The European Commission has today (June 3) rejected a Citizens’ Initiative signed by more than one million people from across Europe, which called for the current Directive on animal experimentation to be overturned, and for...
Posted 03 Jun 2015
On May 11, the scientific validity of animal experimentation was debated in a groundbreaking hearing at the European Parliament. This debate took place as a result of the Stop Vivisection initiative, which gained signatures from...
Posted 13 May 2015
Animal Aid has today launched a petition calling on the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) to overturn a new requirement that all its members must publicly declare support for vivisection on their websites. We...
Posted 23 Apr 2015
Furless mice injected with human cancer cells Rats chemically poisoned for six months Mice genetically modified to develop cancer
Posted 31 Mar 2015
A document published yesterday (March 26) by the government has confirmed its total lack of commitment to reducing the suffering of animals in laboratories.
Posted 27 Mar 2015
An article that appeared in the Guardian Weekly has strongly criticised the use of mice as ‘models’ of human disease. Interviewing scientists from the National Institutes of Health and Harvard Medical School, it describes how...
Posted 20 Mar 2015
The coalition government has today (March 12) announced a pitifully weakened version of its promised ban on animal testing for household products.
Posted 12 Mar 2015
Animal Aid has this week published a detailed new Briefing – written especially for members of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) – making the scientific case against the use of animals in biomedical...
Posted 16 Feb 2015
Yesterday, campaigners from Animal Aid staged a dynamic presence at the British Heart Foundation’s celebrity ball, and called on the organisation to stop funding experiments on animals. Activists distributed leaflets inside the event itself, which...
Posted 11 Feb 2015
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has been accused of wasting public donations on a ‘cruel and absurd’ animal experiment that involved rats being fed a compound found in green vegetables, then deprived of oxygen for...
Posted 19 Jan 2015