On Saturday 18th February, Animal Aid staff and supporters held a peaceful vigil outside the Royal Veterinary College's Campus in Potter's Bar in order to raise awareness about the College's programme of animal research.
On Saturday 18th February, Animal Aid staff and supporters held a peaceful vigil outside the Royal Veterinary College’s Campus in Potter’s Bar in order to raise awareness about the College’s programme of animal research.
Since early 2016, Animal Aid has raised awareness among the public about the extent of animal experimentation at the College; in 2014 more than 9,700 procedures were conducted on various animal species and in 2015 this number had risen to more than 11,000*, an increase of almost 14%. The species involved included guinea pigs, mice, dogs and fish.
Animal Aid has previously highlighted horrific experiments conducted at the College which involved five sheep being operated upon to remove and re-graft their wombs. Conducted to help human fertility, the experiments were reported to have gone seriously wrong. The five ‘procedures’ resulted in: one early death, one ‘abandoned’ operation and two animals suffering kidney failure.
Previous research at the College included:
Jessamy Korotoga, Anti-Vivisection Campaign ManagerAnimal Aid and thousands of members of the public have contacted the College concerning their animal research programme. Our petition to the College currently has almost 7,500 signatures, which shows the strength of feeling there is amongst the public about this issue. Each of these signatories, along with Animal Aid, are telling the College that we expect a veterinary college to heal animals, not to deliberately harm them.
We believe that by causing animals to suffer pain and distress, the RVC is doing the opposite of what people expect of it. We are urging the College to cease all animal research on both scientific and moral grounds
