How much vivisection is being done in South Africa today?
Colleen McDuling: Quite a fair amount. It’s very rife especially in academic institutions whereby papers are regularly produced by using especially rodents. Primates are also used. Not so many cats and dogs as what is used in the UK but it’s mainly all the common laboratory animals such as rats, mice, guinea pigs, hamsters and rabbits. Abolitionist: How do you see an end to vivisection? There’s no legislation anywhere in the world that grants so-called “laboratory” animals their rights or protection. In fact it’s probably done the opposite in serving to protect researchers and an apathetic public. Colleen McDuling: What we have to do is educate the general public as to what is really going on out there. Education is very important. I personally do believe in scare tactics whereby I would like to see the general public be exposed more to graphic details because only by that can they really get the inside story. That can only come about by more undercover operations and they are very, ve
