"I love animals as you do..."

Says W. Henry Sebrell, Executive Director of The Weightwatchers Foundation Inc., USA, who is responsible for the Foundation's research programme.

Mobilise! 3 revealed experiments funded by Weightwatchers USA and now comes up with more grist for the mill:

Between 1 January and 31 December 1981 one hundred and twentyseven "ovariectomized", "experimentally-diabetic" individually-caged monkey prisoners suffered obscene experiments.

Experiment		"Regulation of Energy Balance in Macaca Mulatta"
Location		University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Recipient		Joseph W. Kemnitz
Amount		Ten thousand dollars
Agency		Weightwatchers

"We are supporting research by our best scientists in our best universities"
- Mr Sebrell throws in for good measure.

NZAVS strongly disagrees with Mr Sebrell's claim that the cure for obesity, cancer, heart disease, arthritis, or any other ailment will be brought about by killing and disabling helpless monkeys driven mad in cages. It believes that such experiments are the products of sick, grasping minds, carried out with motives of financial or academic profit.

Obesity is a common and dangerous disease of the affluent society. It is crippling to health and will not be cured by abusing monkeys - or any other species.

It is suggested that Mr Sebrell restricts future grants of Weightwatchers' money to research of human volunteers - based on human activities and situations. For instance:

• Study of reductions/eliminations of food and drink
• Study of eliminations of worry and stress
• The eliminations of animal-tested drugs and potions
• Study of regular vigorous exercise, relaxations etc
• The study of human family histories
• The reduction/elimination of animal products in the diet

Brain damaged scientist wants no unnecessary fuss!

Monkeys are being struck in the head by a machine, knocked unconscious and cut open at the University of Pennsylvania to determine what kind of brain damage is done by different types of blows. The experiments are described as "the next best thing to hitting a boxer in the face or slamming a human's head against a windshield". Apparently the director of the research, Dr Thomas Gennarelli, is not sure the public will appreciate the value of his project. In a newspaper interview he said, "I'm not willing to go on the record to discuss the laboratory studies... because it has the potential to stir up all sorts of unnecessary fuss among those who are sensitive to these kinds of things... we're trying to keep ourselves out of the newspapers". So far it has been observed that if a monkey has not recovered from a first blow, a second blow will cause 10 times more damage.
(courtesy ADAV League of British Columbia).