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Urge the Government to End Experiments on Animals

The Labour government promises a future without testing on animals. Every day of delay in fulfilling this promise costs countless animal lives. It’s time for the government to act.

Every year, millions of experiments are conducted on animals in Great Britain

  • Animals are caged, poisoned and burned, even though tests on animals are not required by law for assessing the safety of new medicines and computational methods can outperform tests on animals in many regulatory toxicology tests.
  • Animals are subjected to painful and debilitating experiments to mimic human disease and test new drugs. Yet the failure rate of the drug development process is 95%, with animal experimentation being a major contributing factor to this.
  • Novel drugs take 10–15 years to reach the market and cost over £1.5 billion to develop. Adopting advanced, non-animal methods could save £139–574 million per new drug.

We must move away from all experiments using animals and towards more advanced and humane methods.

It’s time for the Research Modernisation Deal!

PETA's Research Modernisation Deal outlines a six-point strategy for replacing the use of animals in biomedical research and regulatory testing. With a transition to animal-free methods, the UK public could benefit from more disease treatments and safer products for use.

Finally – and crucially – this would help end the unimaginable suffering of millions of animals every year.

Please sign our petition urging the government to implement an effective strategy to end animal experimentation, with clear milestones and deadlines to ensure success.

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Urge the Government to Commit to Ending All Experiments on Animals

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To: Home Office; Department for Science, Innovation and Technology; and Department of Health and Social Care

Please commit to the EU’s final goal of fully replacing the use of animals in scientific procedures to ensure that the UK is not left behind – in either animal-welfare standards or scientific innovation – in the wake of Brexit. Although EU Directive 2010/63/EU (the Directive) has been transposed into the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, the UK has not formally adopted the EU’s ultimate goal of replacing the use of animals in scientific procedures, as reflected in Recital 10 of the Directive. We, the undersigned, respectfully request that the government take this official step immediately, establishing a clear policy within a legislative framework, mandating an end to experimentation on animals, and providing a clear strategy and timeline for achieving this goal. Redirecting funding away from unreliable and unethical tests on animals and instead investing in superior, non-animal methods will benefit humans, animals, and the future of science in the UK.

Yours sincerely,  

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