Author archive for: Darragh McDonagh
Irish celebs seeking to end testing on animals
The petition aims to close loopholes in EU laws which continue to permit the testing of cosmetics on animals and their use in a range...
‘BATCH TEST’ | Hundreds of thousands of mice killed in botox experiments in Ireland claims campaign group
Anti-wrinkle injections were allegedly used on the mice in what one group describes as a ‘gratuitous abuse of animals in laboratories’
‘More than 500,000 mice recently killed in Botox experiments in Ireland’, campaign group claims
A number of Irish-based pharmaceutical companies use mice to batch-test Botox, which is a neurotoxin used in anti-wrinkle injections
Animals used 240k times for research last year
Live animals including dogs, horses, and rabbits, were used in research and testing procedures 242,302 times last year — up 7% since 2016. The number...
Trinity College Dublin slammed for using 100,000 live animals for research
Rats, mice, pigs and rabbits have been used in biomedical research at Trinity since 2012
‘It’s behaviour from the Dark Ages’ – Outrage as Trinity experiments on 110,000 animals
In 2016 Trinity spent more than €310k buying nearly 25,000 animals and €10k to dispose of them Nearly 110,000 animals have been used in medical...