Tell CIHR and NSERC to Kick Their Animal Research Habit
All federally funded research in Canada is paid for with your tax dollars. As the two main funders of animal-based research in Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council need to hear that you don’t want your tax dollars used to underwrite animal experiments, whatever their purpose.
Points to make:
• Animal experimentation is an inherently violent and unethical practice that I do not want my tax dollars used to support.
• Health and ecological effects research funding should be redirected to emphasize the use of epidemiological, clinical, in vitro and computer modeling studies in place of laboratory experiments on animals.
Send letters to:
Dr. Alan Bernstein
President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
410 Laurier Ave. W., 9th Floor
Address Locator 4209A, Ottawa, ON K1A 0W9
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Dr. Thomas A. Brzustowski
President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
350 Albert St. Ottawa, ON K1A 1H5
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Please send a copy of your letters to Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh and Prime Minister Stephen Harper (contact information below) and your Member of Parliament. To find out who your MP is, click here or call Elections Canada at 1.800.463.6868.
Minister of Health, House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 (no postage necessary if mailed in Canada) Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Prime Minister of Canada, House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 (no postage necessary if mailed in Canada) Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Here is how to contact your MPP to urge him or her to change this law, to ban ALL animal experimentation in Ontario, on ethical grounds that ALL captivity and experimentation is wrong:
http://www.ontariotenants.ca/government/mpp.phtml
