“Did you know 92% of drugs passed as 'safe' in animal tests are unsafe or ineffective in humans? That was the admission of the Food and Drugs Agency! Did you know useful drugs and therapies are overlooked due to 'failure' in animal tests? We nearly lost Penicillin as a direct result of vivisection!

There have been countless calls for a full independent enquiry into the efficacy of animal tests. They need an unprecedented comparison with 21st Century human species specific methods of research as proposed by the Safer Medicines Campaign (link below).
In 2002 the House of Lords Select Committee made one such call as a 'matter of urgency'. Similar calls were made by the Animal Procedures Committee themselves in 2003; the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in 2005 and the Weatherall Committee in 2006. There have also been Parliamentary Questions in 2004 and 2006 and many Early Day Motions which the Government have simply snubbed, favouring drug company profits above patient safety!

Did you know 83% of GPs support the call for such an enquiry? One Early Day Motion was supported by nearly 250 MPs.

Vivisection does not 'save lives' and never has. One species can NEVER be used to model another. The results of an animal experiment only tell you about that species! A coincidentally correlating result in humans cannot be regarded as 'science¿. The results of animal tests simply give drug companies a strictly legal alibi when their quack practices result in injury and bereavement for humans. Inevitably, fighting this status quo is resulting in resistance. There are too many people with reputations and money to lose if their pseudoscience is exposed for what it is.

For a genuinely scientific approach to medical research I recommend the following excellent website of the Safer Medicines Campaign
http://www.safermedicines.org/

Please also ask your MP to sign the new EDM 475 calling for this much needed and long overdue enquiry.”

“Hi john really i mean come on real world here do you really think any company would spend £££ on a research facility if a computer could do the same job. Please suggest to me a suitable alternative to the current process if you can.”

“you make me sick, what are we exactly testing for? come on all you supporters of testing on live animals, which by the waydo have a CNS and do feel pain etc... whats your argument? why is it so needed? i think science has evolved past this now hasnt it? your idiots for thinking harming one of this planets creatures is acceptable. end of. you can come back at me with all your arguments but at the end of the day we shouldnt be casuing pain or distress on anyone or anything.”

“generally people who think testing on animals is right, are those people who have been brain washed, the reasearch companies do very well at doing that, WHY HAS THERE NEVER BEEN AN INDEPENDANT ENQUIRY. after all ,labour promised us one, and guess what we never got one, its not fair on the 70% of the population that doesnt want this any more and its against human rights,”

“its all about money, testing on animals is done for insurance to protect the big industries, fact is your more likely to die from adverse drug reactions from it tested on animals 4 times as much as if taken an illegal drug like heroine, can any scientist tell me what drug has ever been invented thats actually saved human lives, its killed more,, and even if you think i am wrong . the time is now to change to other ways, just look up cruk , and see what isnt been achieved, why find a cure if any when businesses are making billions from kind hearted peoples money, animals are exploited in all areas of this society, and its now time for them to be liberated”