URGENT: Save the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute Lab Animals | Beagles & Monkeys NEED YOU

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Please send emails, faxes, and/or call directly the contacts of Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute demanding they stop slaughtering animals.  The days of action are Thursday and Friday, July 14 and 15.  You may use the below Sample Letter, but if you do not, please remember to include SAEN and WAR contact details with your message, thank you.

BACKGROUND | FROM SAEN & WAR

We know that everyone is busy and that there are many campaigns competing for your attention. The lives of as many as 300 monkeys and an untold number of beagles are hanging in the balance here. Please, we beg you, take some time to read about this desperate situation and take action to save these precious, innocent lives. This is an opportunity for everyone to agitate to liberate.

A year ago last June, Win Animal Rights (WAR) launched the first Operation: Agitate to Liberate and as a result, 120 beagles and 55 monkeys were liberated from a bankrupt lab in New Jersey. With your help we can do it again!

Recently a whistleblower contacted SAEN revealing that Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI), as a result of financial  reverses, had plans to exterminate 300 monkeys and a colony of  beagles whose size we do not yet know. The whistleblower has told  us that the monkey slaughter began on Monday, July 11th. 30 monkeys are being killed every day. When they have all been wiped out, the beagles are next. – Michael Budkie, Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN)

Hundreds of Beagles & Monkeys are depending on you! We must take steps to let the LRRI management team know that the animals in their care deserve to be released and given sanctuary. They have already given enough of their lives and enough of their freedom for human greed. We are asking that for the next 2 days, you make a commitment to advocate for the lives of these innocent beings by demanding that LRRI management open lines of communication to SAEN and/or WAR before close of business on Friday, July 15, 2011.


WHOM TO CONTACT | EMAIL BLOCK

rwrubin@lrri.org,rmcgivney@lrri.org,cdevaul@lrri.org,rblea@lrri.org,rleclaire@lrri.org,
jmcdonal@lrri.org,rsherwood@lrri.org,sstemkowski@lrri.org,wbechtol@lrri.org,
mreed@lrri.org,cdicarlo@lrri.org,pholeman@lrri.org,bhendzel@lrri.org,jtaylor@lrri.org,
dfox@lrri.org,dgriego@lrri.org,rmorrow@lrri.org,cmerriam-leith@lrri.org,info@lrri.org

WHOM TO CONTACT | INDIVIDUAL

Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI)
2425 Ridgecrest Dr. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108-5127
Phone: 505-348-9400
Fax: 505-348-8567
Email:   info@lrri.org

Robert W. Rubin, PhD
President and CEO
(505) 348-9365
rwrubin@lrri.org

Richard C. McGivney, MS, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
(505) 348-9430
rmcgivney@lrri.org

Cheryl N. DeVaul, BEd, MBA
Chief Human Resources Officer
(505) 348-9191
cdevaul@lrri.org

Rachel M. Blea, MBA
Director of Information Services
(505) 348-9597
rblea@lrri.org

Ross D. LeClaire, DVM, PhD, MSS, DABT, Fellow ATS
Director of Federal Programs
(505) 348-1795/9113
rleclaire@lrri.org

Jacob D. McDonald, PhD
Director, Chemistry and Inhalation Exposure Program
Director, Environmental Respiratory Health Program
(505) 348-9455
jmcdonal@lrri.org

Robert L. Sherwood, PhD
Director of Applied Life Sciences and Toxicology
(505) 348-9459
rsherwood@lrri.org

Stephen A. Stemkowski, PhD
Director of Center for Pharmacoeconomic and Outcomes Research
(704) 775-3515
sstemkowski@lrri.org

William E. Bechtold, PhD
Director of Technology Transfer
(505) 348-9456
wbechtol@lrri.org

Matthew D. Reed, PhD, DABT
Director of Preclinical Drug Development
(505) 348-4980
mreed@lrri.org

Cheryl D. DiCarlo, DVM, PhD, DACLAM
Director Comparative Medicine/Attending Vet
(505) 348-1935
cdicarlo@lrri.org

Chris Merriam-Leith, MS, PMP
Director of Business Affairs
(505) 348-9650
cmerriam-leith@lrri.org

Penny H. Holeman, MS, MPH
Director of Biosafety, Training & Biosecurity Solutions
(505) 348-9415
pholeman@lrri.org

Bret Hendzel, BA, MBA
Senior Director of Operations
(505) 348-9450
bhendzel@lrri.org

James Taylor
Federal Capture Manager
(505) 348-9518
jtaylor@lrri.org

Donii D. Fox, MSPH, CIH, CBSP
South Biological Safety Officer
(505) 348-1953
dfox@lrri.org

David D. Griego, BSME
Director of Facilities
(505) 348-9406
dgriego@lrri.org

Ricky L. Morrow
Consultant Director of Office of Research Contracts
(505) 348-9405
rmorrow@lrri.org

SAMPLE LETTER

To Whom It Concerns,

I have just learned that Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) is currently slaughtering animals, including monkeys and beagles, due to financial disparities. It is my understanding that dozens of animals are being killed daily and I am pleading with you to explore non-lethal alternatives including discussing this decision with animal rights groups, including Win Animal Rights and Stop Animal Exploitation Now, who have initiated a dialogue to save them. You should be aware that, despite any solicitous remarks made to facilitate social endorsement of vivisection and caused deaths, it is fundamentally cruel and unethical, and the existence of non-lethal alternatives, including rescue and sanctuary, makes sacrificing these animals to satisfy your budget deficits an unacceptable, irresponsible, and cruel response.

Animal experimentation is unnecessary, unjustified, and unprincipled, its only function to financially benefit those who exploit animals. Animals have rights to live free from pain and suffering regardless of objections to acknowledge such, and I therefore hope this message finds you willing to examine and subsequently change your complicity in their abuse and death. Please contact one or both the following organizations who have willingly offered to intervene on the animals’ behalf:

Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN):
Email: saen@saenonline.org
Phone: 1-513-575-5517
Website: http://saenonline.org

Win Animal Rights (WAR):
Email: centcom@war-online.org
Phone: 1-732-250-6066
Website: http://war-online.org

Thank you for your attention and consideration.

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