Reports released to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have revealed that more than 4,000 severe breaches of animal welfare regulations took place in UK slaughterhouses over the past two years. The shocking incidents detailed in...
Posted 30 Aug 2016
Dairy cows Want to go dairy-free? Order a FREE Go Vegan Pack The size of the total cattle herd in the UK – including both dairy and beef animals – is around 10 million. Of...
Posted 25 Aug 2016
A report published today (19 August), by a team of independent experts headed by Sheffield Hallam University Professor Ian Rotherham, finds that the cost of independent monitoring of CCTV inside England's slaughterhouses is likely to...
Posted 19 Aug 2016
The animal experiments The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in Potters Bar, UK breeds, maintains and experiments on a colony of dogs with the canine equivalent of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). This is the most common...
Posted 16 Aug 2016
It is a poor reflection on the scientific community that every year in Britain hundreds of thousands of animals are bred and killed, for their tissues or organs to be used in experiments, when an...
Posted 10 Aug 2016
Attempts to transplant animal tissues into the human body (xenotransplants) have a long history. During the 17th century, transfusion of animal blood into human recipients proved so hazardous that the development of life-saving blood transfusions...
Posted 10 Aug 2016
The scientific board of Pro Anima has investigated in-depth the relevance of results from experiments based on the animal model, for the assessment of human health safety.
Posted 10 Aug 2016
Did polio vaccines cultured in chimpanzee tissues trigger the AIDS epidemic in Africa?
Posted 10 Aug 2016
Genes are fundamental to life and help determine the characteristics of bacteria, plants and animals. In people there are approximately 20,000 - 25,000 genes. They are incorporated into the body's cells and are composed of...
Posted 10 Aug 2016
How many animals are used and for what? 3.87 million animals were used for the first time in procedures completed in 2016 and a total number of 3.94 million ‘procedures’ were completed. Due to the...
Posted 10 Aug 2016