Who wants a Royal Commission on vivisection?
Royal Commission on Vivisection The call for a Royal Commission on vivisection has grown since an undertaking was given in the Labour Party’s ‘New Life for Animals’ leaflet, prior to the 1997 election. The NAVS does not favour a Royal Commission (RC). We do not believe it to be an effective way forward, for two principle reasons:- Firstly, whilst such a body sat, the government would have the perfect excuse to shelve the issue, and it could jeopardise the campaign to have animal experiments drawn under the Freedom of Information Act. Secondly, the criticisms made of the unfair way in which the last RC (in 1906) was stacked against the opponents of animal experiments still stand. There is no reason to believe that any new RC would be fairly constituted, whatever efforts or promises the Government might make. We remain firmly of the belief that inclusion of animal experiments under the Freedom of Information Act is the way forward. Freedom of Information would allow us to challenge propo
