I WAS pleased to read your report (LET, April 6) that Lancashire MPs are among 170 back-benchers who deplore the secrecy of the animal experiment industry and have urged the Government to set up a Royal Commission.
Most experiments have to be licensed under the Scientific Procedures Act 1986. In reality, this means very little as many of the procedures are regularly carried out without any anaesthetic.
This is morally wrong. Deliberate infliction of pain is loathsome and there remain but two reasons why the torture of animals in the name of science are allowed to go on - profit and needless abuse unworthy of civilised people.
SHEILA BRENNAN (Mrs), Bombay Street, Blackburn.
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