April 24th: World Day For Laboratory Animals
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24th April, 2012 15h27
Tuesday April 24th is World Day for Laboratory Animals, recognised by the United Nations and commemorated on every continent of the world to highlight the suffering of animals in experiments.
Founded by the
National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) in 1979, the date marks the birthday of a past President – Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, a great champion of animals. All over the world there will be activity during what is known as Lab Animal Week.
This year the NAVS is making the focus of the campaign a public awareness drive highlighting that animal experiments are not only cruel but misleading and that there are advanced alternatives available. Lab Animal Week 2012 falls at a critical time with the Government expected to introduce proposals for new legislation on animal experiments in the next session of Parliament.
Jan Creamer Chief Executive of the NAVS: “Animals are burnt, blinded, mutilated, poisoned and given cancer in an industry shrouded in secrecy, protected by Governments, and the propaganda of a multi-billion pound industry. Animal experiments are unreliable, unethical and unnecessary. We need to see from the Government a real commitment to end this suffering.”
This week NAVS supporters will be distributing leaflets in the streets all over the country and shops are also distributing information. The NAVS sister group
Animal Defenders International (ADI) is also involved in events to mark World Day for Laboratory Animals in the USA and South America.
Gandhi once wrote: “Vivisection is the blackest of all the black crimes that man is at present committing against God and his animal creations.” No other animals have such systematic suffering inflicted on them in such a cold and calculated way.
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