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ARISE Campaign: Animal Replacements Innovate Scientific Experiments
Dear friends,
NJ Animal Rights Alliance is pleased to announce the creation and kick-
off of the ARISE campaign. The mission of ARISE (Animal Replacements
Innovate Scientific Experimentation) is to educate the public
regarding the unnecessary and often disastrous effects of relying on
animals for drug testing, chemical toxicity and product testing and
for dissection - and to promote ground breaking and powerful new tools
and techniques that will create better science, are more effective and
will saves lives, both human and animal alike.
Our message will be carried through our completely recreated and
redesigned website, www.AskUsWhy.com, our accompanying literature and
healthy/compassionate living guides, and our schedule of lectures and
tabling events.
If you see an opportunity for ARISE to speak at an event, let us know.
If you know a student who does not want to dissect animals, call us -
we are here to offer our assistance. You can call us anytime at
732-561-4642 or email us: arise@askuswhy.com
ARISE has already taken the initiative; on March 31, we attended an
Environmental Protection Agency hearing in Washington D.C. regarding
an animal toxicity testing mandate. You can read our testimony in its
entirety here: http://www.askuswhy.com/epa.html
You’ll also find on our new website the following sections and more:
Animal Replacements: With the acknowledgement that animals are poor
substitutes for humans, and with national and international support
and funding, pioneering animal replacements are being turned into
reality.
We Give Them Names - They Give Them Numbers: A parallel view of the
animals we love and the animals that scientists experiment upon.
Special Reports: ARISE investigative reports on animal experimentation
issues.
SOS - Saving OurSelves: While promoting and utilizing human-centric
scientific research is critical to finding cures, each of us can play
a significant role in saving our own lives, through lifestyle change
and healthy living.
Cruelty Free Living: One of the simplest and most direct ways that you
can impact and reduce animal testing is to purchase products that are
not tested on animals.
Elect Not to Dissect: NJ students have the right under law to choose
not to dissect animals.
Rise to their Defense: Educate yourself and take action to help save
lives and improve science for all of us.
“Consider just one stark statistic: Today, nine out of 10 compounds
developed in the lab fail in human studies. They fail, in large part
because they behave differently in people than they did in animal or
laboratory tests.” Andrew C. von Eschenbach, Acting Commissioner of
Food and Drugs, Jan. 12, 2006
This is the question we will put to the public; do you trust something
that has a 90% failure rate - or is there a better way?
ARISE is here to help create that better way.
Sincerely,
Stuart Chaifetz
Program Director, The ARISE Campaign
PO Box 174 Englishtown, NJ 07726
732 561 4642
Posted on SHARE Yahoo Group - May 28, 2009