A 'Cruelty-Free Science' stall was set up in Worcester.
On Saturday (October 5), from 11am to 2pm, a group of Worcester residents set up an animal cruelty-free stall on the High Street to educate the public about the "brutality and uselessness" of vivisection.
The stall was set up by members of the Alliance for Cruelty-Free Science.
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The group handed out pamphlets and gathered signatures for a petition against animal testing.
The campaign was sparked by figures from the Home Office revealing that more than three million live animals were used for experiments in the UK in 2021 alone.
This number represented a six per cent increase from the previous year.
A 2024 review published in the British Medical Journal showed that more than 90 per cent of animal experiments do not lead to treatments for humans.
The group is now lobbying the government to ban all animal experiments and products derived from them.
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