The Dr Hadwen Trust is a British charity that funds and promotes non-animal techniques to replace animal experiments. As well as rescuing animals from extreme suffering, their work benefits humans with the development of more relevant and reliable science. Better science is accomplished by using tissue samples and computer simulations in research. On September 8th 2009 experts came together in Rome for the 7th World Congress on Alternatives to animal testing. They support the "3 R's" of alternative research: replacement, reduction and refinement of animal testing. The part of the public worried about finding cures for disease needs to understand that the tormenting of the 115 million animals now in research facility cages around the world is not helping, and has never cured any disease.
For how many years now have we had the war on cancer, and on diabetes and heart disease and so on? How many fundraising runs and walks, auctions and sales? Does the money raised from these efforts simply go into torturing more mice, dogs and monkeys, while the incidence of these diseases continues to grow?
Have you ever been on a walk to raise funds for non-animal research techniques? You can do so now by joining the "virtual walk", organized to urge the European Union to update their 20 year old animal experimentation laws. Think of all that has changed in stem cell, DNA and computer imaging and simulation research in the last 20 years! No more animals need suffer (nor did they ever). To join the "march" go to: http://www.makeanimaltestinghistory.org/the-march
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