File #: 16-5282    Version: 1 Name: HONORING THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF MARY MARGARET CUNNIFF AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY
Type: Consent Calendar Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 9/12/2016 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 9/14/2016 Final action: 9/14/2016
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION HONORING THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF MARY MARGARET CUNNIFF AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY WHEREAS, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Cunniff has been the Executive Director of the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) for thirty years. She was instrumental in the development of the United States' first-ever "Declaration of the Rights of Animals," which acknowledged that all animals were entitled "to live free from human exploitation," which was co-signed by more than 40 animal advocacy organizations, and which was presented to Congressional leaders on the steps of Capitol Hill in Washington, DC; and WHEREAS, under Cunniff's leadership, NAVS launched the Frog Fund, an initiative that she would then merge with the NAVS-supported Dissection Hotline to become the United States' first and largest resource for alternatives to the use of animals in classroom dissection; and WHEREAS, Cunniff serves as president of the International Foundation f...
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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

HONORING THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF MARY MARGARET CUNNIFF AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY

WHEREAS, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Cunniff has been the Executive Director of the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) for thirty years. She was instrumental in the development of the United States' first-ever "Declaration of the Rights of Animals," which acknowledged that all animals were entitled "to live free from human exploitation," which was co-signed by more than 40 animal advocacy organizations, and which was presented to Congressional leaders on the steps of Capitol Hill in Washington, DC; and

WHEREAS, under Cunniff's leadership, NAVS launched the Frog Fund, an initiative that she would then merge with the NAVS-supported Dissection Hotline to become the United States' first and largest resource for alternatives to the use of animals in classroom dissection; and

WHEREAS, Cunniff serves as president of the International Foundation for Ethical Research, which was established to support the development, validation and implementation of vivisection alternatives; and

WHEREAS, under Cunniff's leadership, NAVS established the National Research Library for Animal Advocacy at The John Marshall Law School; and

WHEREAS, under Cunniff's leadership, the NAVS Sanctuary Fund was created to help animals-including those retired from research laboratories-in dire circumstances as a result of natural and man-made disasters, and provided a critical grant to Chimp Haven, allowing them to become the National Chimpanzee Sanctuary; and

WHEREAS, Cunniff led the development of the United States' first comprehensive, regularly-updated guide to cruelty-free shopping; and

WHEREAS, under Cunniff's leadership, NAVS founded the International Institute for Animal Law to promote the passage of laws that protect animals by advancing scholarship within the legal and legislative arena on behalf of animals, and launched the Animal Law...

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