APPLYING RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS TO HUMAN PATIENTS

Early day motion 373, tabled 7 September 2015 by Kelvin Hopkins (Labour). Signed by 61 members.

That this House notes the science-based campaign, For Life On Earth, which is critical of avoidable experiments on animals; further notes the new initiative, Patients Campaigning For Cures, which opposes animal models on medical grounds; is alarmed that scientific studies reveal that the widespread claimed ability of animals to predict human responses to drugs and disease is demonstrably false; acknowledges that over 90 per cent of drugs which test well in animals harm or otherwise fail humans, and that ignoring this has delayed cures including penicillin; notes that using animals to model humans contradicts currently accepted science, including evolutionary biology and genetics, which supports personalised medical care; further acknowledges the proclamation of the Concordat on Openness on Animal Research to develop communications with the media and public; and calls for thorough, properly moderated public scientific debate on the misleading and costly practice of trying to apply results from animal experiments to human patients.

Signatures by party: Labour 32, Scottish National Party 15, Conservative 4, Labour/Co-operative 3, DUP 2, Liberal Democrat 2, Green 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1, UUP 1.