VIVISECTION BREEDERS WEEK OF ACTION - LEEDS DEMO'S

Friday, 25th September

Eight activists from West Yorkshire Animal Rights Group today held demos in support of the global week of action against vivisection breeders.

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, WORSLEY BUILDING
First stop was the Worsley Building at the University of Leeds (Clarendon Way, Leeds, LS2 9LU) where beagle dogs and rodents are bred and experimented on in barbaric tests. We held placards outside the entrance and used megaphones to great effect in letting passers by know about what was going on on the top floors of the building; leaflets were also given to students and members of the public. Security staff came down, however acted in a dignified manner and left us too it.

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, MIALL BUILDING
Next stop was the Miall Building, where the management of the University of Leeds breeding unit have their offices, along with some of the top vivisectors. UoL own an intensive farm near Tadcaster where pigs are bred for use in research and sheep have also been sent to laboratories across the country from there. Sheep from the site are also used in agriculture research by the university where port holes are put into their sides so the effects on their digestive system can be observed, rodents are also used in the Miall Building in experimentation. Leaflets were given out, chants echoed around on the megaphones and passers by also took information.

COVANCE
Last stop was Covance's Leeds office (Springfield House, Hyde Street, Leeds, LS2 9NG Tel: 0113 237 3500). Covance are the one of
the largest breeders of animals for vivisection in the world, with their subsidiary Covance Research Products who breed beagles, ferrets, rabbits and rodents. They also own a 48% share stake in Noveprim who capture wild primates on Mauritius to send to laboratories globally, alongside Charles River. Chants of "Thousands of animals dying in pain, Covance killers are to blame" echoed around the area from the two megaphones and an important meeting was being held inside, with those attending looking at the demo.

West Yorkshire Animal Rights Group
Email - westyorksanimalrights@hushmail.com
Web - www.westyorkshireanimalrights.wordpress.com