Category: Rememberance

World Day for Animals in Laboratories – 24th April

Founded by the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) in 1979, World Day for Animals in Laboratories (WDAIL) is on 24th April . A march is organised for the following Saturday. Go to the WDAIL website for more information www.wdail.uk

On this day and during the whole of April there are additional protests and information events to inform the public that animals are still used in research to find cures for humans. That sounds crazy, right? How will it sound in 2033, 2043…..let`s hope some time in the not to distant future many more people are confused as to why we did this to animals and that we are now using non-animal methods.

Please take a look at the pages on our website www.vivisectionexposed.co.uk. What can you do to help animals in laboratories? You probably think you can`t help them, but you can! Here are some ideas for starters (see image).

3.06 million procedures were carried out on animals in laboratories Great Britain in 2021. The figure for 2022 will be released by the Home Office in July 2022. We have everything crossed that the number has reduced and only dream that it will be zero.

We have our final 2 WDAIL 2023 events today, which are at University of Brighton and University of Surrey. Watch out for a compilation video of all 9 events VE hosted for WDAIL.

Let`s make No Animals in Laboratories (N.A.I.L) happen. The day when animal testing is stopped for good! Will you join us in making that day happen?

If you are not sure if there is a facility near you that uses animals in research check the Map of Shame

Together we can make N.A.I.L happen.

If not us, then who?

If not now, then when?

Thank you!

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Britches Day – 20th April

Britches, a stumptail macaque monkey, was born in March 1985. Born into a breeding colony at the University of California, Riverside in the USA. He was taken from his mother the day he was born.

His eyelids were sewn shut and a bulky, heavy electronic sonar device was strapped to his head, that made a constant screeching sound. He was now part of an experiment to test sensory substitution devices for blind people. Left alone in a wire cage with only a wire device wrapped in cloth, his surrogate “mother”. All he could do was cling to it and “nurse” from the bottle that it contained.

On 20th April 1985 Britches was liberated by animal rights activists known as the Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F). He was taken to a veterinarian who removed the black sutures from his eyes and the sonar device from his head. Over the next few months he was shown love and care.

When Britches was 5 months old he was transferred to a sanctuary in Mexico. There, a female monkey adopted him and cared for him as her own. He could now live the life he should have had from the day he was born.

“PETA published photographs, videotapes, and documents obtained by the rescuers, and a year after the raid at the university, documents filed by the university revealed that eight out of the 17 experiments from which animals were rescued were never resumed. The school also stopped permitting baby monkeys’ eyes to be sewn shut, and one instructor stopped experimenting on animals altogether.” (PETA)

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