NASA to persist in useless, but cruel, animal radiation tests
Because of drastic biological differences between species, radiation experiments on monkeys won’t tell scientists anything about how astronauts will react to deep space.
NASA Plans to Expose Monkeys to Radiation, ALLVOICES, By StevieNicoleDow Washington : DC : USA | Jul 07, 2010 NASA has announced that it plans to fund a $1.75 million project in which up to 30 squirrel monkeys will be exposed to a very large, harmful dose of radiation and then be locked in steel cages without any companionship. They will be forced to endure years of behavioral tests to measure the inevitable devastation that the radiation causes to their brains and bodies, which would likely include brain damage, skin inflammation, blindness, various types of cancer, including brain tumors, and premature death. Continue reading
People of conscience resist the nuclear threat
We the people of conscience therefore exercise the right of every citizen of this republic and this planet to peacefully resist the nuclear threat; attacking as it does every core concept of human rights.
(USA) Declaration of Independence from Nuclear Weapons – Salem-News.Com,,Eileen Fleming, Jul-05-2010 36 arrested at Y-12 National Security Complex. (OAK RIDGE, Tenn.) – Priests and nuns, atheists, anarchist and one clown were among the 23 arrested by the State and 13 by the Federal Government for nonviolently resisting Nuclear Weapons at Y-12 on 5 July 2010. Continue reading
Cruel and unnecessary radiation experiments on monkeys
Dr. Marge Peppercorn, a retired pediatrician from Sudbury and a member of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, said the experiment, proposed by McLean researcher Dr. Jack Bergman, would yield little useful information and would cost $1.75 million. She said any information from the experiment would provide little evidence of the actual impact of space radiation on astronauts on a deep space mission.
Protesters at Belmont’s McLean Hospital call experiment animal cruelty – Belmont, MA – Belmont Citizen-Herald, By Christian Schiavone Belmont Citizen-Herald, Jun 10, 2010 Belmont, Mass. —About 50 demonstrators held signs outside McLean Hospital for more than an hour Thursday urging the hospital to cancel its plans to participate in an experiment to study the effects of radiation on monkeys… Continue reading
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals rally against monkey radiation experiments
PETA protests BNL monkey research, Long Island Business News, by Claude Solnik June 22, 2010 , NASAPlans to expose monkeys to high levels of radiation at Brookhaven National Laboratory have prompted concerns from advocates who argue the research is cruel and could be done by other means.Protesters from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals today rallied outside BNL, where NASA is planning to fund a $1.75 million experiment by a Harvard-affiliated researcher……………..
PETA argues NASA’s European counterpart – the European Space Agency – has stated it “declines any interest in monkey research and does not consider any need or use for such result.”
PETA contends NASA instead could conduct studies using human tissue and simulators that would “yield results relevant to humans, something that animal experiments cannot do.”
NASA’s cruel monkey experiments to be shamed
PETA ‘TREKKIES’ TO CRASH NASA’S ‘STAR TREK LIVE’ OPENING TO PROTEST AGENCY’S RADIATION EXPERIMENTS ON MONKEYSAs Stage Show Debuts, Group Will Call On NASA to Allow Animals to ‘Live Long and Prosper’ Dressed as “Trekkies,” PETA members will greet visitors to the Kennedy Space Center on Friday and call on NASA to pull its funding for cruel and crude radiation experiments on monkeys. Continue reading
Doctors oppose radiation experiments on squirrel monkeys
Mules used to detect radiation in nuclear test area
….The mules will spend their days carrying “a gamma scanner..that will register gamma energy emitted by radioactive material……”
Cute Animals Sent to Check Dangers of Former Nuclear Site : Disasters : Curbed LA, by Adrian Glick Kudler, 14 May 2010, First kids, and now animals are taking the weight of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory mess on their shoulders. Continue reading
2 million youth back Buddhist call for Nuclear Weapons Convention
Two Million Youth Call for Nuclear Weapon-Free World, By Soka Gakkai NEW YORK, May 12, 2010 – On May 11, a petition of 2,276,167 signatures from youth calling for the adoption of a Nuclear Weapons Convention which would comprehensively ban nuclear weapons was presented to Ambassador Leslie B. Gatan, adviser to the president of the ongoing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ReviewConference, Continue reading
Catholic Church condemns nuclear weapons existence as immoral
Vatican questions nuclear deterrence THIS CATHOLIC’S VIEW, The Washinton Post, By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. 13 May 2010, Not only is the use of nuclear weapons immoral, the conditions that allowed the Catholic Church to tolerate nuclear deterrence no longer apply, the Vatican representative to the United Nations said in little noticed speeches in Washington and New York City……At the forums, the nuncio laid out the moral case against nuclear weapons. In the past the use of nuclear weapons was condemned by the church, he said, but nuclear deterrence was granted conditional acceptance during the Cold War……”Nuclear weapons are no longer just for deterrence but have become entrenched in the military doctrines of the major powers,” Archbishop Migliore said. “A war-fighting strategy using nuclear weapons has been put in place.” Georgetown/On Faith: Vatican questions nuclear deterrence – Thomas J. Reese
Video – Total Nuclear Disarmament – call from Pope
Ruth Gledhill – Times Online – WBLG: Pope calls for total nuclear disarmament
VIDEO Pope calls for total nuclear disarmament, Ruth Gledhill – Times Online Pope Benedict XVI said: ‘The eighth Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty began work in New York on May 3rd. Progress towards combined and secure nuclear disarmament is closely connected to the full and rapid fulfilment of the relative international commitments. Peace, in fact, rests on trust and on respect for promises made, not only on the balance of power. In this spirit, I encourage the initiatives that seek progressive disarmament and areas free of nuclear weapons, with a view to their complete elimination from the planet.
World Council of Churches pushes for Nuclear Weapons Convention
Churches push for nuclear treaty at NPT Review conference, | Ekklesia, 7 May 2010, “…….after years of work – mostly by civil society groups including churches – a majority of the governments represented in New York are now in favour of starting work on a nuclear weapons convention. While the NPT was designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and someday to reverse it, the proposed convention would ban them completely. Continue reading
The economic and social realities of nuclear energy
Waste not … or get nukes — High Country News, Eric Jantz Apr 13, 2010 “……..To begin with, there’s the issue of who benefits from increasing nuclear power generation. At every point along the nuclear fuel chain, the flow of money reinforces current economic and social power disparities. Continue reading
Easter Blockade of Nuclear Base, by Christians
Double standards in nuclear policy on Iran and Israel
Israel and Iran simply highlight the hypocrisy of a larger nuclear policy that endorses a double standard.
The Nuclear Double Standard, Antiwar.com, by Charles V. Peña, March 12, Earlier this week, Israel announced its intention to pursue nuclear power to generate electricity. According to Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau, Israel wants to achieve energy independence from coal, which it has to import in significant quantities:…..(Israel, however, practices a policy of nuclear ambiguity, neither confirming nor denying whether it has nuclear weapons – yet it is generally accepted that Israel has such weapons).. Continue reading
Radiation tests on monkeys might be stopped
“Since there is currently no realistic timetable for deep space travel, there is simply no ethical justification for putting these monkeys through these inhumane and possibly fatal experiments at this time,” the lawmakers concluded.
NASA monkey radiation experiment facing animal-cruelty accusations THE HILL, By Tony Romm – 03/08/10 NASA’s Brookhaven National Laboratory is coming under intense scrutiny this week following complaints that its forthcoming $1.75 million radiation experiment on monkeys violates a score of animal-rights laws. Continue reading
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