STAMP IT OUT

These were today's Sun Newspaper front page headlines. Understandably, the article both expressed and triggered feelings of outrage and revulsion for people who abuse animals. Yet the figure of two hundred animals a day being maimed and killed doesn't tell the true story about animal abuse in this country: every year over 2 million animals suffer a similar if not worse fate inside British vivisection laboratories.

As a society we remain comparatively silent on the subject of animal abuse in British Laboratories. As a society we largely accept the pro-vivisection dogma about it being a 'necessary evil' for the 'greater good'. It is said the UK has the best animal welfare standards in the world, but it is these standards that allow sentient creatures to be irradiated, brain damaged, poisoned, burned, tortured and ultimately killed. in order to uphold a science that is brutal and bound by archaic tradition - a science that is out of step with progress and which would be far better served using the alternative techniques that have been developed with technological advances.

It is more than proper that those who abuse animals in the home should be vilified in the media. Yet why does society reward with a fat grant paid out of taxpayer's money those who have committed the same crimes in a laboratory ? How is it that they are considered deserving of awards for work that is slowly but surely being dismissed as scientifically irrelevant, misleading, and dangerous? What makes their torture of a sentient creature worthy of accolade when there is a scream of outrage at the atrocities committed by the layperson on a helpless puppy or kitten? Torture and brutality are the same in any language or environment. It seems the only difference lies in whether you sugar-coat the words to describe the act.

Remember the Oxford Two, who, weren't maimed and then killed quickly. They endured 15 years of abuse at the hands of Oxford University professors. 15 years in which they were kept in a cage, never seeing the sunlight, never feeling the wind, never experiencing what they should: FREEDOM. The only thing they had to look forward to was a white-coated professor coming to unlock their cage and drill more holes into their skulls.

It's images like this that keep the animal rights movement strong, knowing that day in day out, animals are going through unimaginable horrors. It's for this reason we will defeat Oxford University and ultimately the powers that strive to keep these abominations going.

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