Berkeley Students Organize To Oppose Animal Testing

THERE ARE OVER 40,000 REASONS TO SAY NO TO ANIMAL RESEARCH AT UC BERKELEY.

According to the University Relations Office, over 40,000 animals are housed on the UC Berkeley campus for research purposes. Fifty percent are mice and forty percent are cold-blooded animals. Nine percent are other rodents, while the remaining one percent is comprised of non-human primates, cats, coyotes, hyenas, ferrets, rabbits, and invertebrates.

BOAA is a student organization dedicated to ending animal research at UC Berkeley. We believe that UC Berkeley should be held accountable to growing segments of both the public and academic communities who are aware that animal experimentation is unjust to its victims—unjust to the animals who are used, unjust to people who suffer as a result of vivisection's ineffectiveness, and unjust to taxpayers and students who subsidize this research.

Please join us and over 2,000 others in asking for cooperation from the UC Berkeley faculty and administration so that we as a community can make an informed decision in supporting more cost predictive, reliable, and humane research alternatives. This affords an opportunity for Berkeley to again stand at the forefront of a movement—the movement to replace unnecessary and unreliable animal research with humane alternatives.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~boaa/