 Hello and welcome to the Big Animal Research Debate. We believe that we should ban all forms of animal research because there are alternatives. The audience had not heard any alternative offered from them. Things like computer modelling and such like mean that it is becoming less and less necessary. But just removing the animal research wouldn't necessarily make anything actually safer for the public. We clearly demonstrated that there are alternatives and we are not bound to use animals. The Big Animal Research Debate aims to encourage debate at schools and universities across the country. One motion, one week, dozens of debates. If we ban animal testing in this country all would happen if we moved to other countries that are less regulated. Basically a trial and error process during which all you do is force animals to be tortured. How will dogs and cats get medicine, antibiotics and flea, flea drugs? Animals feel pain, just like you and I. But in the UK we have one of the most strictly regulated systems for animal research in the entire world.