animal experimentation
What do experts say about primate experiments?
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Experts Opposing Primate Research

Learn what highly-esteemed global experts in the fields of neuroscience, animal welfare, conservation, primatology and pharmacology have to say about primate experiments. These experts not only oppose them on ethical and moral grounds, but further explain how the majority of experiments on primates contribute very little towards advancing health outcomes

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wallabies used in research
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Wallabies used in brain and vision experiments

According to a 2022 publication 6 tammar wallabies, bred specifically for research were used in vision experiments. Help us urge the Australian Research Council to stop funding cruel and scientifically obsolete brain and vision experiments on wallabies. Tammar wallabies, bred specifically for research, have been subjected to invasive procedures like craniotomies

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Rodents

Intermittent Fasting in Mice

Research paper Intermittent fasting increases energy expenditure and promotes adipose tissue browning in miceNutrition 2019 Oct; 66:38-43. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2019.03.015. 2019https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31207437/Bo Liu , Amanda J Page , Amy T Hutchison , Gary A Wittert , Leonie K Heilbronn Associated institutions Centre for Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Disease, Adelaide Medical School, University of

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Can’t We Just Use Prisoners?

In AFSA’s communications about the wrongs of animal research, we sometimes come up against the suggestion that in place of animals, society should use criminals, prisoners, paedophiles, immigrants…the list goes on. Whilst we do not have the right to inflict suffering on animals in the name of research, we equally

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