Cheltenham Science Festival: report from Gloucestershire Animal Action
Cheltenham Science Festival, Tipu Aziz and the Orwellian nightmare come true!
Posted 14 Jun 2007
News
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
Chimpanzee research is flawed, says scientific study
The value to human medicine of laboratory research using chimpanzees is being evaluated in a series of major studies. The first paper finds that such experiments contribute ‘little, if at all, to tangible human clinical...
Posted 20 Mar 2007
Leading neuroscientist speaks out against animal testing: statement by VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford)
An eminent neuroscientist and practising neurosurgeon has stepped into the raging debate over animal experimentation to launch a blistering attack on Oxford University and other animal-using research institutions.
Posted 04 Jan 2007
Oxford vivisectionists are swimming against the tide – by Marius Maxwell
As a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist with two decades of research experience, I feel qualified to contribute to the debate on non-human primate vivisection. The arguments of the Weatherall Committee defy much current scientific evidence, and...
Posted 04 Jan 2007
Whitewash! Vivisectionists support primate research
The just-released Weatherall report on the use of non-human primates in experiments - which claims that there is a 'strong scientific and moral case' for such research - is nothing short of a sham.
Posted 13 Dec 2006
VERO
A new group of Oxford University members and graduates called VERO (Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford) has sent an open letter to the Vice Chancellor of the University challenging its decision to build the...
Posted 06 Jul 2006
Animals: the Hidden Victims of War
This month, the Imperial War Museum in London launches The Animals' War - an exhibition commemorating the animals who have died in worldwide conflicts. To coincide with this, Animal Aid has produced a brand new...
Posted 01 Jul 2006
New NHS funded study shows up animal testing shambles
A just released survey of animal research funded by the NHS provides damning evidence - says national campaign group Animal Aid - that animal experiments aren't just cruel, they don't appear to work. The report...
Posted 08 Jun 2006
The Independent – an act that has failed to protect animals
From The Independent (17/04/06): Twenty years on from the 1986 Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, our Director, Andrew Tyler, comments in The Independent:
Posted 17 Apr 2006