Animal Testing

PETA is urging UK leaders to adopt the Research Modernisation Deal, as animal experiments get in the way of safe treatments and vaccines.

Following years of pressure from PETA US, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration has announced a groundbreaking decision to delete all animal tests for anti-fatigue health claims.

Barry Callebaut, the “world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate”, nixes cruel and deadly animal tests after hearing from PETA affiliates.

Most primates used in British laboratories are born in Africa or Asia before being shipped to the UK in cramped and gruelling conditions.

Here are some examples of the innovative, cutting-edge, human-relevant methods researchers are using to study the novel coronavirus.

Experimenters at Newcastle University put monkeys under gruelling physical strain then killed and dissected them.

Experimenters spent decades studying monkeys to see how imprisonment in laboratories drives them mad.

Inspire students to be interested in STEM fields by exploring the innovative non-animal methods being developed to fight COVID-19.

With hospitals overrun with COVID-19 patients desperate for treatment, there was no time to waste on animal trials in developing life-saving ventilators.

The release of a Home Office report reveals that experimenter “oversights” led to the suffering of at least 2,680 animals in 2018.