AR-News: 76% oppose vivisection

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(From Alternative News, Spring 2004)

76% AGAINST ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

An opinion poll of 1,000 adults, conducted in August 2003 by TNS Media, on 
behalf of the BUAV, produced interesting and quotable results:

Q. Do you think that the government should, as a matter of principle, 
prohibit experiments on any live animals which cause  pain, suffering, 
distress or lasting harm?

A.  76% said yes

By definition, all the 2.73 million animal experiments in Britain (in 2002) 
have the potential to cause pain, distress, suffering or lasting harm

Q. Do you believe that the Government should have a key responsibility for 
funding the development of non-animal test methods?

A. 70% said yes.

All opinion polls that ask a question about developing non-animal research 
methods show a large majority of the public in favour of more effort going 
into this work.

Keep these figures handy to use in your next letter to the newspapers!


Animal experiments have:
a 63% failure rate when detecting human carcinogens
a 75-95% failure rate for detecting drug side effects
a 70% failure rate for detecting drugs which cause birth defects
Success rates lower than those achieved by uneducated guesswork.

This is not science!!



Recommended website: The Absurdity of vivisection
http://vivisection-absurd.org.uk/

Information on animal research available free by EMail from 
vivisectionkills at hotmail.com

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