Last weekend, Governor Arnold Schwareneggar signed the AB2296, Researcher Protection Act, which
enacts a number of measures to protect researchers from attacks by animal rights extremists and others. This bill was supported by the University of California system and was introduced by Assembly Member Gene Mullin (D – South San Francisco).
UC President, Mark G. Yudof said:
“University of California researchers are leaders in scientific and technological breakthroughs that are enhancing the lives of Californians and all Americans. This law will provide law enforcement with some of the tools necessary to help protect academic researchers so they can continue to perform ground-breaking research without the threat of violence. I want to publicly thank Governor Schwarzenegger, the Legislature and particularly Assemblymember Mullin for their leadership on this important legislation, which sends a strong message of California’s support for academic research and innovation and its unwillingness to tolerate violence against researchers or their families.”
statement.
The new law makes it a misdemeanor to publish information about an academic researcher and his or her family, with the intent that another person commit a crime involving violence or the threat of violence; and it makes it a misdemeanor to trespass on the property of an academic researcher with the intent of chilling or interfering with their academic freedom.
AB2296 is particularly important given the firebombings at the homes of two UC Santa Cruz researchers in August. The bill does not single out animal researchers, however, and could help any academic facing threats or violent harassment as a result of his or her work.
Thanks
Andy
Please Readers ( May, as well, be informative for the site moderators),
See both sides of this debate before aligning your focus with specialties interests for our entrusted funds. (Tax $, EndTheFed.com )
If there are test methods, to scientifically validate new prescriptions/cosmetics, that are less expensive, more relevant, accurate & forthcoming than vivisection and which are ways of facilitating consumer’s safety whilst not creating assured misery for abject species….why resist?
Other research methods are better (see: http://www.navs.org ) and are being used by hundreds of companies who switched when urged by concerned consumer groups (peaceable AR activists) and by scientists who are also, unreservedly, studious about compassionate values.
The media and politicians approach to this topic has rarely not been with the steamrolling momentum of excessive wealth pushing that stagnant and harmful science forward.
The science that allots their mansions in the hills is being financed by the tax dollars of honest and considerate people who probably are sincerely conscientious to their best. Our scientific advancement is being hijacked and patented by capital gains and the corporate pseudo entity with no soul or accountability.
What if penicillin was tested with a vivisection method. Had they put penicillin to today’s required FDA animal test before going to human trials there would now be a mishap because penicillin is toxic and fatal to rats. Do politicians have an ear for anyone other than corporate lobbyists anymore? Do those lobbyists contain the potency to earn an honest living in the interest of common wealth and jump on board with groups like NORML or anyone seeking and sharing miraculous news in medicine.
Science, in the arenas of diet and exercise, has been affirming ancient solutions to the daunting plethora of ailments that the modern era “embraces”. I used that term as an anecdote here because what is done through proper consumption, cultivation and exertion can naturally bestow well-being, purpose and happiness to us all. Yoga, Tai Chi, Capoeira, Qi Gong, Ayurveda, Holistic & Naturopathic health practices are just some of the traditional roots that invigorate and refresh our essence of life while composting the unloveliness of physiology. We can live disease free, naturally, and resources are as truly inexhaustible as the term implies.
Currently, in our social evolution biodynamic reformation from agribusiness is an optimally outreaching solution. A joyously sustainable space age of empathetic entities who know the record of these times may extend beyond our horizon. They’ll thank the trailblazers of ethical conscience who now strive to ease & end every variety of abusive or exploitative treatment.
These comments are all meant to provoke you to stand morally identified or blow another breeze through the trees wherever your roots grasp our life source & home world, Earth.
Our destiny is to endlessly seek whatever is not, but we believe aught to be. A choice of compassionate boundaries to “progressive” expansion has the effect of aligning, in an understanding that “one can be great, yet not overpower”, just as we like life to align for us. Like the axiom that “So as I do, all is returned unto.” and if I suffered less and never recognized agony around me, then in naivety, my sense of wonder would now be abused.
As a “decider” of a mere dwindling bit in the overruling and manipulation of oneself, a relinquished auto-determinism in a capitalized & debt/credit economy, choosing who we are (literally, as one can choose organic or industrialized goods) in our consumption is that last hope. We are powerful enough to begin reducing and abnegating unfathomable despair in every possible way, Go Vegan!
The overall misdirection of this website is going to be looked back upon in gross lamentation by our ascendant generations (Not decedents, when we leap for an immortal extraterrestrial sustenance, how obviously, that old way of downward vision was such a lolly gag?).