TORTURING animals in laboratories is no way for a civilised community to pursue a quest for health. It debases not only those who practise it but also the society which tolerates it.

Each year, three million laboratory animals are socially isolated and live in confined cages.

Symptoms of psychiatric illness in animals are induced through electric shock, punishment and environmental deprivation and the surgical removal of parts of organs and limbs to alter behaviour.

Animals are addicted to drugs and alcohol, substances they would never use in nature. They

Artificially-induced disease in experimental animals is irrelevant to the study of human disease.f=Zurich Bd BTSHEILA BRENNAN (Mrs), Bombay Street, Blackburn.

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