The following mail was recieved by me:

International e-mail action to close down Europe's
biggest primate center, BPRC

Target: **********
When: Friday 11 April 2003
How: Send ABN-AMRO an e-mail to let them know what you
think of their support towards BPRC

More info:

ABN AMRO SUPPORTS ANIMAL CRUELTY

The Biomedical Primate Research Center (BPRC) in
Rijswijk is the biggest primate center in Europe. The
center keeps around 1500 monkeys, amongst them rhesus
macaques, marmosets, doeroecoeli's, squirrel monkeys
and chimpanzees. These monkeys are being used for
research in immunology, parasitology, neurological
disorders, virology and xeno transplantation. Day in
day out these monkeys are tortured in the name of
science! And all of these research results are pretty
much invalidated by the fact that they are monkeys and
not humans. There are many examples of drugs which
were promoted on the market as being safe but caused
horrific side effects when people started using them.
Every year millions of Euros go to the vivisection
industry but of every Euro only 0.3- cents goes to
research into alternatives. The old-guard of
scientists desperately tries to cling on to their old
and cheaper methods. The tests in the BPRC are cruel
and useless. We demand the closure of this monkey
hell!

ABN AMRO is by far the biggest business bank of the
Netherlands. Almost every company with sales of over a
million Euros is doing business with this bank. Also
the BPRC has an account with the ABN AMRO and they
take care of their financial business. This is not the
first time ABN AMRO is investing in dodgy companies.
Recently they invested in the English INSYS GROUP, a
producer of cluster bombs and anti-tank mines amongst
other things. These bombs and mines are causing
thousands of deaths each year all over the world. In
March 2002 even the Dutch government raised questions
about this investment. Before this the ABN AMRO
invested in the construction of oil palm plantations
in Indonesia, which meant rainforests were burned down
and clear felled. Indigenous people, tigers,
orangutans and rhinos are now threatened with
extinction because they are losing their natural
habitat. After a campaign by ‘Milieudefensie,' (the
Dutch Friends of the Earth) ABN AMRO promised to
subject their finances to very strict criteria. The
motto of ABN AMRO is, "respecting human rights and
the environment is an integral part of responsible
social behavior and corporate citizenship. We are
accountable for our actions and open about them." We
think their motto is some kind of a sick joke!

Cancel your account at the ABN AMRO bank and tell them
why. Make sure your money is not being invested in
projects that destroy the earth and it's inhabitants.
Open an account with a bank that is doing business in
a socially responsible way.

BPRC HAS TO CLOSE, BPRC WILL CLOSE!

More info:
Actioncampaign Koen
bprcapenhel@yahoo.com
http://www.bprcmoetdicht.org

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