Tamoxifen (Paragraphs in italics are extracted from CRUK’s letter) ‘Tamoxifen is one of the most successful anti-cancer drugs in current use, and it is estimated to have saved the lives of over 400,000 women worldwide…’...
Posted 14 Feb 2012
In reply to a recent enquiry from an Animal Aid supporter, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) offered three examples of ‘how the use of animals in our research has resulted in life saving scientific progress’, and...
Posted 14 Feb 2012
Today’s national newspapers carried (often uncritical) reports of the birth of two macaque monkeys, whose genetic material originates from six ‘parents’. Known as chimeras, for each monkey, diverse parent cells were brought together to create...
Posted 06 Jan 2012
The first ever fall in Cancer Research UK’s annual income, announced this week, coincides with Animal Aid’s call for people to boycott the charity until it stops funding animal experiments. Animal Aid’s fully referenced scientific...
Posted 29 Nov 2011
As part of its high-profile Victims of Charity campaign - which calls on the public to withhold financial support from medical research charities that fund animal experiments - Animal Aid has launched a new webpage...
Posted 03 Nov 2011
The head of the organisation representing medical research charities has exploited his membership of the House of Lords to urge the government to neutralise criticism of the animal research funded by his members.
Posted 05 Oct 2011
Following publication of an NOP poll, which revealed that 82 per cent of respondents would not ‘knowingly donate to a medical research or health charity that funds experiments on animals’ (see Notes), Animal Aid has...
Posted 07 Sep 2011
Last Saturday, August 13th, saw Animal Aid supporters across the country take to the streets for our Victims of Charity Day of Action. We want to say a big thank you to everyone who took...
Posted 26 Aug 2011
Full poster image Photos of the posters in situ 110-124 Theobalds Road 191 Old Marylebone Road 191 Tottenham Court Road 76 Oxford Street 494 Oxford Street 82 Baker Street Melton Street
Posted 23 Aug 2011
Medical research charities that use public donations to fund animal experimentation have been dealt a bitter blow with the results of a new public opinion poll, which indicates that they are acting against the wishes...
Posted 23 Aug 2011