After over a year of hiatus in the experiments, the university announced that it will resume them in the new laboratory complex. She issued an order limiting opposition to the move
The University of Oxford has announced that it will resume animal testing, the BBC reported. These days, a new complex of laboratories is being built at the university. Now, they have decided to include in its scope also pens for laboratory animals.
The university stopped the experiments in July 2004, following a major campaign by animal rights organizations. Then it was also decided that no animal experiments would be carried out in the new laboratories, and their program was changed. Now the university has hired a new contractor, who should finish the construction of the laboratories according to their new plan in a short time.
The university's registrar, David Holmes, said that "the new laboratories will provide students with the best facilities, so that they can help global research. Everything will be done while maintaining the university's commitment to animal welfare." He visited to emphasize that the university will not expand the research on animals beyond what was customary.
To prevent the renewal of the campaign against the experiments, the university managed to issue a legal order limiting the demonstrations to one day of the week, and to a maximum of 50 participants. In response to this, Adolfo Sansolini, the director of the British Association for the Abolition of Animal Experiments, said: "We are disappointed to see that the university is renewing the construction of the laboratories for animal experiments, while silencing the opposition."
