Animal Testing

PETA takes its hat off to the East Riding Council for denying the application of B&K Universal to build an industrial facility for breeding dogs for laboratories.

The Home Office just released plans for a new UK law on animal experimentation that could lead to more suffering for more animals than ever before.

Just in time for Father’s Day, we had the chance to talk to animal rights advocate and super dad Alistair Currie.

Last week, a report was published examining whether certain non-animal toxicity tests would be fully developed in time to replace animal tests in 2013.

Today, The Sun introduced Britain’s animals to their very own real-life superhero.

I was disturbed to learn that NASA was planning to perform deadly radiation experiments on monkeys as preparation for a possible manned trip to Mars.

Company behind PG tips, Lyons and Lipton teas, has been feeding rabbits unhealthy food to cause extreme hardening of the arteries and then administering tea to see what happens.

Channel 4’s 90-second opinion programme, 4thought.tv is featuring the question, “Should animals have the same rights as humans?”.

When the new coalition government came into power in May, our ears pricked up at its commitment to “work to reduce the use of animals in scientific procedures”.

Jenny Seagrove – a legendary TV, film and stage actor – is far from happy after hearing about the Home Office’s annual figures for animal testing.