To raise awareness about cruel animal laboratory tests and their non-animal alternatives, the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) organizes a global event on April 24 known as World Day for Animals in Laboratories or World Day for Laboratory Animals.
National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) is the world’s first organization campaigning against animal experiments and established the Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research (LDF) in 1973 to support and fund advanced non-animal methods of scientific and medical research. Lord Dowding was a British Air Chief Marshal and a devoted anti-vivisectionist. The World Day for Animals in Laboratories organizes on April 24 as it was the day Lord Dowding was born.
Every year millions of animals suffer and die in laboratory experiments that can never be trusted. The laboratory tests differ in human and effected them in three ways
- Species differences Each species responds differently to substances, therefore animal tests are an unreliable way to predict effects in humans.
- Human diseases in laboratory animals are not naturally occurring so need to be artificially created; they are different from the human condition they are attempting to mimic. This also affects results.
- Studies have shown that living in a laboratory environment can affect the outcome of an experiment, with test results differing due to the animal’s age, sex, diet, and even their bedding material. So results vary from laboratory to laboratory.
The safer, effective and advanced scientific methods are there that can replace the clinical trial on animals.
Information source: https://worlddayforlaboratoryanimals.org/