Animal Testing

Animal Testing Statistics
Animal testing statistics is a touchy and sensitive subject for many individuals. There is a lot of hue and cry over the ever increasing animal testing statistics from organizations working in the field of animal rights. To know more about the animal testing statistics, read on...

Animal Testing in Cosmetic Industry
Animal testing in the cosmetic industry is known to use inhuman methods to test the various products. Here’s a look at some factors associated with animal testing in cosmetic industry.

Animal Testing Pros
Animal testing has been a very controversial topic from the very beginning. Read on for some pros of animal testing…

Animal Testing Facts
It is sad that the self proclaimed ‘superior’ in the animal kingdom should use products and medication at the expense of the death and abuse of lower species. It is important to stay updated on the facts about animal testing.

Arguments Against Animal Testing
There are no real alternatives to animal experimentation, as alternatives are those options that arise in order to replace something of somewhat the same worth, and there is nothing else in the world that is quite as useless, harmful and misleading as animal experimentation. This is why animal rights activists all over the world should start declining medicines that have been tested on animals.

Defining "Not tested on animals"
Testing of chemicals and consumer products accounts for roughly 10 to 20 percent of the use of animals in laboratories (or approximately two to four million animals yearly) in the U.S.

Vivisection Study Finds 115 Million Animals Used in Tests Worldwide
Liechtenstein and San Marino are the only countries which have banned animal testing altogether

Captivity
This is basically describing how I feel about animals being in captivity, and there will soon be an article about how I feel about animal testings, its disgusting…x

Test Driven
Tipu Aziz sparked a furore last week when he spoke out for vivisection. Now he has gone a step further, defending animal testing in the cosmetics industry.

US Agriculture Chiefs Increase Tests Tenfold for Mad Cow Disease
Agriculture authorities in the US have ordered a tenfold increase in animal testing to shore up international beef sales badly hit by public reaction to a case of mad cow disease. The move had been widely expected after the Bush administration came under intense pressure from Congress,...

Undercover Investigation Exposes Cruelty In Monkey Lab
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) has conducted the first ever undercover investigation in a German animal laboratory, revealing the suffering of thousands of monkeys subjected to a life of deprivation, fear, torment and toxic poisoning behind the closed doors of Covance, one of the world's largest contract testing companies.

Humane Society Demands Wyeth Takes Responsibility For Horses
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is calling upon Wyeth Inc. to establish a fund to provide for the 20,000 or more pregnant mares whose ‘services’ are no longer needed following Wyeth’s decision to drastically reduce their production of Premarin? - a hormone replacement therapy derived from the urine of pregnant horses.

France Tries To Overturn EU Animal Testing Ban
France and a group of cosmetics ingredients manufacturers have launched legal action to try and overturn the 7th amendment to the EU Cosmetics Directive, which contains a combined "animal testing and sales" ban for cosmetics and toiletries.

Secret French move to block animal-testing ban
France, home to the world's largest cosmetics company, L'Oréal, has quietly launched a legal action aimed at killing off a historic EU ban on animal-tested cosmetics, the Guardian has learned.

Reduced Animal Testing Called For in Report
The Animal Procedures Committee (APC) of the government of the United Kingdom has issued a report in which it states that some experimental drugs need not be tested on animals before being tested on human beings.

Record Amount of Animal Testing Data Released
The largest amount of information about experimentation in laboratories in the United Kingdom involving animals that has ever been made public was recently released after a judge overturned an injunction against publication of the material.

Alternative Drug-Testing Method Announced
The European Commission for Research (ECR) recently announced a method of testing drugs for fever-causing agents called pyrogens that if widely adopted could prevent the killing in laboratories of approximately 200,000 rabbits per year.

Researchers to Conduct SARS Tests on Animals
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organization for Animal Health have asked a team of Australian scientists to infect a number of chickens, pigs and cats with the virus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) to help determine if the disease originated in animals.

Tests on Monkeys Raise Hopes of Cheap Cure for Malaria
Scientists have raised hopes of developing a cheap new cure for malaria after successful laboratory tests on monkeys. Low doses of the treatment are said to have cured animals deliberately infected with the disease. The drug works by preventing malaria parasites from reproducing...