Nashville: Protest Cruel Experiments on Mice and Rats!
Schedule
Thu Oct 06 2022 at 11:45 am
Location
708 Demonbreun St, Nashville, TN 37203-3940, United States | Nashville, TN
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Please join local PETA supporters to urge the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC) to stop torturing animals in cruel experiments in attempts to make human health claims for marketing blueberries to consumers. PETA has urged the Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit what amounts to an exorbitant “tax” on farmers, who must pay hundreds of millions in annual fees to agricultural commodity research and promotion boards (known as “checkoffs”)—like the USHBC, and others—which use some of these funds for deadly animal tests. Some of these experiments supported by the checkoffs involve douching, poisoning, force-feeding, starving, irradiating, bleeding, suffocating, beheading, and dissecting animals.
The USHBC funded an experiment in which rats were fed strawberries or blueberries then forced to perform a series of psychomotor and cognitive tests (including grabbing wires while suspended, walking and balancing on accelerating rotating rods, and swimming in a maze). They were repeatedly injected with a chemical then killed and dissected.
These tests are neither applicable to humans nor required by law. Importantly, animals are scientifically unfit for human food research in part because of the vast physiological differences between species.
HERE ARE THE DETAILS:
WHEN: Thursday, October 6th from 11:45AM to 1PM (Outside of the hotel)
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM (At this time they will be holding the USHBC Health Research and Nutrition Committee conference. The location of this conference is: Mossy Ridge A, Level 3.)
WHERE: Embassy Suites by Hilton Nashville Downtown Hotel (please see this map: https://goo.gl/maps/btRPy72w9yj3jgGE9)
CONTACT: Tricia Lebkuecher, [email protected]
All materials (such as posters and leaflets) will be provided.
Please dress sharp in black bottoms and a black PETA t-shirt (we will provide one if you don’t already own one). Looking uniform helps our message come across much stronger!
Please refrain from bringing dogs as there may not be shade or a safe place for them to lie down during the protest.
Note that reserved parking will not be available, and please be prepared for the weather. Outreach events are a fun and effective way to help animals as well as meet local advocates, so be sure to invite others!
For more information, please visit:
https://www.peta.org/action/produce-farmers-forced-fund-animal-tests/
https://prime.peta.org/news/animal-suffering-the-not-so-super-ingredient-in-superfoods/
Please join us to demand that the USHBC stop tormenting animals in crude tests!
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Where is it happening?
708 Demonbreun St, Nashville, TN 37203-3940, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: