Join us on 18 February to stop animal experiments at the Royal Veterinary College
The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) conducts around 9,000 experiments on animals every year.
Posted 24 Jan 2017
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Horrifying laboratory deaths described in new report
The 2015 annual report from the Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU), the regulators of animal experiments in the UK, makes chilling reading.
Posted 19 Jan 2017
Experiments on baby mice at Arthritis Research UK-funded research centre
A research centre founded with money from Arthritis Research UK, provided a grant to support gruesome experiments conducted on a number of ten-week-old mice.
Posted 02 Nov 2016
Please ask the Royal Veterinary College to stop experimenting on animals
In just two weeks, more than 5,200 people have already signed our petition calling on the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) to end its animal research programme. The College has been involved in shocking animal experiments,...
Posted 07 Oct 2016
New report considers ethical implications of genome editing
Today, the 30th September, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published its report ‘Genome editing: an ethical review’ which considers the impact of recent advances in gene editing and the ethical questions which these advances...
Posted 30 Sep 2016
Royal Veterinary College involved in gruesome and deadly experiments
Animal Aid can reveal that the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) played a central role in a series of gruesome experiments on female sheep. Some of these are reported to have gone seriously wrong, which resulted...
Posted 23 Sep 2016
Waste in biomedical research can harm people’s health
According to Dr Michael Bracken, as much as 87.5 per cent of all biomedical research may be wasteful and inefficient1. The Susan Dwight Bliss professor of epidemiology at Yale University School of Public Health is...
Posted 24 Aug 2016
New government vivisection figures – the scandal continues
The shocking extent of animal use for scientific research is revealed today in Home Office statistics, relating to all vivisection completed in 2015. A total of 4.14 million procedures were conducted on animals, including dogs,...
Posted 20 Jul 2016
Shocking animal deaths at the Royal Veterinary College
Internal Royal Veterinary College documents, obtained by Animal Aid under Freedom of Information legislation, reveal a series of blunders by college researchers performing animal experiments, that have resulted in dogs, sheep, guinea pigs and other...
Posted 29 Jun 2016
New GM technique signals catastrophe for animals
This week, a grotesque new chapter in the genetic modification of animals hit the headlines. Employing a new ‘wonder gene-editing tool’, pigs are being used to grow organs for transplantation into humans.
Posted 07 Jun 2016