Three Days of Demos

3 -5 May 2012

Activists manned an information stall outside the Sheldonion Theatre, complete with a life sized model of a rabbit undergoing heart surgery – the type of experiment Oxford University researchers carry out on the rabbits unlucky enough to end up imprisoned one of their labs. This hard hitting model always gets a lot of attention due to the realism of it. In fact many people have had to touch it to convince themselves that it is just a model and that it’s not real.

Discussions were held with a wide variety of people, some were against vivisection, others wanted to talk about the science, several were students studying science subjects. One man admitted to working inside the lab on South Parks Road and was very free with the information he shared with the SPEAK supporters about goes on inside the lab - including how animals are frequently found dead in their cages when these are sent to be cleaned.

Every time SPEAK holds an information stall it’s astonishing just how many people are still unaware that animal experimentation laboratories exist, let alone what is happening to the animals inside them. This is why it is so important to get out there as often as possible, in order to educate and inform about the millions of animals who suffer and die just inside British laboratories.

 It doesn’t have to be this way and it shouldn’t be this way, which is why SPEAK will continue to campaign against the barbaric animal experiments carried out by Oxford University.