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SDAA and LCA Offer a $20,000 Reward for the Animal Cruelty Conviction of Researchers at Salk Insitute's LaboratoriesWednesday, May 31, 2006San Diego Animal Advocates A news conference to release details of the offer is being held on Monday, January 5 in front of the Salk Institute (10010 No. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla) at 12:00 noon. We will also offer a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to official sanctions and termination of grants and research projects at Salk for animal abuse. These rewards are necessary to expose the truth because employees are threatened with loss of their jobs. "Salk officials have refused to meet with us to discuss the information we received," says Chris De Rose, President of Last Chance for Animals. "So now we are going directly to the employees who are witnessing this cruelty and asking them to help us expose it." De Rose, the nationally known actor turned activist, has successfully prosecuted B dealers who sell animals to research facilities. Jane Cartmill of San Diego Animal Advocates expressed concern over the recent $7 million donation by Irwin Jacobs to Salk’s neurosciences division. "Brain-mapping experiments are among the most devastating to animals and involve tremendous deprivation and suffering," she stated. Primate experimentation is believed to involve some 100,000 animals nationwide. If you are an employee or researcher at the Salk Institute and have information that might help, please e-mail us at tips@animaladvocates.org, or call SDAA at 760-943-0330 or LCA at 310-271-6096. Please help us to expose the abuse of animals in laboratories. |