World Day For Laboratory Animals is an international day, set aside by the United Nations in 1979, aimed at celebrating the suffering of laboratory animals.
Founded by ADI’s UK campaign partner, the National Anti-Violation Society, World Day for Laboratory Animals is now marked annually on April twenty-four on every continent.
In the Guide, laboratory animals, generally defined as any vertebrate animal produced for or used in research, testing, or teaching, are those animals used in several different settings, including: Medicine, developing and testing medicines and vaccines for humans or animals, and for research to study how animal and human bodies function.
Typically, animal studies are essential for research that seeks to understand complex questions of disease progression, genetics, lifetime risk or other biological mechanisms of a whole living system that would be unethical, morally unacceptable or technically unfeasible or too difficult to perform in human subjects.
Laboratory veterinary medicine or laboratory animal medicine is a specialty in the field of veterinary medicine that focuses on improving the welfare of research animals by providing quality animal care.
According to a promotional brochure, animal research has improved and saved the lives of countless companion animals, including vaccines to prevent distemper, rabies, infectious hepatitis, tetanus, parvovirus, and feline leukemia; technologies such as CT, MRI, and ultrasonography.
Correspondent Ebele Ezeh reports that while there are few specific studies on the environmental consequences of animal use in research, evidence demonstrates that their use and disposal, and the associated use of chemicals and supplies, contribute to pollution as well as adverse impacts on biodiversity and public health.
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