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Protesters scenting victory as beagle farm faces refusal
Anti-vivisectionists may have won the battle over building bigger facilities for breeding beagles in East Yorkshire.
Planners at East Riding Council are recommending refusal of controversial plans for the Marshall Farms facility at Grimston which have received thousands of objections.
The company, which took over the site from B&K Universal two years ago wants to modernise facilities used previously for breeding beagles, demolishing old buildings and putting up four new ones on an area double the size of the previous site.
The council is recommending refusal for access reasons – saying the road to the site would need to be widened for construction traffic.
They say: “There is no certainty such improvements could be implemented due to the narrowness of the public highway and this may involve third party land.”
The scheme has provoked 57 letters of objection and 3650 “representations” from others including the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, the National Anti Vivisection Society and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Those against say testing animals say it is unacceptable and unnecessary, while those who are pro-testing, say new drugs must be tested on animals before being used on humans.
Barbara Davies, from Understanding Animal Research, said: “Our understanding is that the Marshall planning application will provide improved facilities for the animals, so it is difficult to see why so-called animal-welfare campaigners would oppose it.
“All mainstream medical and scientific organisations around the world agree that animals are essential in scientific research, medicines development and safety testing.”
She said dogs were important in the study of heart disease and in the safety testing of medicines, and in the past had been key to developing insulin for people with diabetes, the heart-lung machine, and anti-rejection medicines.
However, BUAV chief executive Michelle Thew said they were delighted by the recommendation.
“There is strong public concern regarding the breeding and use of dogs in research. Animal testing is out-dated, ethically unacceptable and scientifically questionable.
“We appeal to the planning committee to vote to refuse this application,” she added.
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Steve Broom
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 11:07 AMSteve Broom Tuesday June 14th at 10.45 a.m. So agree with Catherine on this archaic cruel practise which has killed more people then all the wars in the last 500 years (fact courtesy of Dr. Vernon Coleman). 197,000 killed in the E.U. last year from drugs that were unsafe due to species differences. Everyone has read in various main stream media about the Vioxx disater which allegedly killed 160,000, and I was prescribed but didn't take. There is so much info on the net which is so easy to substantiate now, and anyone with intelligence knows that monkeys can't get AIDS but if they arern't suffocated on route here are used as a "cure." Despite the fact that Aids could have been started in a animal torture chamber in California. Space doesn't allow me (I'd need several pages in the Yorkshire Post to get my point across) but its far more then a few hundred million animals being used in stupid tests every year . Its a matter of free speech, morality, human health threatened by horrendous cruelty and so much more. Animal testing is finished.
Catherine Heckford-Dickinson
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 06:54 PMI sincerely hope this article reflects what will happen! There is no place in genuine science for so called animal ‘research’ due to differences in species. 92 % of animal tested drugs are unsafe or ineffective in people and a TNS Healthcare survey in 2004 suggested that 83% of GPs would support a scientific evaluation, of the efficacy of animal testing, in comparison with a battery of human species specific methods. These methods would include mircrodosing, DNA fluidics chips, computer modelling techniques, and the use of human tissues and human cells. There is indeed an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for such an evaluation (EDM 475), a previous tabling of which was supported by 250MPs. For the record, the claims of Barbara Davies of Understanding Animal Research are simply incorrect. Research on dogs, cats and pigs for diabetes, lead researchers to wrongly conclude that diabetes was a liver disease, throwing research of track for decades! Also the heart-lung machine had to be redesigned for the human species after KILLING the first human patients! For a genuinely scientific approach to medical science visit the Safer Medicines Campaign http:www.safermedicines.orgfaqsrefs.shtml They are an independent group of medical professionals who have no vested interest in profits, legal alibis (for when medicine goes wrong) or so called ‘animal rights’.
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