Member

I contest that assertion. As we have heard regarding previous laws, great strides have been taken in technologies such as in-vitro culture, organoid creation, and genomic, proteomic, metabolomic and other molecular techniques in general, to obviate animal use. It is also a fact, apart from reasonable welfare and ethical objections, that it is far more expensive to use animals if non-animal use solutions are possible. That is a great disincentive to use animals. I commend His Majesty’s Government for their recently announced policy paper, Replacing Animals in Science, a Strategy to Support the Development, Validation, and Uptake of Alternative Methods, a detailed plan to expedite the reduced use of animals in research, which I fully support.