Vivisection is the practise of using live animals to test the safety of products, food and medicine.
92% of drugs tested on animals fail in human trials. (Source)
Why Animal Testing is Bad Science:
- Good science vs. bad science
- The Use of Animals in Research – U.S. National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS)
- Animal experimentation: The multi-billion dollar lie
- Lab mice can’t help us in the fight against cancer
- Drugs that work in mice often fail when tried in people
- How and why animal research is poor science – video
- Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: the human cost of experiments on animals
Alternatives to animal testing:
- CAAT – Centre for Alternatives to Animal Testing
- Organ chips could replace animal experiments
- Organ on a chip
- How tech could spell the end of animals in drugs testing
- XCellR8 – product testing lab which doesn’t use animals
Irish Links:
- Vivisection – Irish Anti-Vivisection Society (IAVS)
- Animal testing at TCD – Independent.ie
- Animal Experimentation Statistics for Ireland
Organisations opposed to animal testing:
- IAVS – Irish Anti-Vivisection society
- Animal-Free Research UK
- EUSAAT – European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing
- NAVS – National Anti-Vivisection Society (U.S.A.)
- Cruelty Free International
- Humane Society International
- Stop Vivisection Now
- Uncaged
- Animal Aid
- Antidote Europe
- Cancer Research Without Animals
- Universities Challenged
