Please contact all the members of the Israeli parliament and request that they fully support the law proposed by Yossi Sarid which would limit, reduce and halt many forms of animal experimentation in Israel - just copy and paste the e-mail addresses below in to a new e-mail message

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Member of Parliament
Haknesset
Jerusalem
Israel

Dear Member of Parliament,

I write to support Mr. Yossi Sarid's proposed legislation to ban animal experimentation for the purpose of educational training at schools and universities and for the development of household and cosmetic goods. As a member of the Israeli parliament, your influential status will help abolish futile research, such as the primate studies conducted at the Jerusalem Hebrew University. Roughly 150 non-human primates are now warehoused in Israeli laboratories. Mostly bred on primate farms such as the Mazor (BFC) in Israel, they are isolated in cramped cages from life to death. Like the others who are captured in Africa and exported for experimentation, they undergo invasive organ transplant procedures and brain research.

Animal experiments do not represent medical advancement -- they represent madness. Some researchers admit that it's impossible to extrapolate animal tests to humans, due to gaps between species. But as one stares into the blinking eyes of "Malish" (the two-year-old macaque monkey exposed in rare undercover footage inside Jerusalem Hebrew University) as researchers carve into his skull to implant electrodes into his brain -- one similarity becomes strikingly clear: In pain and terror, the animals are our equals.

A fully conscious Malish was forced to endure unimaginable misery for a frivolous study on cerebral memory activity. Post-surgery, Malish languished in a barren cage without drinking water. Over several months, he had to "earn" drinks by demonstrating his visual memory skills. This is reckless science, confirmed by a research technician who said: "We did all kinds of nonsense, simply so we can do something."

Animal tests don't allow for predictability. Researchers don't know which animals will mimic humans, until they know what a drug, chemical or disease does to humans first. Countless animal-to-human blunders have led to human hospitalization, disability or death. Several dozen Israeli physicians have already signed a petition that asks for a substantial decrease in animal studies and enhanced supervision within laboratories. This is progress. It opens the door to more viable research alternatives such as in-vitro cell and tissue cultures, sophisticated mathematical and computer models, virtual organs, artificial skin and corneas, etc.

I commend you for fighting to ban animal experiments in Israel. Your new law would establish a worldwide precedent of intolerance for legalized animal abuse within research laboratories.

Thank you,