Researchers condemn animal tests as unreliable
Scientists have spoken out against the reliability of animal tests in two separate instances this week.
Posted 15 Aug 2008
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A news release from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, dated 30 July 2008
Psychiatric Disorders in Chimps Subjected to Lab Experiments Parallel Those in Human Torture Survivors, Study Finds American Physician Presents Data at the 22nd Congress of the International Primatological Society in Edinburgh; Findings Could Support EU Proposals...
Posted 06 Aug 2008
Animal testing: an historic breakthrough
Key US government agencies this week have issued the clearest and most authoritative statement to date that animal testing does not work. Under a five-year programme, government laboratories will start moving to non-animal methods such...
Posted 15 Apr 2008
MOD to stop experiments on goats!
After years of conducting experiments on goats to determine the effects of extreme pressure and the ‘Bends’ on submarine crews, the MoD has bowed to pressure from MPs, the Southern Animal Rights Coalition and other...
Posted 07 Feb 2008
Animal rights group to challenge monkey experiments in court
New undercover video footage once again exposes the appalling abuse to which animals are subjected in government-sanctioned research laboratories. Although filmed in Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, equivalent ‘procedures’ are carried out in Britain and...
Posted 21 Dec 2007
Appeal Court victory for Animal Aid campaigners
Two Animal Aid supporters have won a landmark Appeal Court victory over police attempts to criminalise them for running a high street information stall, from where they sought public support for a ban on primate...
Posted 09 Sep 2007
Government loses High Court vivisection case
The High Court in London has ruled that the government has been underplaying the severity of suffering experienced by animals in laboratory experiments.
Posted 27 Jul 2007
RCVS fail to silence criticism of vet vivisector
An animal researcher, who was a recipient of an Animal Aid Mad Science Award (AAMSA), has failed in his attempt to get Animal Aid’s scientific consultant struck off the register of veterinary surgeons.
Posted 25 Jun 2007
Cheltenham Science Festival: report from Gloucestershire Animal Action
Cheltenham Science Festival, Tipu Aziz and the Orwellian nightmare come true!
Posted 14 Jun 2007
Judge condemns police over Oxford lab protest
Fourteen SPEAK campaigners who took part in a peaceful protest against the proposed Oxford University animal labs have walked free from court after the District Judge condemned Thames Valley Police for unlawfully stopping their protest...
Posted 01 Jun 2007