WEEK OF ACTION DAY 4 >>

Today marked the end of the AALAS protests (this year) and the beginning of targeting the U of U head on.

First in the morning we went to the AALAS convention site for their last day of the conference. Boy things sure were dead. However we did have two interesting conversations. One was with an executive with a company called "Aquatic Habitats" which are a supplier to labs for fish vivisection. He stated that he believes we should also start experimenting on prisoners since they contribute nothing to society. What lovely ethics! He even stated "you can quote me on that on your website too." So we are. Aquatic Habitats = sleazy unethical company.

Then at the convention site we ran into an old friend: Lisa Krugner-Higby. One of the activists with UPF recently came from Madison, Wisconsin where Lisa Krugner-Higby is a long-time vivisector. Interesting thing about Higby is at one time she agreed to debate animal activists in public on the use of animals in research, but then decided to back out. Today she came out of the conference turning her head 180 degrees to try and prevent this activist from recognizing her. Not today Higby! We confront you people wherever you go.

We'll travel to the ends of the earth to confront them, and that night we proved that Utah primate vivisectors are not safe from protest anywhere. We drove over an hour to a small canyon town called Eden, Utah to protest Robert M. Donahoe, a new primate researcher at the University of Utah. WELCOME TO SALT LAKE BOB!

Bob just came from the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta and so have his terrible SIV studies. Rob forcefully addicts monkeys to opium and then infects them with SIV. This pointless and cruel study has been going on for a decade now and Bob's grant gets over $800,000 a year in tax money. How sick.

We had a bit of difficulty finding the house at first until we saw the giant sign out front that said "THE DONAHOE RESIDENCE." Thanks Bob! Maybe you didn't know that Utah hates vivisectors. Maybe you thought we wouldn't go up to Eden - but we did. We also discovered that vivisection goes quite a long way financially because Bob has quite the mansion. He must be loaded. It even won the award for best architecture in the Parade of Homes. But Bob wasn't home when we got there - and his street was pretty desolate. After placing a flyer on his doorstep, we walked down to the general neighborhood and handed out dozens of flyers to his neighbors. We even personally spoke with several of them and also handed out DVD's. One neighbor, a very close neighbor, said she'd be careful letting her dogs out with sleaze like him next door.

Welcome to the neighborhood, Bobby boy.



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