... in 1959 to stop people animal testing and use these methods that were published in "The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique". The methods are: ° Replacement - use alternative methods, e.g. testing on cell cultures (in vitro) ° Reduction - use statistics to reduce the number of animals that must be used for each experiment ° Refinement - improve the experiment to reduce animal suffering Also different Governments in different countries put different amounts of money into alternative methods rather than animal testing. For example Germany give £4.2 million a year in grants while this country only gives £2 million so do we not care as much? Could the amount of money that we put in affect how many alternatives we have? The most known about alternatives are stem and embryo cell testing. However scientists can now work out how a certain group of people would react to things via computer. Also ...

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