Save
the Newchurch Guinea Pigs Campaign
Together, the animal
rights movement saved the Consort Beagles and the Hillgrove Cats. Now we have
the chance to save the Newchurch Guinea pigs.
The activists who bravely
raided the Darley Oaks hell hole and carried their little furry bundles to safety
managed to save six hundred lives, but there are many thousands more guinea
pigs still imprisoned in there, overcrowded, distressed and waiting to be sold
for gruesome experiments.
Guinea pigs are not
as 'loveable' as cats and dogs in most people's eyes. They are not as intelligent
and they don't bond with humans in the same way, but they are just as sensitive
and as capable of experiencing pain and suffering. This is what really matters.
Guinea pigs are unusual,
exotic animals. They are lively, inquisitive and playful. They like to live
in small herds, burying themselves in undergrowth, constantly on the move, exploring
and chattering to each other in their complex language. They are gentle and
affectionate and care deeply for their young. The barren cages at Darley Oak
provide them with nothing to live for. They have little space, no privacy, stimulation
and every moment of their lives is filled with stress. No wonder the death rate
at Darley Oaks is so high.
The animal rights movement
exists to stamp out suffering and exploitation of non-humans. We must not allow
our critics to accuse us of only fighting for cats, dogs and primates - we must
fight equally hard for these guinea pigs. We owe it to them and to our movement
as a whole. This campaign is just as important to the animal rights movement
as the Shamrock Farm campaign is, and the Hillgrove and Consort campaigns were.
Our efforts to end the
evil cancer of vivisection must include all species. We must demand and fight
for an end to ALL vivisection - not just an end to cat and dog experiments.
We have been given this
chance to drive another nail in the coffin of vivisection and save thousands
of little lives in the process.
Dealers
in Death
David Hall and Partners
breed albino guinea pigs for vivisection. They are based at two sites at Darley
Oaks Farm, Newchurch, Nr Burton-on-Trent, Staffs. Tel: 01283 575321.
Hidden away in sheds
at the back of these sites there are over 10,000 guinea pigs bred to be used
in horrific, useless experiments in vivisection laboratories.
After a raid on the
farm by concerned campaigners, video coverage taken in the sheds shows a high
mortality rate amongst the guinea piglets, with evidence of distressed mothers
killing and eating their young.
The pens were filthy
and full of excrement, with the paper work being taken from the farm explaining
that the pens, containing 9 females to 1 male, are only cleaned once a week.
These 'stock pens',
where the guinea pigs are bred from for 20-22 months unless 'mothering quality
or litter sizes determine they should be culled', and where many of the guinea
pigs spend their entire lives, are just 5ft x 2ft. That is the amount of space
they think is suitable for 10 adults and as many as 24 young at any one time.
Within these prisons there is nowhere for the guinea pigs to pursue their natural
behaviour of hiding, foraging and burrowing. There are so many guinea pigs dying
in this hellhole that the bodies have to be removed on a daily basis.
Once sent to laboratories
the guinea pigs can be expected to be blinded, maimed, scalded or poisoned all
for the profit and 'scientific progress'. This alleged scientific progress could
have caused the death of millions of people if penicillin had been tested on
guinea pigs, as penicillin kills guinea pigs.
For further information
on how you can help save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs, contact - Save the Newchurch
Guinea Pigs, PO Box 74, Evesham, Worcs. WR11 5WF. Tel: 01902 564734.