Animal Aid: Animal Experiments

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

Animal Experiments

Each year inside British laboratories, nearly 4 million animals are experimented on. Every 8 seconds, one animal dies. Cats, dogs, rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, primates and other animals are used to test new products, to study human disease and in the development of new drugs. They are even used in warfare experiments. Animal Aid opposes animal experiments on both moral and scientific grounds. Animals are not laboratory tools. They are sentient creatures capable of experiencing pain, fear, loneliness, frustration and sadness.

To imprison animals and deny them their freedom to express natural instincts and to deliberately inflict physical pain in the name of science is unacceptable. All the more so because the experiments are bad science in the first place: they do not produce information that can be reliably applied to people. Ending vivisection will benefit people as well as animals.

Charities and Animal Testing

While many health charities fund or conduct experiments on animals, there are many more who direct their resources toward non-animal research or to help sufferers in other ways.

End Primate Experiments in Europe

EU Directive Update: Despite widespread support from both the public and MEPs for a timetabled replacement of all primates in experiments to be included in the new Directive on animal research, sadly this progressive step has failed to materialise.

Making a Killing: How drug company greed harms people and animals

Making a Killing: How drug company greed harms people and animals is a major new report that exposes a catalogue of unethical practices – beginning with misleading animal tests – that are designed to drive up drug sales, which already cost the NHS £1 billion per year. The public’s health also suffers: in 2006, 1 million people were hospitalised in Britain due to adverse drug reactions.

Citing more than 400 references, the report paints a compelling picture of a morally bankrupt industry that has run out of control.

Humane Research

Hundreds of thousands of animals are bred and killed every year so that their body parts can be used in test tube studies. At the same time, huge amounts of a genuinely useful research material - human tissue - is being incinerated. Since 1991, Animal Aid has fought this insanity.