BUAV TV: Cambridge University animal tests

This groundbreaking undercover investigation in 2000/1 led to the BUAV taking the Home Office to court in a Judicial Review. The Government failed to ensure -- under the Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 - that the suffering of animals used in experiments was kept to a minimum, and underestimated the level of suffering of marmoset monkeys at Cambridge University.

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[suenaamy]

Update: Dr. Vincent McKee (a.k.a. Patrick Murray) now calls himself "Patrick Kelly." This further change in name happened because Sky News AGAIN exposed him in March 2011 as a fraudster and let it be known that he went by the name of Patrick Murphy.Do NOT approach University and Academy Tutors (UAT) based in Jesson House, Coventry.If you pass on your credit/debit card details to UAT, your money WILL BE STOLEN.Neither Coventry Police nor Coventry Trading Standards can prosecute him.

[suenaamy]

WARNING TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. Vincent McKee,who used to run a company in Coventry offering private tuition,called ICUT (UK),has now changed the name of the company to University and Academy Tutors,or UAT (GB). DO NOT approach ICUT/UAT for your tutorial needs. Dr. Vincent McKee was outed as a FRAUDSTER by Sky News in January 2011.As a result, McKee has changed his company's name and HIS OWN NAME : he now calls himself Patrick Murray,and he is STILL DEFRAUDING STUDENTS.Just Google his name!

[PonyMadGirl94]

@falnegle i fully agree :) to be honest it can be reduced, the ammount of animals that are tested on. i find it so so so cruel and at times very unecassary.

[berryllll]

des fous

[falnegle]

please stop testing on animals of this nature. they dont deserve it. If you want test subjects that are more closely related to humans, there are plenty in jails and prisons around the country

[Casshyr]

@PseudoPoiesis "would I shove it in a little cage" => actually scientists DON'T want to shove animals in little cages. This create extra stress and may complicate the experimental results (i.e. is the phenotype due to stress or actually due to an injected bacteria/virus?) What you see is a result of lack of funding. Do you know how much a lab technician makes? Less than a bus driver, that's what! Do you know how much an average bio researcher with PhD makes? go check it out.

[Casshyr]

@PseudoPoiesis if I want to understand how stress hormones work, I need to induce stress to see that. Same thing with diseases. If I want to see microRNA and its relation to say cancer, I need to induce tumours in animals. This does not necessarily mean the results are not applicable to humans., since knowing what an animal's microRNA does in this species can be applicable to many other species. I'm sure you understand the concept of homologs.

[Casshyr]

@divdo1 if you are talking in terms of drug development, i would partially agree with you. but in terms of BASIC advance in biology, no, you are wrong. For example: microRNA. This existence in animal is first classified in worms. If we don't study worms, the discovery of microRNA would be delayed. Another example is IPS stem cells. This is first done in mice, and is now a hot topic in today's stem cell research.

[divdo1]

@Casshyr training in life science eh? when you really think about it all you need to know is BASIC biology. The advances in science that we are at now have nothing to do with animal experimentation, fact! Every species on earth is different genetically, we react differently to food, drink, drugs etc. even groups of people react differently to the same thing. Immune systems are different, so absol no need for this kind of testing as its extremely unreliable. Doctors are against this. Need More?

[divdo1]

@Genukie So we have to act like monsters to stop ourselves becoming monsters? You talk as if we are almost God like. what's the next level, invincibility? We will never be rid of all diseases, so the scientists will never cease from harming animals in such a way as they do in the video. Man-kind has been a plague on this planet in the short time we've been here. For any good we've done we've done 1000x bad. Self destructive species. I'm a positive guy but this vid makes me sick of my own kind.