ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS AT PORTON DOWN

Summary

That this House urges Her Majesty's Government to immediately ban unnecessary animal experiments at the Ministry of Defence's Chemical Warfare Establishment at Porton Down; is disgusted by the torture and slaughter of pigs subjected to mustard gas and Marmoset monkeys injected with sarin nerve gas; is appalled that these experiments will continue despite admissions by the research scientists involved that they have discovered little of value; congratulates the Sunday People for exposing this barbaric cruelty; and supports that newspaper's campaign to put a stop to it.

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1. 21 November 2000

   Early Day Motion

   That this House urges Her Majesty's Government to immediately ban unnecessary animal experiments at the Ministry of Defence's Chemical Warfare Establishment at Porton Down; is disgusted by the torture and slaughter of pigs subjected to mustard gas and Marmoset monkeys injected with sarin nerve gas; is appalled that these experiments will continue despite admissions by the research scientists involved that they have discovered little of value; congratulates the Sunday People for exposing this barbaric cruelty; and supports that newspaper's campaign to put a stop to it.

   Source: Early Day Motion

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• Mrs Helen Clark · Labour · Primary sponsor

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