Victims of Charity

Regardless of their species or the reason for harming them, experimenting on animals can never be justified. Harming animals to advance humanity – whether for healthcare, cosmetic or warfare experiments – is inhumane and not part of the kinder, fairer world that most of us aspire to.

Using animals in science is also potentially harmful to people. Animals do not get the same diseases that we do, so symptoms must be induced artificially: a flawed concept for any experiment. The cure, therefore, is also different, so continuing to invest in animal experiments, diverting money away from research that is human-relevant, is nonsensical as well as cruel.

Medical research charities play an important role in human health; yet many continue to conduct or fund invasive experiments on animals, despite their unreliability. Our Victims of Charity campaign, which publishes the names of these charities, exposes the research they have supported and dispels some of the secrecy surrounding it.

We believe the public should know what their donations are paying for. Together, we can persuade medical charities to move away from cruel and unreliable experiments on animals towards progressive, kinder and more effective human-relevant research.