Links

Anti-vivisection & animal rights

• Stop the Leicester Animal Lab

  http://www.noleicesterlab.co.uk

  A new campaign launched to oppose and stop the construction of a new £15million animal testing laboratory at Leicester University on Lancaster Road, Leicester.

• UK Animal Rights Web Directory

  www.ukanimalrights.net

  A comprehensive online resource  for all animal rights isses in the UK

• Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine

  http://www.dlrm.org/

  DLRM's objective is the immediate and unconditional abolition of all animal experiments, on medical and scientific grounds

• Safer Medicines

  http://www.curedisease.net/

Safer Medicines is an independent, not-for-profit organisation of scientists and medical professionals. Its goal is to protect human health by promoting human-specific medical research. There is overwhelming evidence that animal experiments provide results that, when applied to humans, can prove misleading or fatal. These tests exhaust precious research funding, waste valuable time, produce ineffective solutions, and delay progress toward human cures.

• Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)

  http://www.shac.net/

  A group campaigning to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences, the contract testing laboratory

• Xeno Diaries

  http://www.xenodiaries.org/

  An exposé of over a thousand pages of leaked documents about bizarre "xenotranspantation" experiments, where organs were transplanted from piglets into baboons and monkeys.

• Uncaged

  http://www.uncaged.co.uk

  Campaigns against vivisection, including Procter & Gamble, Iams, xenotransplantation.

• Americans for Medical Advancement (AFMA)

  http://www.curedisease.com/ 

 

Campaigns against other primate labs

• The Struggle to Shut Down the Mazor Primate Breeding Farm

  http://www.anonymous.org.il/e-mazor.htm

  Campaign to close down a primate breeding centre in Israel that sends hundreds of monkeys of for experiments to various countries including the UK.

• Undercover exposé at Covance

  http://www.covancecruelty.com/

  An undercover investigator working with PETA in the US has infiltrated animal-testing company Covance and brought out horrific film of monkeys and other animals being abused.

Against primate abuse in general

• Gateway to Hell Campaign

  http://www.gatewaytohell.net

  The Gateway to Hell Campaign was started in the UK in early 2005 with the aim of highlighting and stopping the import of captive-bred and wild animals for the vivisection industry.

• The Aesop Project

  http://www.aesop-project.org/

  AESOP-Project [Allied Effort to Save Other Primates] is an international coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting monkeys and apes.

• The Great Ape Project

  http://www.greatapeproject.org

  An international group founded to work for the removal of the non-human great apes from the category of property, and for their immediate inclusion within the category of persons.

• Diary of Michelle Rokke

  http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/~antiviv/

  Michelle Rokke spent several months working undercover at Huntingdon Life Science's US laboratory. Read about the horrendous abuse of animals she discovered whilst working there.

• Primate Freedom

  http://www.primatefreedom.com/

  The Primate Freedom Project, established in 1999, is dedicated to ending the use of nonhuman primates in cruel and harmful experimentation and other forms of exploitation.

• Utah Primate Freedom Project

  http://www.utahprimatefreedom.com/

  The Utah Primate Freedom Project is a student group at the University of Utah that was established in October, 2003. They are a collection of concerned University students, alumni, and laypersons who offer education and advocacy on behalf of primates held in laboratories. Locally, the Utah Primate Freedom Project has one simple and direct purpose: to seek an end to all primate experimentation at the University of Utah campus.

• Great Ape Standing and Personhood

  http://www.personhood.org/

  Nonhuman apes meet the generally accepted criteria for personhood. Their enslavement is capricious and arbitrary under an enlightened and coherent reading of national and international law. GRASP's mission is to expand the modern legal understanding of fundamental rights to life, physical integrity, land and freedom, so that the concept of fundamental liberty rights will transcend human-racism.

Other Animal Rights

• Vegan Society

  http://www.vegansociety.com

  Information about adopting a lifestyle free from animal abuse. 

• Close Noah's Ark Zoo

  http://www.closenaz.wordpress.com/

  A campaign to close a farm zoo near Bristol where animal abuse was exposed in an undercover investigation.  

• HuntWatch

  http://www.huntwatch.info/

  Monitoring hunts to make sure they aren't breaking the law following the hunting ban of Feb 2005.

• Animal Rights BitTorrents

  http://torrents.rbgi.net/

  Share and download animal rights movies using BitTorrent.