The Animals Act of 1986, for example, insists that no animal experiments be conducted if there is a realistic alternative. Testing on animals now requires three Home Office licences - for the ...

in which extensive but ill-informed animal testing led to researchers concluding the drug was safe – only for it to cause severe birth defects in tens of thousands of children across the world.

Mice, fish, cats, dogs, horses, rabbits, monkeys - they're all used in animal testing across the world. Until recently, the US Department of Agriculture used cats to research toxoplasmosis - a ...