Campus without Cruelty Manchester Leaflet

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LICENCED TO KILL! Manchester University researchers are granted licences to maim and kill thousands of animals each year - including rats, mice, sheep, rabbits, pigs and hamsters. In 2016 alone, almost 175,000 animals were used.

OVER NEXT FIVE YEARS .. • • • • • •

Thousands of mice developing painful swelling and inflammation from arthritis, strokes and Motor Neuron Disease ‘Easy to handle’ rats crippled by Parkinson’s Disease, confined to cylinders and subjected to schizophrenia Hundreds of sheep given heart failure Cruel wound and blinding research on mice Genetically modified ‘GLOWING’ rats given kidney failure 8,000 mice and hundreds of rats given Inflammatory Bowel Disease and suffering weight loss and diarrhoea

LEGAL BUT NOT RIGHT!


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