chained tightly every night for up to eleven hours with only enough room to take one step forward or backwards.

Watch the footage for yourself:

Essex Animal Freedom

- Until every cage is empty

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