The BBC television news covered hundreds of campaigners who marched with their beagles to B&K Universal’s animal breeding site on 16th August. Spokesperson for the campaigners Oppose B&K Universal, Alex Irving, gave interviews highlighting the fact that science now understands how and why beagles – and other animals – fail as predictive models for humans,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Holding the Funding of Animal Experiments to Public Scientific Account
After two planning appeal refusals, B&K have to resort to Govt. lobbyists to get their way: no one will benefit except the animal experimentation community.
It’s a sign of the times when a director of a Beagle breeding unit (B&K Universal) has to take his second planning appeal – refused twice by East Riding Council – to the Government, in order to secure permission to breed Beagles for laboratory experiments, falsely claimed able to ‘predict’ the responses of human patients…. Read more »
Watch the president of our medical Board deliver current science at the EU Parliament, to STOP animal models, now proven to harm patients.
Over a million EU citizens have created a remarkable European Citizens Initiative (ECI) – only the third of its kind – which this time secured a Parliamentary medical science hearing on Monday 11th May, at the EU Parliament. The EU Commission engaged medical expert Dr Ray Greek to testify against the use of laboratory animal… Read more »
Our founder Rebecca Groves has written to the BUAV, following their misleading campaign
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection – BUAV – is conducting a misleading campaign about the amount of funding allocated to lab animal models in medical research experiments, falsely claimed able to ‘benefit human health’. This is a high profile election campaign and we are having to address it via the #VoteCrueltyFree twitter… Read more »
An incredible 83 MPs are now holding what the British Medical Journal describes as the ‘misplaced funding’ of laboratory animal models to effective scientific account
It has been an incredible few days, with 83 members of Parliament now signing EDM 22 and 263, many of them brand new including the courageous Tom Watson MP – a key member in the campaign which shed light on corruption at Rupert Murdoch’s News International – Ian Davidson MP, Michael Meacher MP, David Ward MP, Valerie Vaz MP and… Read more »
We’re delighted that John Mann MP has signed EDM 22
We’re delighted that John Mann MP has added his name to EDM 22, holding the continued public funding of invalid laboratory animal models to thorough medical account. EDM 22 calls for scientists from the vested interests – the animal experimentation community – to agree to debate their medical position in a scientific debate hearing, with conditions endorsed by… Read more »
Delighted that 76 MPs are now holding the continued funding of misleading medical research to public scientific account
76 Parliamentarians have now signed two Early Day Motions, holding the continued public funding of invalid laboratory animal models to thorough medical account: that’s EDM 263 from the previous Parliamentary session and EDM 22 which is current. Four additional new MPs have signed EDM 22 this week: Chris Ruane MP; for Vale of Clwyd; John Robertson MP for… Read more »
73 Parliamentarians – and climbing! – hold laboratory animal models to thorough, public medical account
Great news for Patients Campaigning For Cures!! A total of 73 Parliamentarians have now signed two EDMs, holding the continued public funding of laboratory animal models to thorough medical account. Two additional new MPs have signed EDM 22: Chris Evans MP for Islwyn and Mark Hunter MP for Cheadle. EDM 22 is a life line to… Read more »
We’re delighted that two new MPs have signed Parliamentary EDM 22
Two new MPs have signed EDM 22 this week, Tessa Munt MP for Wells and Mike Wood MP for Batley and Spen. These MPs are adding their weight to the urgent call for up-to-date medical evidence to be heard in scientific hearings that will be presented through the platform of properly moderated, public scientific debates, with conditions… Read more »
70 MPs are now holding misleading laboratory animal models to thorough, human medical account
We are delighted to announce that seventy MPs have now signed EDMs 263 and 22, holding misleading laboratory animal models – falsely claimed able to ‘predict’ the responses of human patients – to thorough public scientific account. This is a huge step forward for PCFC as we campaign for the rapid advancement of effective treatments… Read more »