Whether you're a vegetarian/vegan or not, I must say most people do have a fondness for animals. Which unfortunately doesn't seem to extent to a great majority of places that still do animal testings. On animals you would have in your homes, not just the proverbial "lab rats". Dogs, cats, horses... no animal is too cute or cudly for those who do these horrific deeds.

I just saw a program on the rescue of a chimp, he had been in captivity for over 20 years. He was chained and abused, a circus chimp I think he was. He was castrated and had very few teeth left, they were pulled out when they captured him. The program led me to look up the site of the people who saw to his rescue. I have seen images like these before, and they have the same effect time and again. But one can forget that this occurs on a daily basis. It's good to be reminded again.


The NAVS was the first organisation to ever undertake an undercover investigation of an animal laboratory - as long as 1902. In 1984, we revived the tactic with an investigation of Toxicol Laboratories, Herefordshire, UK, and since then the investigative work of the NAVS and our sister group, the Animal Defenders, has become the standard by which undercover investigations are judged. Many organisations have followed this important lead, indeed, our Special Investigations Department has been called on to brief and instruct campaigners throughout the world.

Evidence collected by the NAVS inside British Laboratories, for example, provides the widest and most accurate picture available of life and death for lab animals.

We were the first organisation to expose contract testing on animals; to film primates in brain research; to expose the overbreeding of animals; and the only organisation whose investigative work has led to a laboratory licence to experiment being revoked.

Our video, 'Unlock the Labs', contains footage from these investigations. To order a copy, please click here. Everything featured in this video and outlined here was licensed and inspected by the Home Office and yet even your Member of Parliament would not have known about it, but for the NAVS.

Establishments investigated include:
SmithKline Beecham, Essex; St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London; St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London; Toxicol (now Quintiles) Laboratories, Herefordshire; Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, London; The Institute of Neurology, London, Oxford University; and lab breeders Harlan and Hylyne (the latter is now closed).

Our investigations show day to day life in UK laboratories:
the casual killing of unwanted animals - our investigations produced the first hard evidence of massive killing of unwanted animals;
the miserable confinement and poor husbandry;
labs routinely ignoring Government codes of practice;
the brutal and unnecessary experiments.



Overbreeding
Laboratory Animal Housing
Wild-Caught Animals
'Rigorous' Controls?
Futile attempts to replicate human conditions in animals
Animals Used When A Non-Animal Method Is Available
Experiments When The Outcome Is Known
Unreliable, Unethical, Unnecessary
The NAVS Takes You Inside The UK's Secret Laboratories
The NAVS Special Investigations Department penetrates the secret world of animal research, with elaborate and extensive undercover investigations. Our photographs and video have shown people what really goes on behind the laboratory doors

Institute of Neurology, London (Access Denied Report)

Macaque monkeys in small barren cages; a monkey with metal bolts and plates permanently implanted in her head; cats used in migraine experiments; rats used in drug experiments

Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, London (Access Denied Report)

As a result of the NAVS investigation, the licence for this laboratory was suspended, and all staff re-trained in humane killing procedures. We had uncovered sloppy killing procedures and huge quantities of animals slaughtered simply because they were surplus to requirements. the laboratory's own killing statistics, combined with those we had exposed in other laboratories revealed for the first time, hard evidence of massive overbreeding of laboratory animals. This lab conducted experiments on cats, dogs, guinea pigs, mice, sheep and pigs, including deliberately inducing heart failure in dogs

John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University

Laboratory technicians laughing as they smash live mice against bench tops to kill them; rabbit's legs fractured and stretched; heart experiments on sheep

St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, London (Labs Unlocked Report)

Tamarin monkeys injected with excrement in hepatitis experiments and kept in cages breaking government guidelines. Rats with electrodes permanently bolted into their heads

Toxicol Laboratories, Ledbury, Herefordshire (Labs Unlocked Report)

Beagle puppies being used in tests for commercial companies, including being fed a weedkiller which had already been tested, and had been on the market for years

St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London (Vivisection in Britain Report)

Shocking arthritis and multiple sclerosis experiments on animals, funded by top charities

SmithKline Beecham, Stock, Essex (Vivisection in Britain Report)

Experiments on rats and beagle dogs

Interfauna, Cambridgeshire, lab animal supplier

In an elaborate sting, six beagle puppies were saved by the NAVS from being sold for experiments by this international lab dealer; film was taken of the breeding areas


(live links on the site. You can see the visuals, I imagine they are beyond shocking. http://www.navs.org.uk/vivisection/inside/ )