Top Universities Play Deaf to Humane Alternatives

One thought that a new age of compassionate and enlighted problem solving was dawning. Computer modelling, standardization of in-vitro testing techniques, human tissue banks, new software developments...and yet some of the world's best universities stand guilty of following horrendously cruel vivisection practices.

Just when you thought that bioinformatics was evolving new techniques for drug testing, here comes the shocker. Research laboratories in UK rated to be among the world's best are not racking their collective brains to find a solution to this one. The legal sanction of barbaric animal experiments in the name of progressive science horrifies.

From scalpel blades cutting open living dogs to passing steel tubes into monkey brains for Parkinson's disease...there seems to be no end to the cruelty. As much as 80% of the cruelest animal tests developed till date are done in British universities. This includes top bastions of research like Cambridge and Oxford. For example in one test for Parkinson's disease drugs are injected into monkey brains via steel tubes. Other horrendous ones include wiring frames to cats' heads to simulate migraines and gassing guinea pigs with ozone to study lung disease.

According to the CEO of The National Anti-Vivisection Society, despite accurate alternate testing methods, university researchers in Britain today still rely on animal testing methods. Worse, more animals are being used in animal experimentation compared to 2001.