A GROWING number of people are distressed by the appalling cruelties which go on in laboratories. Too many animals suffer while hidden from the public.

So many die in agony through the belief that animals are destined to be used for the good of the human race. The practice of vivisection on living animals stands condemned by its very inhumanity.

There is now a predominantly experimental medicine in the western world, instead of clinical medicine.

Corneal transplants were delayed 90 years because of the results of animal studies; the breakthrough coming from clinical work.

Deliberate cruelties in the name of scientific research need to be uncovered before the Government realises that, without political change, there is no rescue for laboratory animals.

SHEILA BRENNAN (Mrs), Bombay Street, Blackburn.

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