Plain Talk: Animal rights folks were right about UW
Dave Zweifel | Capital Times editor emeritus
January 11, 2010

For years now, the UW-Madison has tried to portray a cadre of local folks who complain about its animal experiments as wackos.

Well it turns out that the local Alliance for Animals and other people who have been doing the complaining have been right about a lot of things.....

Read Zweifel's blistering editorial at Madison.com

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December 30, 2009
A rare joint federal investigation of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's animal research program found multiple federal animal welfare violations, which could potentially compromise the program's funding. Linda Eggert reports.

Read the USDA Inspection report here.

A print version with additional details by WISC TV's Linda Eggert is available here.

A follow up story by Channel3000.com reports on additional recent serious violations.

Read the Wiscosnisn State Journal's report here.

The NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) has issued its report. Watch Linda Eggert's report here.

 

SOLD OUT Our Second Annual Vegantines Dinner and Dance with special guest speaker Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, founder of CompassionateCooks.com and author of The Joy of Vegan Baking and The Vegan Table. Email us it you would like to be on a waiting pending any cancellations.

Linda Falkenstein showcases Patrick-Goudreau in Isthmus

 

 

Saturday, February 6, 2010
5:30 to 10:30
Madison's West Side Club, 437 County Road M, Madison
Cash bar, dinner, and dancing!
Semi-formal dress.

We will be honoring several Wisconsin notables with our coveted "Heart of" awards. Come rub elbows with this year's honorees:

Senator Fred Risser - Heart of Government
Eilene Ribbens, Wisconsin Puppy Mill Project - Heart of Wisconsin
Bill Lueders, Isthmus - Heart of Journalism
Dave Friedman, Madison Area Vegetarian Meetup Group - Heart of Madison

SOLD OUT

 

The title says it all. Hooray for longtime animal activist and actor Alicia Silverstone! Take a look at her lovely website, The Kind Life and her new book, The Kind Diet.

"The Kind Diet introduces irresistibly delicious food that satisfies on every level—it even includes amazing desserts to keep the most stubborn sweet tooth happy. Alicia also addresses the nutritional concerns faced by many who are new to a plant-based diet, and shows how to cover every nutritional base, from protein to calcium and beyond."

This book is getting rave reviews, so pick up a copy today.

 

Sign the petition!

"I have learned that Madison, Wisconsin is the monkey experimentation capital of the United States. I would like the City of Madison and/or Dane County to form a commission of experts and citizens to determine whether or not experimenting on monkeys is ethical."

Read recent Isthmus article, The Decompression of the Sheep, by Bill Lueders.

Not surprisingly (not at all), UW-Madison has claimed that it hasn't broken the law. Mr. Leuders makes short work of their lame dishonest defense. Check it out. District Attorney Blanchard says UW's argument is lame.
Read his reply to UW.

Read our original complaints to Blanchard, the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW), and our follow-up to OLAW here. Apparently, Blanchard is willing to turn a blind eye to the UW's law-breaking. Get involved today.

If you're thinking about purchasing a new or used bicycle, please do not shop at Budget Bicycle (three locations) or Machinery Row Bicycles. Owner Roger Charly swindled activists whom he had promised to sell a piece of real estate--between the UW's Primate Research Center and the Harry Harlow lab--for a handsome sum. He used his false promise to them to parlay a deal for $1,000,000 with the university.

One who values dollars over innocent lives and endless horrific suffering is not to be trusted. Shop elsewhere, please. Even, consider letting Charly know that you won't be shopping at his stores, and why.

Read recent stories:
UW Madison Expanding Primate Labs
Primate Center to Open Lab at UW