It's time to end the suffering of animals
EVERY year on April 25 compassionate people around the world speak out on behalf of the victims of vivisection.
World Day for Laboratory Animals is a time to reflect upon the suffering of millions of monkeys, cats, fish, mice, rats, dogs, birds, rabbits, pigs, horses and many other species. Despite mounting evidence demonstrating that the information gained by using animals cannot be reliably applied to human medicine, the suffering continues.
They are surgically mutilated, blinded, burnt, starved, psychologically tormented, and infected with lethal viruses.
Last year in a move that is resonating in scientific circles around the World, leading US government agencies have declared that using animals to test the safety of drugs and chemicals is unreliable, expensive and slow. Their goal is to switch to modern, humane testing methods within 10 years.
The British Government must make a similar commitment to abolish vivisection and be true to its word.
Frances Wicks
Alphington Road,
Exeter
(by post)
Comments
by Kevin Elliott, Oxford, UK
Saturday, April 25 2009, 7:51AM
“Animal research does work. I recently had major spinal surgery which relieved some severe pain I was in.
This surgery was only possible thanks to research on sheep and goats. Test tubes and computers have their place, but cannot replace the accuracy of the animal model.
If animal research didn't work, my operation wouldn't have worked.
People with health problems and disabilities have rights as well, something the animal rights crowd keep on forgetting.”