UK government agrees to stop the use of animals in scientific research
The government has promised to double funding to reduce and replace the use of animals in scientific research, revealed today. Funding will grow more than 5 000 000 £ during 2010-11.
Use of animals in medical research has contributed immensely in almost every major medical breakthroughs. An estimated 50 to 100 million animals are used annually for research purposes around the world in various research organizations, including universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical industries, biotechnology companies, the defense and commercial institutions that provide test animals.
The money is for the National Center for the replacement, refinement and reduction of animals in research (NC3Rs). The center, founded in 2004, a British priority for the promotion and development of alternatives to animal testing and will receive slightly more than 2 million pounds per year by the government.
Tests on animals is experimenting on animals with certain substances to determine possible effects on humans. Animal testing began in the 17th century, and animal testing in cosmetics began in 1933. In 1969, the Fund for the replacement of animals in medical experimentation (FRAME) was established in the UK for the protection of animals against animal experimentation.
The government said the additional funding, announced last week, would lead to more discoveries, as a breakthrough made by Tissue Engineering. With this technique, the researchers are now able to grow throughout the embryonic kidney cells by individual, rather than harvest them from mice, the research into growing human kidney is simpler and faster. “Animal research plays an important role in medical research and has helped millions of lives. Nevertheless, we should always alternatives and the government is committed to the exchange, refinement and reduction of animals in research. It in an area in which we are leading the world”, said the science minister Ian Pearson.
It is bold or it is crazy? Here is an Oxford-based neurosurgeon who is publicly calling for PETA kills rabbits and more animal experimentation. It is even advocating the use of animal testing for cosmetics! This happened in a speech to a rally organized by Pro-Test, a group that supports the use of animals for research.
“We have a proud history of animal welfare and protection in that country and the work of the NC3Rs builds on this tradition. This increase in funding is secured, the center can not only research fund, but also their impact”, Pearson added. Dr. Vicky Robinson, Chief Executive of the NC3Rs, said: “We are pleased to receive these additional funds between now and 2011. As a young and growing organization, received strong support from the government helps to emphasize the importance of our efforts to to replace, refine and reduce the use of animals in research and science are for the United Kingdom”.
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There is only one thing to say… animal testing is wrong and anyone that contirbutes to it should be tested one themsleves!
please stop animal testing think of the poor animals that are being tested on think if that was a human very ill and near death please stop animal testing
I THINK THAT ANIMAL TESTING IS NOT GOOD AND I’LL LIKE IT STOPPED YOU WOULD NOT LIKE IT IF I DID THAT TO YOU SO PLEASE STOP IT OTHER WISE I WILL DO IT TO YOU. FROM JODI
It immoral to use animals which have done nothing to you.
This is sooooo wrong cause some of them are soooo gross.
STOP ANIMAL TESTING AND YES FUR COATS IS COSITERED ANIMAL TESTING.
I hate the idea of animal testing. I mean imagine being kept in a cage and people cutting you open and sticking tubes up you your whole life. Its disgusting and wrong. All the stories I have heard about animal testing have really effected me and now I don’t beleive in eating meat! I hope it all stops and that there will be another way to find vaccines and drugs to cure people, but testing them on animals is just not right!
At least when they cut animals up for meat they dont suffer for there whole life… Animal testing is wrong and should be banned across the whole world.
think about it. without testing on animals, most of us wouldnt be alive now. unless you refuse every single medicine, vaccine and drug on the planet for every single disease, you will never avoid anything that hasnt been animal tested. yes its a shame when it extends to cosmetics, and needless products that we slap on our faces everyday, but you should be thanking these animals for saving us all. dont be so pathetic. if it isnt them its you. if its not a fluffy bunny its your newborn baby. if its not a specially bred rat its your mum or dad. medicinal testing: yes. cosmetic testing: no. humans are used to test these products just as much and they suffer too. but how else would anyone get better or live a better quality of life??? and also think of the other animals that benefit from it. its a lesser of two evils. for all you good christian people, read up on utilitarianism. the usefulness of an action. the greater good of the majority.
suzi, you don’t see all details, but your point of view is interesting, thank you
the fact of the matter is Suzi there are MANY alternatives to animal testing, which are more effective than animal testing as well, for instance HUMAN TISSUE testing which is where they can create tissue from cells, causing no pain to human or animals AT ALL. Animals do not have the same genetic structure as humans therefore the products and medication tested on animals usually STILL does not work for humans, the reason they use animals is because it is CHEAPER, they do not care about anything other then making as much money as they can. So get your facts right, or just do not even bother making a statement.
and Mobbespel, you are right the government are making changes to REDUCE animal testing but not to COMPLETELY STOP IT. The fact is the government will make money from regulations, imposing fines to companies who use animals, people act as if the government are doing things we wanted them to 20 years ago now, but the fact is they only do it to benefit themselves.
I have seen many types of animal cruilty but none like this. We should rescue these animals and test on the people.the people who test on animals shouldnt be allowed to leave. lock them up like they do the animals! I want to put a computer chip in one of their heads and see how they react to it!!
this is just crule and now the snickers company is doing random testing with animals so now i have to look for a new favorite candy bar
I’m tending to agree with Suzi here. I’m doing a project on animal experimentation myself, and there are a lot more things that bother me and not when it comes to this whole topic. It’s true that I can’t stomach the horror of the fact that yes, tests are conducted on various animal (many of them cute and adorable and ones we’d all possibly keep as pets and love)… but Suzi has come to the same conclusion that I have.
For now, it’s a necessary evil. It’s very saddening to know that the rest of us, humans and animals (in pain), benefit for the better from all the testing done to the laboratory animals. It doesn’t make it any easier. But maybe we should all actually think/help to come up with REAL methods and ideas for helping the animals, than just blurting out, “How would you like it if I did that to you?” Of course, no one’s going to response well to a question like that. If you are all willing to give up the benefits of modern medicine and treatments, even something as common as a cream for an itch, or an aspirin for a headache… then we’ll have come to a better solution than the one we have now.
Please, keep in mind that I’m not saying that anyone is wrong here. It’s just a reminder to all of us to be a little bit more critical about the situation instead of so emotional. Emotional responses can mislead our rational and critical thoughts and obstruct better ideas from coming up.
I don’t understand what gives these scientists the right to put other animals’ lives above our own. Why should they inflict pain and short live spans on innocent animals just to prolong our own? Maybe, without medication etc the human life span wouldn’t drip on for years and most of us would appreciate the years we have. Its not fair for a person in a white coat to think he’s God. Its not on and something HAS to change.
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