“Your child or your dog!” For decades–at the mention of replacing animals in laboratories–the animal research industry has sounded this cry, and in “Life or death?” (Op-Ed, July 26) John D. Aquilino ...

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Protesters for and against animal testing are mustering banners and arguments ahead of a first-ever pro-vivisection protest in Oxford tomorrow. The demonstration in favour of a new animal-testing lab ...

"Warm Hearts, Wet Noses, and the Questions We Can't Ignore" panel to include author Melanie D.G. Kaplan, journalist and author of "Lab Dog" The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) will host a ...

The problem with vivisection, argues Derrick Jensen, is that we’re experimenting on the wrong sort of animals. To the dismay of many of my friends, I’m not unalterably opposed to vivisection. In fact, ...

Animal rights law professor and vegan activist Gary Francione has now weighed in at some length in his Blog about Peter Singer and his support for invasive brain research using monkeys. It is very ...

Japan has again been forced to confront its wartime conduct after a former doctor in the country's imperial navy admitted he had conducted experiments on Filipino prisoners during the second world war ...

Vivisection polarises British society like almost no other issue. On the one hand, medical researchers claim that animal experiments are vital for human progress and the elimination of diseases. On ...