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Humane Research Australia works professionally and ethically to develop community-wide awareness of animal experimentation; pursues all reasonable channels to eliminate such experimentation and champions the benefits of realistic, scientifically effective alternatives to all forms of animal usage in research and teaching.
• Maximum Tolerated Dose (national tour)
• The Costs & Benefits of Animal Experiments (national tour - Andrew Knight)
• Animal Experiments – debunking the myths
• Cosmetics Testing
• Public opinion poll
Public Opinion pollNexus Research
Commissioned by Humane Research Australia, May 2013
64% of respondents do not believe that humans have the moral right to experiment on animals. This is up from 58% in 2008. (6% shift)
50% believe that animal experiments are necessary for the development of human medicines. This is down from 59% in 2008. (9% shift)
More than half the population (56%) don’t believe that it is always safe to transfer results from animal research to apply to humans. This compares with 53% in 2008. (3% shift)
63% say they would not donate to a health or medical research charity if they knew it were funding animal experiments. In comparison, 57% said no in 2008. (6% shift)
68% support the use of scientific alternatives to the killing of animals in research. Although there is very little awareness of the alternatives. 84% did know of any.
Case Studies
Shaking lambs to death to prove Shaking Baby Syndrome
Too much coffee makes mice fat!
Giving alcohol to pregnant
sheep
Rats prefer lamington cakes and meat pies to standard rat chow!
Marijuana…Ecstasy…
Leo Escapes from the Lab
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Our sincere thanks to Lush for their tremendous support in helping us to continue with this important work
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