07/12/2022
This is shocking statistics for man's best friend! This needs to end,it doesn't benefit us. We are not the same as dogs!
90,000 dogs were used in experiments across the UK, EU and the USA in 2013. Despite Brussels and California banning testing on dogs, much more needs to be done to make an impact on this number.
A published study states that dogs are highly inconsistent predictors of toxic responses in humans, and that any significant benefit would have been by chance. Results can be extremely variable with no obvious pattern therefore cannot be reliable or helpful.
A comprehensive suite of more reliable, alternative methods are now available so the scientific argument needs to be fought much much harder - it is there!
Source: 'An Analysis of the Use of Dogs in Predicting Human Toxicology and Drug Safety' by Jarrod Bailey, Michelle Thew and Michael Balls (message for full paper)
