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Books

Animal Wrongs?

Nicholas Everitt reviews a new book on Animal Experimentation edited by Robert Baird and Stuart Rosenbaum.

Each year in British laboratories, millions of animals are killed. World-wide, the figure runs to tens of millions. Before they are killed, many of these animals are subjected to violent and painful treatment. Rabbits, for example, have liquids dripped into their eyes in toxicity tests. Since rabbit eyes are unable to water in the way that human eyes do, the rabbits have no natural mechanism for flushing out noxious substances from their eyes, and hence seek to scratch with their paws.

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