Posted July 27, 2015 by Alex

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.

No one wants this Beagle unit, not even East Riding Council!! Current science now proves why animals will never be able to predict the responses of human patients. At least twenty papers have been accepted by peer reviewed science journals highlighting this position, and the Editor in Chief at the British Medical Journal further agrees in her Editors choice, June 2014, titled How Predictive and Productive is Animal Research? This article concluded by quoting from the paper it cited:

“If research conducted on animals continues to be unable to reasonably predict what can be expected in humans, the public’s continuing endorsement and funding of preclinical animal research seems misplaced”.

The Secretary of State for local communities has bowed to pressure from one community only – animal experimentation lobbyists – and overturned a wise decision to now allow an expansion which unequivocally fails human patients.

We admire the locals in Grimston, Hull, who have fought this expansion for 5 years and who will continue to fight it. We support the science-based campaign For Life On Earth (FLOE): our medical Board illustrates their evidence. FLOE gave an important interview for the BBC on the day of the decision, calling for B&K Universal to submit a scientist for a thorough medical debate hearing with our experts. Please listen below. The conditions for this hearing, which will be presided over by independent judges from the scientific community, have been endorsed by Michael Mansfield QC.

Please sign our petition! It calls for the PR organisation for the animal model community – ‘Understanding Animal Research’ – to stop wasting time and agree to submit the name of a scientist to debate our experts, in the called for medical hearing. Please SIGN and SHARE our petition here.

Posted April 26, 2015 by Alex

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 page. We have written to the BUAV today, asking them to help us quickly! You can read our letter here

Posted March 31, 2015 by Alex

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 Martin Caton MP, who also supported the EDM’s text in its previous Parliamentary session. We have received instructions to include Pete Wishart MP on the EDM; he has signed it but Parliament closed for the General Election before his name could appear publicly on the EDM’s page.

EDM 22 calls for scientists from the animal model community to agree to debate their medical position in a scientific hearing, with conditions endorsed by Britain’s foremost human rights defence barrister Michael Mansfield QC, who is currently representing the Hillsborough families.

The statistics highlighted in EDM 22 are reflected in the British Medical Journal‘s Editor’s Choice, published in June 2014, titled ‘How Predictive and Productive is Animal Research?‘. This article concluded by quoting from he paper it cited:

“If research conducted on animals continues to be unable to reasonably predict what can be expected in humans, the public’s continuing endorsement and funding of preclinical animal research seems misplaced”.

As founder of this organisation, and a patient with multiple sclerosis, I am constantly reminded of the alarming lack possessed by laboratory rats, for guiding scientists who seek effective treatments – and indeed a cure – for MS. Rats do not suffer from MS, but still scientists obtain very precious research funds to try and artificially induce MS symptoms (not) – wobbly, shaking rats who do not have MS – in what they describe as the EAE rat model of this very damaging, human specific illness. MPs have signed the EDMs to hold the continued funding of such misleading animal models to thorough scientific account.

Medical research funds must be channeled solely towards human-based methods, which actually stand a chance of helping shed light for today’s patients. In 2015, human-based methods are incredibly sophisticated and include gene based medicine described in the radio interview with Dr Ray Greek, here.

If you want to understand more about how current medical science evaluates the failure of such veterinary principles for humans, please visit this link. And to read more about what pharmaceutical companies say about the failure of laboratory animal models in their drug development process, visit this link.

Thank you for your time.

Posted March 22, 2015 by Alex

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 Britain’s foremost human rights defence barrister Michael Mansfield QC.

The statistics highlighted in EDM 22 are reflected in British Medical Journal‘s Editor’s Choice, published in June last year, titled ‘How Predictive and Productive is Animal Research?‘. This article concluded by quoting from he paper it cited:

“If research conducted on animals continues to be unable to reasonably predict what can be expected in humans, the public’s continuing endorsement and funding of preclinical animal research seems misplaced”.

Current medical science can now explain exactly why such veterinary principles are failing humans. Indeed, pharmaceutical companies also acknowledge the failure of laboratory animal models in their drug development process, and write about this this openly and often in the scientific literature.

We’re supporting ‘Time to Hear the Scientific Evidence‘! Please click on the image below; simply type in your post code to ask your MP to sign EDM 22. Help us support Parliamentarians who are holding the continued funding of misleading laboratory animal models to thorough scientific account:

Posted March 13, 2015 by Alex

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 Glasgow North West; Teresa Pearce MP for Erith and Thamesmead and Stephen Lloyd MP for Eastbourne.

EDM 22 is a life line to patients urgently in need effective treatments and cures, who understand why the British Medical Journal‘s article titled ‘How Predictive and Productive is Animal Research?‘ stated that the ‘public’s continuing endorsement and funding of  pre-clinical animal research seems misplaced’. Current medical science understands exactly why veterinary principles are failing humans, as do pharmaceutical companies who acknowledge the failure of laboratory animal models in their drug development process, and write about this this openly and often in the scientific literature.

EDM 22 calls for scientists from the vested interests, the animal experimentation community, to agree to debate their position in a scientific hearing with conditions endorsed by Britain’s foremost human rights defence barrister Michael Mansfield QC.

We’re supporting ‘Time to Hear the Scientific Evidence‘! Please click on the image below; simply type in your post code to ask your MP to sign EDM 22. Help us support Parliamentarians who are holding the continued funding of invalid laboratory animal models to public medical account:

Posted March 6, 2015 by Alex

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 patients desperately in need of effective treatments and cures, who understand that the continued funding of experiments on laboratory animals is failing humans and that current science understands exactly why this is the case. This is especially important becuase the majority of research funds still go towards laboratory animal models.

EDM 22 calls for scientists from the animal experimentation community – who continue to promote such veterinary principles in human medical research – to agree to debate their position in a scientific hearing with conditions endorsed by Britain’s foremost human rights defence barrister Michael Mansfield QC. The statistics highlighted in Parliamentary EDM 22 are additionally reflected by a wide range of experts from the scientific community, including the British Medical Journal: read more.

We’re supporting ‘Time to Hear the Scientific Evidence‘! Please click on the image below; simply type in your post code to ask your MP to sign EDM 22. Help us support politicians who are holding the continued funding of harmful laboratory animal models to effective medical account:

Posted March 3, 2015 by Alex

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 endorsed by Britain’s foremost human rights defence barrister Michael Mansfield QC.

EDM 22 calls for evidence to be heard which entirely invalidates the continued funding of laboratory animal models, that still continue to receive the lion’s share of research funding – despite the fact that current science now proves animals are falsely claimed able to ‘predict’ the responses of human patients. Recognizing this evidence would mean an immediate abandonment of such experiments, on human medical and scientific grounds. This would then entirely free medical research from the damaging grip of veterinary principles, in which it still finds itself held today.

The statistics highlighted in Parliamentary EDM 22 are reflected by the wider scientific community, including the British Medical Journal, read more.

We’re supporting ‘Time to Hear the Scientific Evidence‘! Please click on the image below and simply type in your post code to ask your MP to sign EDM 22. Help us support politicians who are holding the continued funding of invalid laboratory animal models to effective medical account: