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Oxford University

With the sweet smell of success over the Cambridge University primate labs saga still hanging in the air, Oxford University's announcement, in January 2004, of its plans to construct a new animal research centre seemed incredibly ill-advised.

The University was continuing to peddle the myth that medical research will not progress without the use of animals - but a wealth of evidence proves otherwise. In fact, the University's own history of animal experimentation provides ample proof that not only are animal experiments morally abhorrent and ethically unacceptable - they are also scientifically irrelevant.

Press cuttings from the Oxford campaign

For the full campaign history, plus the story of the Cambridge primate labs, see the vivisection archive.

	Background An introduction to the Oxford University animal laboratory campaign.
	Why I handed back my 1st class degree Oxford alumna Sharon speaks out against the new labs.
	Mad scientists descend on Oxford In September we took our protest against the proposed new labs to the streets of Oxford, in a light-hearted stunt that attracted considerable media coverage.
	Oxford protest in favour of labs : Ignorance on parade Pro-vivisectionists took to the streets in support of the new Oxford labs.
	A Catalogue of Shame Animal Aid's report on animal experiments at Oxford describes some of the animal experiments that have already been carried out at this institution, in the name of science.
	Monkey Madness at Oxbridge Animal Aid's Mad Science Awards for 2004 went to researchers at Oxford and Cambridge Universities for highly invasive brain research on primates.

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