Site Demo Report – Thursday 1 May

The amount of support from passing motorists was huge as SPEAK supporters gathered for the regular Thursday demonstration - luckily it’s a clear case of ‘you can’t fool all the people all of the time’ which is exactly what Oxford University and its friends in high places have tried their best to do over since the building of their new animal torture lab came to light four years ago. The fact that SPEAK is getting such tremendous support in the fight against animal abuse by the university, both from the people of Oxford and tourists, despite all their best efforts to the contrary must be a thorn in the side of this institution which has always got its own way in the past.

The whole of the afternoons demonstration was very vocal due to the constant presence of builders driving machinery past the designated protest area throughout most of the four hours, accompanied by their private security. They were reminded that Oxford University think that treating animals humanely includes slicing the tops of their heads off and forcing electrodes into their brains whilst they are still alive. However, anyone with any decency or compassion can clearly see that this kind of brutal experimentation is totally barbaric and does not belong in the twenty first century.

The builders have shown that by remaining working for the university in constructing this building where so much suffering is due to take place, that they have no morals at all. But those SPEAK supporters who continue to stand up against the university, the government and all those that torture animals, show time and time again that anyone with any decency must get up and take action because all it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.