animal welfare act violations, national primate liberation week, chattel

WHAT IS WRONG WITH OHSU?: SCREENING OF “CHATTEL”

SATURDAY OCTOBER 16TH, 7:00P

5TH AVE. CINEMA, 510 SW Hall St

“Chattel” is a documentary film about the animal research industry and the movements to abolish it.

The film will be followed by a discussion, facilitated by the Animal Defense League, on the current state of OHSU and the campaigns to stop its primate testing program.

Sponsored by the Student Animal Liberation Coalition- salcpsu@gmail.com

This event will be in conjunction with Animal Defense League's week of action against the Oregon National Primate Research Center, part of National Primate Liberation Week.
Over 70,000 primates (rhesus monkeys, baboons, squirrel monkeys, chimpanzees, etc.) are experimented on every year in the United States. Many thousands of primates are also imprisoned in labs for breeding and conditioning. Recent USDA statistics reveal that over 124,000 primates are held captive in U.S. laboratories.

Many of these primates experience horrible conditions. Recent government documentation has revealed primates dying of dehydration, starvation, hypothermia, heat stress, being boiled alive in cage washers, wasting diseases, hepatitis, encephalitis, and many other severe illnesses.

National Primate Liberation Week will take place October 16th – October 24th. Please help fight for the chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, spider monkeys, marmosets, lemurs, squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, and all the other innocent primates confined in laboratories. Help us end their abuse!

In Portland, we will be targeting OHSU's National Primate Research Center, which houses over 4,200 primates and has been fined for numerous USDA violations of the Animal Welfare Act.