ATLA::Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volume 23, Number 5

The work of Pro Primates in laboratory.

ATLA 23, 632-633, September/October 1995

Ignaas Spruit

Pro Primates, Morsstraat 53, 2312 BL Leiden, Netherlands

SUMMARY

Entering laboratories and negotiating with scientists promotes the interests of animals more effectively than attacking science verbally, philosophically or by organizing demonstrations. This was proven by Pro Primates in a two-year battle against the former TNO Primate Centre.

Keywords: Animal research, ethics, non-human primates