“Your child or your dog!” For decades–at the mention of replacing animals in laboratories–the animal research industry has sounded this cry, and in “Life or death?” (Op-Ed, July 26) John D. Aquilino ...

The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS), a nonprofit devoted to the advancement of science without harming animals, will ...

Protesters for and against animal testing are mustering banners and arguments ahead of a first-ever pro-vivisection protest in Oxford tomorrow. The demonstration in favour of a new animal-testing lab ...

The problem with vivisection, argues Derrick Jensen, is that we’re experimenting on the wrong sort of animals. To the dismay of many of my friends, I’m not unalterably opposed to vivisection. In fact, ...

Vivisection polarises British society like almost no other issue. On the one hand, medical researchers claim that animal experiments are vital for human progress and the elimination of diseases. On ...

About 115 million animals were used in scientific research globally in 2005, according to an estimate based on official national figures and extrapolations from the number of scientific papers that ...

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