Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies ...

Animals starved to death at a testing laboratory after staff forgot to feed them for nine days, it has emerged, as the numbers of animals undergoing testing in Britain last year rose to over 4 million ...

Every year, millions of animals are used in laboratories, and for many people, the image is immediate and uncomfortable: ...

The government has announced plans to stop scientific experiments on animals, except in some rare situations. They say they want other testing methods to be used instead, including a greater use of ...

TO mark International Primate Day (Sept 1), I sponsored a European Parliament Declaration, calling for an EU-wide ban on the use of non-human primates in animal experimentation. With the EU's ...

Each year, more than 4.12 million experiments are carried out on animals in the UK - the highest figure in twenty years. That figure appears to be rising despite the coalition Government's 2010 ...

I am writing in response to the article "Animal use criticised by report" (The Argus, February 8). A report by the Sussex University student campaign group Violence-Free Science says that the ...

Almost 10,000 experiments were conducted on animals, including monkeys and pigs, at the Porton Down military research base last year, it has been revealed. All scientific experiments on animals have ...