Ricky Gervais and Chris Packham have joined Peter Egan in leading celebrity signatures on an Open Letter to Britain’s main advocate for animal experiments, Prof. Colin Blakemore – infamous for sewing kittens’ eyes shut, in experiments that he falsely claimed shed light on the human brain.
To read the full statement by science-based campaign FLOE please visit this link.
Press this week include dog magazines ‘Tails’ and K9 Magazine, tweets below:
.@rickygervais, @ChrisGPackham & @PeterEgan6 are stepping up to protest animal testing in the U.K.: https://t.co/lnRQ9KsZF9 pic.twitter.com/8kJfNupkmX
— Tails Pet Magazine (@tailsmagazines) October 10, 2017
Celebrities @rickygervais @PeterEgan6 @ChrisGPackham unite to ask scientist to explain why he experiments on animals https://t.co/bKXBjt6R77 pic.twitter.com/mgkXVnxRGA
— K9 Magazine (@K9Magazine) October 9, 2017
The Hull Daily Mail (HDM) covered this story on 10th October, and published the Open Letter to Colin Blakemore. The HDM is the main newspaper in Yorkshire, where B&K lab Beagle breeders are based.
YOU CAN HELP!
Six new MPs have signed Parliamentary EDM 66 this week, calling for the Open Letter’s rigorous science hearing. To ask your MP to sign the EDM simply type in your post code at this link.