{"id":17213,"date":"2016-11-18T15:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=17213"},"modified":"2016-11-18T15:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:25:36","slug":"save-animals-inside-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/save-animals-inside-universities","title":{"rendered":"Save animals inside universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Cardiff Animal rights, a volunteer organization set up in 2011, has run the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajpReact?lang=zh-cn\">animal justice project<\/a>\u2019s campus without cruelty for two months since 23rd September, 2016, aiming to reduce animal testing in universities.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cardiffanimalrights\/\">Cardiff Animal Rights<\/a> organized demonstration protesting animal testing outside Cardiff University Student Union on 11 November.<br \/>\nAccording to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/537708\/scientific-procedures-living-animals-2015.pdf\">statistics<\/a> released by The Home Office via Freedom of\u00a0 Information, Cardiff University hit 8th in the UK in terms of animals used. Over 52500 animals were experimented on in Cardiff University in 2015 alone, 50 times of that in any other university in Wales.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17232\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17232 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/IMG_1687-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_1687\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17232 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/IMG_1687-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_1687\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/noscript> Lab coats with blood of testing animals<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFaye Spens, 39, one of the main organizers of this campaign, said: \u201cIt is a long campaign and the problem is very large. And it will take a very long time and lots of focuses over different kinds of approaches to raise people\u2019s awareness.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cActually, lots of people are surprised at this information and are interested in finding out what they can do to help us,\u201d she added.<br \/>\n\u201cIt definitely has a positive impact on mainstream media as well,\u201d said Rachel Ward, 30, a spokesperson of CAR, \u201cPeople are absolutely outreached because of local coverage of Campus Without Cruelty. Most people don\u2019t know this kind of thing is going on in universities. They don\u2019t want people to know. Now information is out, people can make decision based on what they have.\u201d<br \/>\nAs a volunteer organization, CAR has 45 members right now and is striving for attracting new members and expanding its impact on the public.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17231\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17231 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/IMG_1688-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_1688\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17231 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/IMG_1688-625x469.jpg\" alt=\"img_1688\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/noscript> Volunteers are distributing leaflets.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nRachel believes that education is the key when asked about their response to criticism of blocking medical advance. She mentioned: \u201cOur focus is not to stop curing diseases, to stop that kind of progress. Some alternatives available can be used to reduce and even replace animal testing for some really fantastic research organizations I know don\u2019t use animal testing at all. That\u2019s what we want to achieve in this campaign.\u201d<br \/>\nIn response to the campaign, a Cardiff University spokesperson claimed: \u201cAll animal-related research work at Cardiff University is designed and carried out in accordance with the principles of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Three_Rs_(animals)\">3Rs<\/a>.\u201d<br \/>\nThough four Welsh universities\u2014 Cardiff University, Swansea University, Aberystwyth University and Bangor University\u2014 have committed to the 3Rs of the use of animals testing, the number of animals used in procedures completed in 2015 was 4.07 million, representing an increase of 1% compared with 2013.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ll never stop,\u2019\u2019 said Rachel Ward at the end of today\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff Animal Rights is committed to appealing to alternatives to the use of testing animals in Cardiff University so as to reduce number of animals experimented in lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":17342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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