| Topic: animal testing likely to rise. |
| Posted : 09/08/08 / Views : 160 / Replies : 7 | |
|  | This was just sent to me by a friend of mine, makes me so sick.
"Animal testing 'likely to rise'
pa.press.net
The number of monkeys and other non-human primates used in animal experiments is expected to rise as new sophisticated therapies are developed for complex diseases.
Scientists made the prediction as the Home Office released new figures showing a 6% rise in the number of scientific procedures involving animals between 2006 and 2007.
The total number of procedures carried out in the UK last year was just over 3.2 million. It was the sixth year in a row that the figure had increased, mainly due to the growing use of genetically-modified rodents and fish.
Around 4,000 procedures involved non-human primates, a fall of 6% on 2006. But experts warned that progress in stem cell research and the development of new antibody-based treatments was likely to put pressure on scientists to conduct more primate experiments in the future.
One reason was that animals more closely related to humans than the traditional lab rat or mouse are needed when investigating ways to tackle complex neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases.
However the scientists made it clear there were no immediate prospects of using great apes, humankind's closest animal relatives, for such procedures. Experiments on chimpanzees and other great apes are currently banned in the UK.
Dr Judy MacArthur Clark, the Home Office's Chief Inspector of Animal Procedures, said there could be no shift in the direction of great apes without a major public and political debate.
"It will not come out of the blue," she said at a news conference in London. "This is not something that's going to be snuck in, there would be big public and political debate around it before any decisions are taken."
At present there are no facilities for great ape experiments in the UK and no available animals.
The new figures were announced in the latest reports on animal testing statistics from the Home Office's Animals (Scientific Procedures) Inspectorate." |
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| Reply #1: Re: animal testing likely to rise. |
| Posted : 24/07/08 | |
| | | It's a shame we can't follow in Spain's footsteps - I read they were planning on extending human rights legislation to chimpanzees! |
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| Reply #2: Re: animal testing likely to rise. |
| Posted : 24/07/08 | |
 | | User | anon |
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| | I can't help but think of this Quote…
Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals,
and the answer is:
"Because the animals are like us."
Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals,
and the answer is:
"Because the animals are not like us."
Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.
~ Professor Charles R. Magel |
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| Reply #3: Re: animal testing likely to rise. |
| Posted : 25/07/08 | |
| | | Not surprised the UK is slightly more civilised so you can imagine the number of experiments which are under taken by other countries specially, America, Russia, China etc at a guess the World is killing millions in animal genocide each year even though the figures which we see are only scratching at the surface, the real figures we will never know, however we do know that over 6 billion dollars was earnt through the illicit sales of wild life last year coming out of Afica and Russia all of which end up in government and private experimental stations, how do you fight this type of war not with a petition, the governments will only push it further under ground. |
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| Reply #4: Re: animal testing likely to rise. |
| Posted : 25/07/08 | |
| | | Not surprised the UK is slightly more civilised so you can imagine the number of experiments which are under taken by other countries specially, America, Russia, China etc at a guess the World is killing millions in animal genocide each year even though the figures which we see are only scratching at the surface, the real figures we will never know, however we do know that over 6 billion dollars was earnt through the illicit sales of wild life last year coming out of Afica and Russia all of which end up in government and private experimental stations, how do you fight this type of war not with a petition, the governments will only push it further under ground. |
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| Reply #5: Re: animal testing likely to rise. |
| Posted : 25/07/08 | |
| | User | anon |
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| | I agree that the real figures are unknown, and I'm sure those who profit from this genocide work bloody hard to keep it that way.
We must fight this every way we can. If asking someone to sign a petition gets them asking about the subject it's a good thing. It is my experience that talking to the public and offering leaflets about the uselessness of animal experiments and explaining to them how experiments on animals only serve to help those with a vested financial interest in it is something most people actually want to know about (unless they have a financial interest or don't give a sh** about animals) So it is important that those who do care, learn all they can about the truth behind vivisection so we can then pass that info on. |
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| Reply #6: Re: animal testing likely to rise. |
| Posted : 25/07/08 | |
| | User | anon |
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| | Re the government pushing it further underground… they have been trying to do that since forever, but the freedom of information thingy means that groups like PeTA have ways of finding out. And then there are the other people that are getting pretty good at uncovering what the government don't want us to know.
Power to the people...! |
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| Reply #7: Re: animal testing likely to rise. |
| Posted : 09/08/08 | |
| | Animal experiments have risen over 21% since Labour came to power
http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr_experiments/ALL/1845//
More than 3.2 million scientific 'procedures' using animals were started in 2007, a 6 per cent rise on 2006 and the highest total since the early 1990s |
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