Pétition contre l'Université Monash (Australie)

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Monash University conducts completely unecessary live experiments on rabbits as part of it’s undergrad science class, but you can make them stop.

Animal Liberation Victoria was contacted in early 2007 by distressed students from Monash University's third year undergraduate science course.

Students were being instructed to perform experiments on live unconscious rabbits which included:

Restraining the rabbits on a work table, with their paws and teeth tied to anchor points
Cutting open the rabbits' throats with unsterilised instruments and inserting a tube into their wind pipe
Administering various chemicals into their blood stream to observe the effect on the rabbits' heart rate
At the end of the class, the rabbits were given a lethal overdose and discarded in a rubbish bin.

Undercover footage was then recorded from inside the clasroom (click here to view the footage) using a hidden camera.
http://www.alv.org.au/storyarchive/0802monash/monashrabbits.php

The students were given the option of watching a video about the procedure instead of taking part, and therefore an alternative to this senseless killing is plainly available. In fact, we believe these experiments are illegal, as the code of practice governing animal experiments in educaction states that alternatives must be used wherever possible.

Monash has refused to stop the experiments, and in a self-contradictory letter to ALV, Professor Richard Larkins, Vice Chancellor and President of Monash, admitted that students could choose to watch a video instead of taking part and that they would not be penalised or disadvantaged by doing so, and yet also claimed that there were no viable alternatives to the use of the rabbits and that the experiments were necessary!

Monash has subsequently received negative media attention and criticism about this issue in a recent article by The Age - Click here to view the article.



Band member Adalita from Magic Dirt recently voiced her opposition to the Monash experiments by posing for ALV's latest poster to be used as part of our campaign.

And JJJ radio personality Lindsay McDougall, band member of Frenzel Rhomb, has lent his support and voice talents to our undercover video as narrator.

When considering this issue, it's helpful to transpose a human into the role of the rabbit: What would we do if humans were being used in classroom experiments? Would we be content to allow students to mutilate, experiment upon and discard human subjects? Of course not, yet rabbits, who are intelligent, sentient beings, capable of joy and suffering, are seen as mere replaceable commodities.

It's important that you voice your opposition to these experiments to Monash University.

Please use the links to the right - "Tell them to stop!" - and send an email demanding that this terrible waste of life ends.

http://www.alv.org.au/storyarchive/0802monash/monashrabbits.php

CLIQUEZ SUR: Click here to open a prewritten email
that you can send to Monash Uni.