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World Day for Laboratory Animals 2024 - April 24
April 24 , 2024
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- Founded in 1875, the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) was the world’s first organisation campaigning against animal experiments.
- It established the Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research (LDF) in 1973.
- This fund aims to support and fund advanced non-animal methods of scientific and medical research.
- In 1979, NAVS established World Day for Laboratory Animals (also referred to as Lab Animal Day).
- This day aims to draw attention to the suffering and killing of animals that take place in laboratories all around the world.
- Animal experimentation has been employed in a variety of ways throughout the years in the beauty, medical, aviation, and even military industries.
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