Please Support Pro-Test Petition

You are urged to add your voice to those of other scientists showing their support for humane animal research. Research advocates at Americans for Medical Progress, UCLA Pro-Test, and Speaking of Research have set up an online petition supporting humane animal research. Please consider adding your name by going to http://www.raisingvoices.net/.

The Pro-Test Petition was inspired by a 2006 petition in the U.K. that gathered over 20,000 signatures, including that of then Prime Minister Tony Blair. That petition helped to turn the tide of public opinion in the U.K. in favor animal research. As a result, in 2008, supporters of research were able to celebrate the completion of a laboratory in Oxford whose construction had been halted for more than a year due to harassment and intimidation by animal rights extremists.

With violence against researchers escalating in the U.S. now is the time for members of the research community to publicly reaffirm the need of humane animal research. AALAS has long been proud of the role it has played in promoting humane animal research and will continue to support such research in the future.