Animal Aid statement on Royal Ascot: heat wave created unacceptable risk to horse’s lives
Royal Ascot ends the life of at least one horse, with multiple whip offences also seen at this year’s event.
Posted 20 Jun 2022

Posted on the 9th February 2017
An exposé released today by Animal Aid reveals that Cancer Research UK has been acknowledged for providing ‘generous financial support’ for cruel and outdated experiments on a number of furless mice, in order to give them bone cancer.
The animals, some 6 weeks old and others 16 weeks old, had cancer cells injected into their hearts. The male mice received prostate cancer cells and the female mice received breast cancer cells. The animals were killed at various times after the injection into their hearts.
This shocking research is the latest to be exposed by Animal Aid’s Victims of Charity campaign. This campaign highlights how some medical charities, frequently household names, are involved in cruel and outdated animal research. This not only entails suffering to animals, but also represents unreliable science.
Animal Aid has long campaigned to raise awareness that data gathered from ‘animal models’ is not reliably predictive of the human condition. This is due to numerous factors including species differences – between humans and other animals – and how the disease is ‘created’ in the animal. The importance of these factors is enormous; this latest exposé is no exception, with the researchers themselves outlining how their method of creating cancer in these animals is very different to the human situation.
In addition to the suffering caused by the experiments themselves, animals also suffer due to the stressful laboratory environment. In this case, the researchers give no description of how the animals were kept, whether they were caged alone, had bedding or enrichment, what they were fed or how much light they had each day. We also know from other publications that the type of mouse used in this research, ‘BALB/c nude mice’, have been described as having many health problems such as aggression in males, heart problems and eye problems – including where the edges of the eyelids become inflamed and where abscesses form around the eyes.
Says Jessamy Korotoga, Animal Aid’s Anti-Vivisection Campaign Manager:
‘That Cancer Research UK have been linked to yet more unreliable and cruel animal research is dreadful. That they have been thanked for providing ‘generous financial support’, should serve as a call to all those who donate to CRUK to challenge them on where their donations are being spent and on why such archaic experiments are still receiving support. In this day and age, these high-profile charities should be leading by example and investing only in humane, non-animal research methods.’
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Posted 20 Jun 2022
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