Help stop animal tests and save lives

Wednesday, April 24 is World Day for Laboratory Animals, commemorating the suffering of animals in laboratories around the world and a day when we highlight the advanced scientific methods now available, which can end the suffering and provide faster results, more relevant to humans.
 
Please take a few moments on this special day to help them.

 

An estimated 4 animals die every second in experiments around the world.
 
Worldwide, over 115 million animals are used in research and testing, force-fed products to find out how much will kill them, infected with disease, burnt, blinded - all this, when we already know that each species responds differently to substances. Results of animal tests can be affected by the animal's age, diet, bedding materials, even the laboratory environment. Results have also been found to vary from laboratory to laboratory.

 

Artificially created diseases in laboratory animals as 'models' of human disease like arthritis, are not the same as the disease in the real world in humans, so can produce misleading results. 

 

The research is generally conducted in secret, so the pain and suffering of these animals is not subjected to wider scientific and public scrutiny, and promotion of use of modern, advanced techniques.
  
In US laboratories alone, an estimated 15+ million animals are experimented on each year. Government figures show nearly 830,000 animals died including guinea pigs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, and monkeys, but many are shocked to learn that this excludes the use of birds, mice, and rats, who are estimated to be used for 95% of experiments.

• Mandatory adoption of advanced scientific non-animal methods such as cell culture, computer modelling, organ-on-a-chip, databases, clinical studies, and other technology.
• End the secrecy - introduce wider scientific scrutiny of proposals for animal use, so that human-relevant methods can be introduced.