Primate Research

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> new press release

> Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:54:47 +0100

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> EMBARGOED UNTIL JUNE 3

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>

> As government decides whether to

> allow massive new research centreÅ 

> Public says ŒNo¹ to

> Primate research

>

> A large majority of respondents to a newly-commissioned public opinion poll

> say that laboratory experiments on primates are morally unacceptable. In a

> companion survey, roughly half those who gave an opinion also said that

> information obtained from such experiments can have no direct relevance to

> humans. This is despite claims by pro-vivisection lobbyists that primates

> are the most useful of all Œanimal models¹.

>

> The NOP polls (see Notes) were commissioned by Animal Aid to mark the

> national campaign group¹s publication of a major new report setting out the

> scientific case against the laboratory use of primates for drug testing and

> research into neurological conditions and infectious diseases. The latest

> Home Office figures show that 3,342 monkeys were used for such tests in 2001

> - an increase of 13% over the previous year. Britain currently uses more

> monkeys than any other European country. But the total could be boosted

> dramatically if the government allows Cambridge University to build Europe¹s

> largest primate research centre on the outskirts of the city. (See Notes.)

>

> Tony Blair and Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury, have already declared their

> support for the project, thereby potentially prejudicing the independence of

> a public inquiry into the issue that was staged at the end of last year. The

> verdict is due this summer.

>

> Animal Aid¹s new report is called Monkeying Around With Human Health: the

> cost to people of experiments on primates. The author, Dr Ray Greek, Medical

> Director of Europeans For Medical Advancement (www.curedisease.com), is one

> of the world¹s leading advocates of the scientific case against the use of

> animals for medical research.

 

 

 

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