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Animal experimentsEach year inside British laboratories, approximately 3 million animals are experimented on. Every 12 seconds, one animal dies. Cats, dogs, rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, primates (monkeys) and other animals are used to test new products, to study human disease and in the development of new drugs - they are even used in warfare experiments. Animal Aid opposes animal experiments on both moral and scientific grounds. Animals are not laboratory tools. They are sentient creatures capable of experiencing pain, fear, loneliness, frustration and sadness. To imprison animals and deny them their freedom and ability to express natural instincts, to deliberately inflict pain, cause extreme suffering, mental distress, and ultimately a premature and often slow and protracted death all in the name of science is unacceptable. All the more so because the experiments are bad science in the first place: they do not work and have the potential to harm human health. Ending vivisection will benefit people as well as animals. In January 2004 a landmark victory was won in the campaign against animal experiments. Cambridge University, which had for several years been planning to build a multi-million pound primate research centre, announced it was shelving the plans, following a public inquiry at which it was unable to back up its claims that the research to be carried out there would benefit human health. Hundreds of monkeys each year will now be spared the horror of confinement, torture and death inside a laboratory. Animal Aid is actively campaigning against a new animal laboratory under construction at Oxford University. Every year, Animal Aid's Mad Science Awards highlight the ludicrous and horrific scientific research carried out on animals. The 2004 awards went to researchers at Oxford and Cambridge conducting experiments on monkeys. |
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| For links to all the resources for Animal Aid campaigns in this area see the animal experiments archive. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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