Statement - May 3, 2001

Viva! hopes that the liberation of ducks from the Duck Laboratory at Cornell University draws more awareness to all animals used in experiments and those killed for food.

In the U.S., 24 million ducks are intensively farmed and killed for food. In addition to this, thousands are experimented on to further push these animals to their limits.

North Carolina State University carried out a number of experiments from 1990 Ð 1995 to "