Ban Animal Testing In Trinity
Ban Animal Testing In Trinity
The Issue
We are a group of 5 business students in Trinity College Dublin. Our 'Managing Climate Change’ module assigned us a project called 'Campus Of The Future' in which we propose a greener version of Trinity. We are passionate about the lives and well-being of animals and that is why we would like to see Trinity College move away from this outdated and cruel process.
In 2016 alone, The Irish Mirror were bold enough to report that Trinity purchased 25,000 live animals to test on, including mice, rats, fish, rabbits and pigs. The university spent €310,000 on this purchase and a further €10,000 on the disposable of their bodies. This figure does not include the cost of the experiments or the maintenance of live animals so we are sure it can easily reach over half a million. See the article below for more information:
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/trinity-college-dublin-slammed-using-11024371
Trinity is not the only university in Ireland or across the world that continues to test on animals, but as Ireland's leading university and listed in the top 100 global universities, Trinity has a duty to pave the way for other colleges that it is possible to abandon such inhumane methods.
There are alternatives to animal testing which include sophisticated tests using human cells and tissues (also known as in vitro methods), advanced computer-modelling techniques (often referred to as in silico models), and studies with human volunteers.
Aside from this, carrying out experiments on animals can be quite damaging to the environment, further contributing to climate change. The chemicals used can easily become pollutants through the dead bodies that are either buried so the chemicals enter the soil and our ecosystems or through incineration in which the chemicals can pollute the air.
Please consider your pets and how you would feel if they were imprisoned in a cage their entire life, injected with harsh chemicals, cut open without appropriate pain relief and potentially far worse, psychologically tortured.
This is not the first time Trinity has been asked to stop testing on animals, but let us at least make a worthy attempt to make it the last!
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The Issue
We are a group of 5 business students in Trinity College Dublin. Our 'Managing Climate Change’ module assigned us a project called 'Campus Of The Future' in which we propose a greener version of Trinity. We are passionate about the lives and well-being of animals and that is why we would like to see Trinity College move away from this outdated and cruel process.
In 2016 alone, The Irish Mirror were bold enough to report that Trinity purchased 25,000 live animals to test on, including mice, rats, fish, rabbits and pigs. The university spent €310,000 on this purchase and a further €10,000 on the disposable of their bodies. This figure does not include the cost of the experiments or the maintenance of live animals so we are sure it can easily reach over half a million. See the article below for more information:
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/trinity-college-dublin-slammed-using-11024371
Trinity is not the only university in Ireland or across the world that continues to test on animals, but as Ireland's leading university and listed in the top 100 global universities, Trinity has a duty to pave the way for other colleges that it is possible to abandon such inhumane methods.
There are alternatives to animal testing which include sophisticated tests using human cells and tissues (also known as in vitro methods), advanced computer-modelling techniques (often referred to as in silico models), and studies with human volunteers.
Aside from this, carrying out experiments on animals can be quite damaging to the environment, further contributing to climate change. The chemicals used can easily become pollutants through the dead bodies that are either buried so the chemicals enter the soil and our ecosystems or through incineration in which the chemicals can pollute the air.
Please consider your pets and how you would feel if they were imprisoned in a cage their entire life, injected with harsh chemicals, cut open without appropriate pain relief and potentially far worse, psychologically tortured.
This is not the first time Trinity has been asked to stop testing on animals, but let us at least make a worthy attempt to make it the last!
735
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Petition created on 18 November 2023