Savita Nutan

Animal testing is being locked into the future, not phased out As the House of Lords prepares to debate amendments to the Public Order Act 2023 on Wednesday 4 February, Medicine Without Cruelty warns that the proposed designation of animal testing and breeding facilities as Key National Infrastructure fundamentally contradicts claims that animal testing is […]

MWC’s Position on the UK’s Replacement Strategy: Not Enough. Not Even Close   In July 2024, the UK labour party came into power and, with it, a long-awaited pledge for meaningful change for animals in laboratories. The renewal of hope and belief finally arrived, not through rhetoric, but through commitments that demanded action. Buried within the

Today’s announcement by the NIH marks a long-overdue shift toward modern science. For decades, animal testing has failed to protect human health, despite being propped up by institutional inertia and outdated regulation. The NIH finally acknowledging the limitations of animal testing — and investing in human-based, non-animal science — is both welcome and necessary. But

13 October 2024 Animal testing is an outdated, ineffective and barbaric practice that has never served human health. Despite decades of reliance on animals to test drugs, study diseases, and develop treatments, it is painfully evident that animals are inadequate in predicting human responses. What’s worse, millions of animals are subjected to immense suffering in

5 August 2024 Why Toxicity Testing on Macaques Must End: Superior Alternatives for Safer Drug Testing Learn why toxicology testing on macaques is outdated, inhumane, and unreliable. Discover superior animal-free alternatives for drug safety testing. This article was originally published in French in Week-End weekly newspaper in Mauritius and https://www.lemauricien.com/week-end/monkey-business-savita-nutan-le-macaque-a-longue-queue-est-la-principale-espece-utilisee-pour-les-tests-de-toxicite/644728/ The Ineffectiveness of Animal Testing in

22 February 2024 On Monday 19th Feb, I attended Parliament to hear our MPs debate the topic of animal testing. This came about through two petitions (signed by over 100,000 people in the UK) – the first petition being to end the use of animals for toxicity tests and the second petition to ban the

She looked at me gravely and said “I am deeply offended by this conference”. I let out a sigh of relief. Someone finally understood how I felt in this pantomime. The woman in question was in fact Dr Lisa Jones-Engel, a senior science advisor at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA.org). Believe me, I asked