Auckland volunteers met on the city's busiest street for a colourful action to publicise the 300,000+ animals who suffer inside laboratories in New Zealand each year. Volunteers dressed as animals sat inside a human-sized cage, while others crouched inside boxes, wearing rabbit ears and with their faces painted, representing the way animals are commonly placed in stocks for laboratory tests. "We also had people wrapped in bloodied sheets wearing animal masks with plaques placed against them to remind people that inevitably lab animals are tortured, killed, and then discarded" said Caro, SAFE's Campaign Officer. "We were pleased the public were really receptive and that SAFE's new cruelty free handy-sized guides were well received." "Many people had no idea that so many animals suffer inside labs in New Zealand and were keen to start boycotting products that had been tested on animals", said Caro.
24 April 2007
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