Posts filed under ‘Animal Rights’
Spider Webs – Use In Chemical Testing (1995)
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Main Search Term and Keywords: Animal Testing, Animal Rights
Date of Broadcast: 27th April 1995
Clip Duration: 1 min 4 seconds
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An interesting video on the affects of drugs on spiders
Description: The spiders ability to spin a web has intrigued scientists for centuries but NASA has been carrying out experiments to see how that ability is effected by being given substances like marijuana & caffeine.
- Spiders under the influence of different drugs affected the spinning of their webs
- Different types of web – depicts a normal web with those woven whilst spider are under the influence of drugs
- Marijuana – started normal, not finished
- Benzedrene – frenzied web spinning
- Caffeine – hardly string any web at all
- Scientist provide alternative to traditional way chemicals are tested on animals
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Cosmetic Testing On Animals (1990)
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Main Search Term and Keywords: Animal Rights, Animal Testing
Date of Broadcast: 25th February 1990
Clip Duration: 1 min 7 seconds
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Description: Cosmetics companies who refuse to test their products on animals, have launched a campaign against Common Market plans to force them to do so. The EC says all cosmetics ingredients must be properly researched to ensure their safety. Anita Roddick of the Body Shop chain says it is a charter for cruelty.
- May be decided that animal testing is essential for cosmetic ingredients under a new European Law
- Shops that do not practise on animals say they will have to close as they will not conform to the European Law
- Interview – ‘We are horrified, if the proposals go ahead un-amended it could lead to an increasing number of animals being used to test cosmetics and toiletries
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Animal Testing (1997)
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Main Search Term and Keywords: Animal Testing, Animal Rights
Date of Broadcast: 6th November 1997
Clip Duration: 1 min 18 seconds
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Description: The Government has announced that no new licences to test cosmetics on animals will be issued and licences currently held will not be renewed.
- Companies that test cosmetics on animals have agreed after talks with the Government to stop
- No ban on testing for medical research
- Government is determined to stop all non-essential testing on animals
- Only bans the finished products – not the ingredients
- Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop talking
- Campaigners believe it is a step in the right direction
- Now hoped a ban on ingredient testing
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Sheep Cloned (1997)
Barcode (ID): 03B0228919 
Main Search Term and Keywords: Animal Testing, Cloning, Animal Rights
Date of Broadcast: 23rd February 1997
Clip Duration: 1 min 28 seconds
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Description: Scientists in Scotland have been defending a breakthrough which has produced the world’s first clone of an adult animal. Dolly the sheep was cloned from a genetically identical animal at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.
- First section fuzzy section due to copyright
- Roslin Institute, Edinburgh where Dolly was cloned from a stem cell taken from one sheep udder
- Develop new treatments and possibly create sheep that can produce specific treatments for diseases
- Interview from opposition
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