About the Campaign

Operation Beagle welcomes Chris Packham to the campaign with Ricky Gervais and Peter Egan

Dogs, and other animals, share our lives as treasured family members, so it is shocking that thousands of dogs, cats and other beautiful animals are bred for cruel laboratory experiments and are, as such, completely excluded from the protection of the Animal Welfare Act and its 'unnecessary suffering clause'.


On 7th February MPs met in Westminster Hall to debate Peter Egan's Parliament petition: 'Change the law to include laboratory animals in the Animal Welfare Act'. This debate was opened by Martyn Day MP, and participating cross-party MPs called with urgency for the science hearing on animal testing, as outlined in Parliament EDM 175.


This science hearing will judge claims that results from animal experiments can predict the responses of humans; the hearing will be judged by a panel of independent experts from the relevant science fields, including evolutionary biology, complexity science, chaos theory, clinical research, drug development, basic research and philosophy of science. This hearing is urgently needed to prove to the Government that their departments are being misled by an outdated financial vested interest which is entirely disconnected from current medical and scientific knowledge. We now know that animal experiments are entirely failing the search for human treatments and cures - for the same reason human patients do not consult vets.


Please take action to help: ask your MP to support the science hearing outlined by EDM 175, simply type in your postcode at this link.

Dogs, and other animals, share our lives as treasured family members, so it is shocking that thousands of puppies, cats and millions of other beautiful animals are excluded from the protection of the Animal Welfare Act and its 'unnecessary suffering clause', in order to be bred for cruel laboratory experiments.


In February 2022, MPs met in Westminster Hall to debate Peter Egan's Parliament petition: 'Change the law to include laboratory animals in the Animal Welfare Act'. Please visit this page to watch clips of the participating MPs, as they call with urgency for laboratory animals to be included in the Act. The MPs spotlight the need for the science hearing on animal experiments, as outlined in Parliament EDM 25.  This hearing will enable independent expert scientists to judge false claims that results from animal tests can be used to predict the responses of humans. The hearing's judges will be drawn from the relevant science fields, including evolutionary biology, complexity science, chaos theory, clinical research, drug development, basic research and philosophy of science.


The hearing is needed to prove to the Government that they are being misled by those with an outdated financial vested interest in animal experiments, which is completely opposed to current medical knowledge. The laws which first mandated these experiments are 84 years old: today we know that animal experiments are entirely failing the search for human treatments and cures.


Please take action to help: simply  type in your postcode at this link to ask your MP to support the science hearing and sign EDM 25.

Parliamentary Support for the Science Hearing

Patricia Gibson MP

"Let the facts speak for themselves, let's have a public scientific hearing on animal experiments: let's put an end to the unnecessary suffering of our fellow creatures."

Tan Dhesi MP

"Penicillin's use, for humans, was delayed by a staggering 10 years because it had absolutely no effect on rabbits. And the polio vaccine was delayed by an even longer 40 years, because of erroneous, misleading experiments on monkeys; and the long lamentable list continues."

Wera Hobhouse MP

"Over 3/4s of the public want an end to animal testing. The 'necessary evil' justification is no longer publicly acceptable, we should put an end to this unnecessary injustice. Banning laboratory experiments on those creatures is ethically and publicly favourable, and supported by scientists."

Martyn Day MP, pictured with our Patron Peter Egan

As the primary sponsor for Parliament EDM 25, Martyn Day MP is committed to a ban on the cruel and medically failed practice of animal experiments, attending each and every one of our Parliament debates, so far!


Martyn Day MP says: “The Government is ignoring a wealth of peer reviewed scientific evidence that clearly shows animal experiments are not working: animals are simply not capable of predicting – in advance – what will happen in a human, in the fields of disease research and the safety testing of new medicines. That is why I have tabled this EDM, to shine a much needed spotlight on the urgent need to demonstrate, in a public scientific hearing, the widely reported medical failure of animal experiments, in the search for human treatments and cures. We urgently need to redirect funding to human relevant science, which is available today and comes with a track record of success." 


Patricia Gibson MP says:

"The science hearing called for by Parliament EDM 25 will enable funding to be redirected to human-relevant science, such as gene-based medicine, where treatments today are able to match the individual DNA of each unique patient. Scientists report that these gene-based treatments are different even for identical twins, such is the advanced knowledge provided by this field of personalised medicine." 

The experts who illustrate our scientific evidence

The experts who illustrate our scientific evidence are led by the late Dr. Niall Shanks and his research partner, medical doctor Dr. Ray Greek, this team has an impressive track record, defeating plans by Cambridge University to build a multi-million pound primate laboratory in 2002, with a ruling against that laboratory on 'national interest, medical and scientific grounds'.


Says Dr. Greek: "Recent developments in evolutionary and developmental biology, genetics, gene regulation, gene expression and gene networks gained in large part as a result of the Human Genome Project, in addition to advances in understanding complex systems, have significantly increased our understanding of why animals have no predictive value for human response to drugs, or the pathology of human diseases."

TWEET DECISION-MAKERS IN PARLIAMENT

#OperationBeagle

Follow the simple steps below, to take urgent action today


1. Copy the text in our tweet here, reproduced below:


I'm horrified by the torment inflicted on #puppies bred by laboratory dog breeder, MBR Acres. Please ban this now & mandate the #EDM25 #science hearing, to stop lies about human medicine which fund this cruelty. @GOVUK @RishiSunak @AP #OperationBeagle #Dogs #EndAnimalTesting


2. Click 'Quote Tweet' on this post by Chris Packham.


3. Paste your text as a comment above Chris' tweet.


4. Tweet your post to Rishi Sunak PM and the UK Government!



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