ANIMAL AID
An Anti-Vivisection Battleground
Animal Aid is the UK's largest animal rights group and
one of the longest established in the world, having been founded in 1977.
They campaign against all forms of animal abuse and promote a cruelty-free
lifestyle.
The University of Cambridge twice had its plans refused by the
local authority, but appealed again. This led to a public
inquiry. The inspector's final report
was a triumph for all those opposed to these pitiless and unscientific
experiments. He declared that the University had failed to show that the
proposed brain research was in the national interest. However, John Prescott
has swatted aside the report and given the university permission to proceed.
The University claims that the experiments will provide insights into
human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Yet we know that there
are crucial differences between monkeys and people; and the artificial
way in which the disease symptoms are induced also means that the experiments
will be of no use to human medicine. (For more on
this see the Dr Hadwen report). The Cambridge
proposal has become a vitally important battleground where the wider arguments
over animal experiments will be fought out.
Animal Aid played a leading role in the successful opposition to the
earlier attempts by Cambridge University to gain planning permission for
the primate lab. Animal Aid has now brought together the leading national
anti-vivisection groups to support X-CAPE and to bring about a co-ordinated
response.
More about the background to the campaign
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Find out more about Animal Aid and the work that they do
at www.animalaid.org.uk
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