After attending the Newcastle University Animal Lab demo, as planned, I was intrigued to find out more about animal testing in the name of science, research and cosmetics. I personally cannot find myself to support it, even in cases such as 'Cancer Research UK', 'Parkinson's UK' and 'The British Heart Foundation'. This may seem controversial and ignorant on my part, but I will never agree that testing on animals is the only or best way to find out more about any illness or find a prevention or cure. I feel that animals deserve a lot more rights than they have, one of which should be to never be subjected to such cruelty or torture especially when it is so in vain. Even if we did not test on humans for humans, with todays science we can create artificial (and very realistic) skin, stem cells and so much more. Cruelty to animals is cheaper and far less reliable.
List of charities which do fund or conduct experiments on animals:
Whilst it is not legal to test on animals for cosmetics in the UK, it is not illegal for the products to be tested outside of the UK but still sold in the UK.
List of some of the companies that test on animals:
'Save The Harlan Beagles': This is a campaign aiming to stop beagles being bred for medical science and vivisection. These dogs are bred purely for sickening and torturous experiments.
I definitely plan to attend some demos and protests for this cause.
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