Motion 71M(PO)

Societies Standing Committee

"This Association calls for the complete cessation of research using animals as models for human conditions at the OU and for its replacement with more effective methods such as epidemiological and clinical studies, scanning technology, in vitro studies and computer modelling."

We brought this motion to conference becasue we believe that it is time for all researchers to move away from harmful, cruel, and unproductive research into human ailments by monkeying around with animals, and to embrace alternative humane and relevant methods and the benefits that new technology can bring. It's absurd that in the 21st Century we should be wasting research years and money trying to inflict human diseases and ailments on animals; and then even more years and more money trying to cure them; and then trying to extrapolate the results into what will happen in humans. And it's obscene that we should be inflicting fear, pain and distress on sentient beings because we haven't been taught any better.

This University must move with the times and get out of its deeply entrenched harmful animal use - harmful to the animals, and harmful to humans.

Sadly this motion was not debated because Conference ran out of time.