Animal Testing

World’s largest chemical testing programme – Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) – also happens to be the world’s largest animal killing programme.

Almost 100 PETA supporters took part in at Marble Arch in London to demand the government not to adopt lower standards of protection for animals in laboratories.

The government finally unveiled its grand plan to reduce the number of animals used for vivisection.

The world’s largest animal testing programme – which has already killed an estimated 200,000 animals – is killing tens of thousands more animals than the law says it should.

The statistics for 2010 show a shameful but sadly predictable rise in the number of animals subjected to experiments in the UK.

PETA has sent an urgent letter to Dr Hamid Fazeli, head of the Iranian Space Agency, requesting that he call off plans to launch a monkey into space.

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.