ARAN & IAVS International Primate Demo Huge Success 2007

dublin | animal rights | news report Sunday September 09, 2007 22:00 by John Carmody - Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) arancampaigns at eircom dot net ARAN, Po Box 722, Kildare, Ireland 0876275579

We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our joint event with our good friends at Irish Anti Vivisection Society (IAVS). Numbers of people at this year’s event were up compared to our similar event last year outside Dail Eireann, which is good news.

For over two hours activists distributed leaflets, a ‘monkey’ and a ‘rabbit’ ensured everyone including traffic on Dublin’s busiest O’Connell Street saw our banners and heard our message. Thankfully there was lots of support from many passersby with many people stopping to ask questions about animal experiments and cosmetic testing on animals, all in all it was a friendly and fun day that was bringing attention to a very serious issue of animal experiments.

Thanks to all who participated in today’s event, activists and members came from Clare, Limerick, Sligo, Wicklow, Wexford and of course the amazing troops from Northern Ireland and let’s not forget all the amazing Dublin activists who attended today with whom Animal Rights Action Network admire, very much, indeed!

So for those of you who could not make it today, don’t worry we don’t ever forget you either, please click here to see a short video, we always manage to have fun on these demos too, because the cruelty can most often be all to pressing!

The number one thing people always ask is, how can I do more to help animals – our message is simple - including but not limited to responding to our appeals, attend our demos and going vegetarian!