Emma Hopley > Quotes

“By the 1970s, over 50 per cent of experiments were being conducted for commercial interests - not for medical research. This was highlighted by the publication of Richard Ryder’s book Victims of Science in 1975 which drew attention to the widespread trivial and commercial uses of laboratory animals. There was increasing frustration at the government's refusal to promote alternative methods of research.”
― Emma Hopley, Campaigning Against Cruelty: The Hundred Year History of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection

“One particularly successful method of capturing public attention was the renting of vacant shops in town centres for weeks at a time. A short-term lease would be agreed and then the shop would be stocked with leaflets and publications, with posters displayed in the windows to attract passers-by. The shops were staffed by a supporter who was on hand to answer questions. [...] Reports of one of the earliest shops in Wrexham described how anti-vivisection literature was handed out and how, day after day, a constant stream of visitors, both friends and foes, passed in and out of the shop asking questions, offering suggestions, raising objections or entering into debate.”
― Emma Hopley, Campaigning Against Cruelty: The Hundred Year History of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection

“During the 1980s it was estimated that an animal died in a British laboratory every six seconds.”
― Emma Hopley, Campaigning Against Cruelty: The Hundred Year History of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection