January 1, 2006

Lifeforce News:

Heart and Stroke Lottery Not Lucky for Animals

Some of the funds from the Heart and Stroke Foundation Research Lottery will be spent on painful, scientifically fallacious experiments on animals. These Heart and Stroke Foundations in BC and Ontario do not have any policy opposing experiments on animals. They continue to use “animal models”.

Researchers create "animal models" of heart and stroke injury to test drugs and other methodologies. However, they are not studying the actual human maladies and animals react differently to the methodologies tested. There are major biological and anatomical differences between animals and humans.

The Peer Review System and the pro-vivisection organizations such as the Canadian Council for Animal Care (CCAC) protect the vivisectors not the animals. The CCAC inspections are confidential and there are no bans on even the cruelest practices. Lifeforce is the only organization in Canada that has succeeded in laying cruelty to animal charges against researchers. Our 1984 case exposed the practice of restraining baboons for four months in experiments funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.

Please contact the Heart and Stroke Foundation at www.heartandstroke.ca to express your concerns. Go to their “Contact Us” to send an email. Please send Lifeforce a copy of their response.

For further information:
Lifeforce Foundation
Box 3117
Vancouver, BC
V6B 3X6
lifeforcesociety@hotmail.com
www.lifeforcefoundation.org

In experiments funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation the arteries of dogs are restricted to induce heart attacks/strokes.