From a retired professor of medicine
I would like to add to your excellent leader on animal experiments (7 August, p 3). The whole point of the UK regulations is that animals must not suffer any pain as the result of experiments. To this end the regulations are carefully written and policed by local ethics committees. No other country has anywhere near similar standards. If animal rights terrorists cause this work to be located overseas they will be responsible for causing real pain and suffering to experimental animals.
All current medicines come from experiments on animals. Anyone being treated with heart drugs, antibiotics, drugs for depression and so on, owes their treatment to such experiments. Any medical advances that may come from genetics will also depend on animal testing.
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