Animals in Research

Organizations offering education and alternatives to animal use in research and laboratories:

 

Canadian Centre for Alternatives to Animal Methods Canadian Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods https://www.uwindsor.ca/ccaam/ University of Windsor, ON Dr. Charu Chandrasekera, Executive Director
Center for Contemporary Sciences contemporarysciences.org/ Saving and improving lives by catalyzing the world’s transition to human-specific medical research.”
Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine www.pcrm.org The Physicians Committee is dedicated to saving and improving human and animal lives through plant-based diets and ethical and effective scientific research.”
Progressive Non-animal Research Society progressiveresearchsociety.com Information on modern and effective alternatives to animal research”
Animal Alliance of Canada (Parent of the political party, Animal Protection Party of Canada) animalalliance.ca Animal Research in Canada
The Animal Defense & Anti-Vivisection Society of British Columbia (ADAV) adavsociety.org Established by a veterinary surgeon in 1927, with the goal of abolishing vivisection on moral, ethical and scientific grounds Articles and Reports on innovations in research and non-animal testing

Additional Resources:

• Laura Janara, “Human-Animal Governance and University Practice in Canada: A Problematizing Redescription,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 48:3, September 2015 (647-673). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423915000384.
• The Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC)
• Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change. Edited by Kathrin Hermann and Kimberley Jayne. Brill, 2019. 714 pp.