We want Belgium free from primate experiments!
Friday 6th of November saw Gateway to Hell activists in Belgium publicly launch a new initiative to stop all experiments on Non-Human Primates, (NHPs), in Belgium...and thus make Belgium the first country to entirely ban invasive primate research.
Whilst this initiative might initially seem unrealistic, there were only 38 procedures performed on primates in Belgium last year...and whilst that is still 38 procedures too many, that is 38 procedures that we can also stop permanently! The political will to ban experiments on NHPs in Belgium is there, with the responsible minister already having made a publc statement on the matter, and we intend to make good on that promise by removing the obstacles posed by the primate researchers.
The main culprits still involved in primate research here in Belgium are based at the Catholic University of Leuven, (KUL), where they perform utterly indefensible behavioural and psychological experiments on primates, so today we served the KUL notice that their disgusting research is going to be stopped!
Despite the unecessary repression that was imposed because the research facility is "in the proximity" of a hosptal, (which limited our protest to a roundabout in the middle of a busy road and banned us from using megaphones, despite the traffic noise being far louder than any of the activist's voices), our point was still clearly made.
At least 7 different media outlets in Belgium covered the protest, widely exposing the KUL as the primate killing monsters they are and putting the issue of primate experimentation in sharp focus here in Belgium, however this is just the start of the campaign.
Our message to the KUL is clear, your days of torturing monkeys are numbered!
We will fight you in the media, we will fight you in the political arena and we will fight you on the streets. Your name will be mud by the time we've finished with you and only one thing is for sure KUL...we will never back down until your sordid tests are stopped permanently and the monkeys you are abusing are free!
No rest for the wicked, No surrender for the animals!
G2H Belgium
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Please support our campaign to end primate experiments in Belgium by contacting the KUL to encourage them to do the right thing and stop testing on monkeys. Either send the sample letter below, (in Dutch), or write them something yourself but don't forget to add your name at the bottom.
Emails:--
Marc.Vervenne@rec.kuleuven.be, Peter.Janssen@med.kuleuven.be,
rik.vandenberghe@uz.kuleuven.ac.be, patrick.dupont@med.kuleuven.be,
philip.joris@med.kuleuven.be, Guy.Orban@med.kuleuven.be,
Rufin.Vogels@med.kuleuven.be, Marc.VanHulle@med.kuleuven.be,
Wim.Vanduffel@med.kuleuven.be
Sample Letter:--
Geachte,
via het VRT programma Koppen vernam ik dat u apen gebruikt in uw laboratorium Gasthuisberg te Leuven. Ik heb in dit programma gehoord hoe u en KUL hierover denken en ben hierover geschokt.
Dat een katholieke universiteit die pretendeert vernieuwend te zijn en respect te hebben voor leven nog steeds verouderde technieken zoals dierproeven gebruikt, is een echte schande.
Er zijn ondertussen genoeg alternatieven voor dierproeven, dat zeggen ook gerespecteerde organisaties zoals Artze gegen Tierversüche
(www.aerzte-gegen-tierversuche.de). Ik stel voor dat u met hen eens contact opneemt om u te helpen de 21ste eeuw binnen te treden.
Alleszins steun ik de acties van de dierenrechtenorganisatie Anti Dierproeven Coalitie tegen uw praktijken.
Hoogachtend,
***YOUR NAME GOES HERE***
