Heppner gazette-times., August 24, 1972, Centennial Edition, Image 56

Heppner Gazette-Times, Aug. 24,1972
YET AHOTHER VOICE
Replacement NOW
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Tb lorol and trusting friend of man. a
helpleu and uncomprehending victim of
remoriele experimenter. Such tortur de
grades those who are retponmlblt far it:
even if wt ourselve are innocent we or
morally guilty tf we do not rat eur oic
in protest
What is neded in biomedical research
, is education and training. This does not
reauire legislation. It can be and should
be provided by the stroke of pen as an
' administrative act.
The following proposals would not only
unirrade biomedical research but would
also save millions of animals. Funds al
ready allocated to the Department of1
Health, Education and Welfare for bio
medical research would be used to moder-,
, nize the education and training of the
researchers. The amount saved by elim
inating the need to produce and maintain
' millions of laboratory animals and to con
struct and maintain laboratory animal
, housing alone would pay for the proposed
upgrading of research and education
many times over. Scientists themselves
'would benefit, because the money now
being wasted on laboratory animals
.would go directly to them for using and
developing more economical, effective,
and humane research methods.
Under these proposals, qualified teams
of scientists would be set up to develop,
i non-animal-using alternatives for each
research proposal involving live animals,
and animal experimenters would be edu
cated and trained on-the-job in the use
of these methods. Cash incentive awards -
'would be offered for the continued de
velopment of non-animal-using research
methods.
Good Shepherd Foundation
133 Van Norman Road
Montebello, Cal. 90640
Pd. Adv. by Lois Winchester
JUNIQR PUDGE
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OhrtriU p Adv. by Lois Winchester
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They Die For Fur, "Sport
Steel jaw traps are vise like, spring driven clamps which snap shut, often with
bone-crushinq force, on the legs or paws ot tnousanos or dnimni yea-jy.
! u s , PREVENT THIS BY WEARING ZJet3J
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To any person with normal sensibili
ties and a share of compassion, the acti
vity of trapping, which invariably causes
hours and in many cases, days of un
speakable suffering and terror for harm
less wild animals, can hardly be con
sidered a wholesome sport.
As for pitting a trapper's skill and
wits against that of the wild animal, it
reminds one of a stacked deck or loaded
dice, and besides, the odds are indecent
man's passing gratification on the one
hand and the animal's life on the other,
with a lot of slow torture thrown in.
Discussing trapping as a sport, Dr.
Ashley Montagu, distinguished social an-
Courtesy Monterey County S.P.C.A.
thropologist, in a letter offered as an ex
hibit in the hearings on trapping before
a committee of the New Jersey Legisla
ture, had this to say: "... Sport is play
in which one rejoices in the fun of the
game and the victory of the winner
whoever he may be, but in no sense can
be conceived to involve the infliction of
the least harm upon another. To en
courage such cruelty in children in the
name of sport, or for that matter in the
name of anything else, is to engage in
the development of unfeeling people
who will regard this kind of 'sport' and
violent conduct as a normal part of life,
whereas it is, in fact, a disorder and di-
Pd. Adv.
sease of the mind."
INTERNATIONAL DEFENDERS OF ANIMALS, INC.
Colorado Branch
449 North 18th Street Grand Junction, Colorado 81501
by Lois Winchester