Animal Testing

Nerve-agent poisoning, difficulty breathing, and death – find out how guinea pigs are tormented in UK and EU laboratories.

PETA calls on all parties to make the same commitment to animals in laboratories.

In a newly published paper, PETA scientists present a watertight case for ending two inescapably cruel experiments on animals.

Rabbits are mild-tempered, which makes them easy to handle, confine, and breed. Experimenters torment tens of thousands of them in laboratories across the UK and EU.

The Netherlands is paving the way for animal-free innovation by funding a new – humane – biomedical research centre that will showcase non-animal technologies for drug development.

From leaving animals to starve over the weekend to contaminating fish tanks, here are 10 examples of horrific incidents that took place in UK laboratories in 2022.

Animals are sentient beings who feel joy and hope and show affection. Yet in laboratories in the UK, they’re subjected to experiments like those listed below that cause them immense pain and distress.

Experimenters are licensed to torture and kill hamsters – right on our doorstep.

The forced swim test is no longer to be used as a model of human depression or for studies of anxiety in the UK.

New footage filmed at a beagle breeding facility in Cambridgeshire shows distressed dogs whimpering as they’re forced into cages and sent away for painful experiments.