The Chief Executive of the BUAV, Michelle Thew, has written to the European Animal Research Association (EARA) over comments on our website that challenged claims made following an undercover investigation at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, by their partner group Soko-Tierschutz. Neuroscience research on macaques at the Max Planck Institute, Tubingen (MPI): a reply to the BUAV The BUAV and their German counterparts, Soko-Tierschutz, c

To describe animal testing as ‘outdated and fundamentally flawed’ is inaccurate and unhelpful Article published in The Parliament magazine The Parliament Magazine recently featured a piece by Emily McIvor claiming that animals were poor predictors of human responses to drugs and that nine out of 10 drugs tested on animals fail during human trials, yet this fundamentally misunderstands how animals are used. Animals are used to test the safety of the drug, not its efficacy.<br>