http://leicesterexchanges.com/2012/10/04/research-using-animals/ From one of the UK’s leading universities comes a new way to make real progress on some key issues that shape our society. Join some of Britain’s leading academics and highest-profile opinion formers as we seek answers that could change the way we live for the better. So, the floor is yours; will you make the most of it? Mon, 13 May 2013 09:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://leicesterexchanges.com/2012/10/04/research-using-animals/#comment-18565 Mike Barer Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:13:53 +0000 http://leicesterexchanges.com/?p=2602#comment-18565 These are fair comments for the most part. Even worse, the potential efficacy of the badger cull is in serious doubt. BCG was and is tested in animals. It is being trialed in badgers and no one knows how effective it will be but it is very expensive as the animals have to be caughr, anaesthetised then inoculated. The vaccine can't be used in cattle because they would become skin test positive and would have to be slaughtered. The final cut isthat BCG is not very effective in humans anyway These are fair comments for the most part. Even worse, the potential efficacy of the badger cull is in serious doubt.
BCG was and is tested in animals. It is being trialed in badgers and no one knows how effective it will be but it is very expensive as the animals have to be caughr, anaesthetised then inoculated. The vaccine can’t be used in cattle because they would become skin test positive and would have to be slaughtered.
The final cut isthat BCG is not very effective in humans anyway

]]> http://leicesterexchanges.com/2012/10/04/research-using-animals/#comment-18557 Chris Williams Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:38:59 +0000 http://leicesterexchanges.com/?p=2602#comment-18557 You are right to say none of us are consistent as reflected by our government who are about to allow farmers kill badgers because they carry a disease, for which there is a vaccine, which can be transmitted to cows, for which there is a vaccine, that produce milk that is Pasteurised to prevent the disease being spread to humans. We claim to care about the badgers and the cows but our only response to saving them from a very unpleasant death is not to vaccinate them but to kill them. We save ourselves so easily but we sacrifice them so carelessly and unnecessarily. To make matters worse, the vaccine that would save them was almost certainly tested on animals prior being used by humans exclusively. You are right to say none of us are consistent as reflected by our government who are about to allow farmers kill badgers because they carry a disease, for which there is a vaccine, which can be transmitted to cows, for which there is a vaccine, that produce milk that is Pasteurised to prevent the disease being spread to humans. We claim to care about the badgers and the cows but our only response to saving them from a very unpleasant death is not to vaccinate them but to kill them. We save ourselves so easily but we sacrifice them so carelessly and unnecessarily. To make matters worse, the vaccine that would save them was almost certainly tested on animals prior being used by humans exclusively.

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