Alternatives to animal experiments do exist but not the desire to implement them

The government and pharmaceutical industry are constantly making public pronouncements regarding the fact that animal experiments are necessary in order to find new drugs to prevent human illness and also as a means of testing the safety of these new drugs. The government would like you to believe that they are committed to finding alternatives to animal testing, indeed they have been incredibly generous in donating the princely sum of £650,000 to the 3R's: Reduction, Refinement and Replacement of animals in vivisection. However, when one views the fact that the new animal research centre at Oxford was due to cost £18 million, although this figure must surely have doubled in the last 7 months, coupled with the fact that since the Labour Government came to power the number of animals used in experiments has increased by 150,000 and last week we learned that the Government plan to underwrite the Oxford project to the tune of £1 million of taxpayers' money. Let's not forget this is £350,000 more than they are putting into finding alternatives to animal experiments all of which clearly illustrates the dubious nature of their pronouncements.

Those with a vested interest in the continuation of vivisection have manipulated people into believing that there are no alternatives in using animals to test drugs but once again their deception has been highlighted this week with an article on the Varsity Online website which details a project called SimuGen which is a system that has been created by scientists at Cambridge University which could remove the need for animal testing in the development of drugs.

The problem however seems to be the lack of funds, which are needed in order to make the system viable. The truth of the matter is, there are alternatives to animal experiments and with an input of a modest amount of money into these alternatives, a more efficient way of testing drugs can easily be found. As we have detailed in previous articles, it's not the lack of alternatives that is the problem, its the lack of enthusiasm that is needed to make those alternatives a viable option. Until the corruption that allows a number of influential people who directly benefit from the various industries that have grown up in order to support the vivisection industry, who seem to have a disproportionate amount of influence with a democratically elected government, is eroded, then we will never see a more efficient and cruelty free system developed.

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