Animal Experiments And Donor Cards

EDM number 342 in 1997-98, proposed by Norman Baker on 27/10/1997.

That this House notes with dismay that 400,000 animals are killed every year just to provide body parts for medical research when many scientists agree that test-tube studies using donated human tissue give more reliable results, but that lack of availability prevents its widespread use; urges that donated human tissue be used wherever possible to save animals and achieve more accurate results; and calls upon the Government to establish and co-ordinate a national network of human tissue banks to overcome the shortage of suitable human tissue and to introduce a new donor card that gives the public the option of donating organs for transplantation and/or tissue for research.

This motion has been signed by a total of 83 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.