Roadmap – to phase out ‘animal testing’ – is launched
We are pleased to announce we have published our ‘Roadmap to phase out animal testing’.
Posted 03 Dec 2024
Posted on the 4th December 2018
Yesterday, 3 December, the Home Office department that regulates animal experiments published its annual report, and it makes for grim reading. The report covers 2017, and outlines 40 cases of ‘non-compliance’ with the law on animal experiments, or with conditions of licences to carry out research on animals. These included cases of unauthorized procedures and failures to provide food and water.
All instances of non-compliance are extremely worrying, as we are constantly assured that animal experiments are conducted in the most highly regulated ways. However, the report paints a very different picture, with instances of neglect and oversight and a failure of basic standards. These include:
Many of the non-compliance incidents involved the type of neglect which would, quite rightly, lead to prosecution if a member of the public acted in the same way. Sadly, the typical action taken against those who experiment on animals and commit such terrible acts is a ‘letter of admonition’, retraining or perhaps having a licence revoked.
Animal Aid believes that part of the reason for such inadequate censures is that many of the victims are mice, incorrectly perceived by many animal researchers and policy makers as ‘second class animals’, less important, or less capable of suffering, than dogs or monkeys, and therefore less worthy of consideration or compassion.
As well as being scientifically flawed, experiments on live animals are morally unjustifiable. When paired with the terrible examples of suffering outlined above, the horrors of life in a laboratory are clear for all to see. Pain, neglect, extreme suffering and death have no place in modern, cutting-edge science. Humane alternatives to outdated and unreliable animal research should be used instead of outdated animal ‘models’.
Says Jessamy Korotoga, Animal Aid Campaign Manager:
‘Once again, this shocking annual report outlines numerous instances where the most basic needs of animals are not being met, leading to immense suffering and death. When this does happen, the penalties are, quite frankly, pathetic. Animal Aid and its supporters are urging all those involved in animal experiments to instead embrace advanced, cutting-edge technologies that are not reliant on outdated and unreliable experiments on animals.’
We are pleased to announce we have published our ‘Roadmap to phase out animal testing’.
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