MOD Walkathon photos March of Dimes, vivisectors
Help ACT demonstrate and leaflet at this year's event. Leafleting at this event is very easy and very productive. Most people are shocked to hear about this waste of their money. Along with our leafleting, we do a small demonstration when the walk begins. An airplane banner flyover is also done to let the participants know that the March of Dimes is doing these disturbing and wasteful experiments. Call now to volunteer, 214-373-7867. To donate to a responsible charity, see PeTA's list.
ACT supports Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in their fight to stop animal testing being performed by the March of Dimes. From a PCRM leaflet: "The March of Dimes should be putting all its resources into human population studies to track down the causes of birth defects and into prenatal education and care to prevent them. But, in fact, the charity has given millions of dollars to experimenters who give nicotine, cocaine, or alcohol to animals, even though we already know from human clinical experience that these substances can harm a developing baby. Other March of Dimes-funded experiments have involved sewing closed the eyes of kittens - experiments the charity denied having funded but was later forced to admit. The same experimenter is apparently still on the payroll, recently publishing a paper describing deliberate brain damage and freezing of newborn ferrets. Another series of March of Dimes experiments focused on inducing the premature birth of lambs, revealing nothing not already seen in human observations. Recently, the March of Dimes joined the tobacco industry in funding nicotine experiments. The experimenter gave nicotine to rats and then forced them to run through mazes, motivated by either hunger or fear of drowning. In some cases, the rats' brains were deliberately damaged for the experiments. In others, rats were given drugs to magnify fear and stress. The "WalkAmerica" fund-raisers are held nationwide in late April.
I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.
Dr. Charles Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic
Video and audio of one of our March of Dimes leafleting experiences.
