AllRespect.com // Rise Against drummer weighs in against animal testing at CU-Boulder

Posted on 2013-10-22 03:00:16
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Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/53332/rise-against-drummer-weighs-in-against-animal-testing-at-cu-boulder

Rise Against drummer Brandon Barnes has sent a letter to his undergraduate college, University of Colorado - Boulder to protest their use of animals. Students at CU-Boulder currently decapitate frogs, force frightened rats to swim in water mazes, and cut open live rats to expose their hearts, even though "superior non-animal methods exist and undergraduate science classes at CU-Denver are taught without using, hurting, or killing any animals.." Brandon says:

After spending the last 14 years playing drums in the band Rise Against, whose primary messages are about fighting injustice, I feel compelled to weigh in on this important issue. Treating other sensitive, intelligent beings like disposable laboratory equipment is wrong, and I know that there must be better ways to teach undergraduates than by having them needlessly torment, maim, and kill hundreds of animals.

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