Oxford Union: "This House WOULD Test On Animals"
Pro-Test's founder, Laurie Pycroft, lead a distinguished team of debaters at the Oxford Union last week to defeat a proposed motion, This House Would Not Test On Animals. Pro-Vivisection views won the day, with 85% (225 our of 331) voting in favour of continued animal testing.
Debating against Dr Gill Langley and Alistair Currie (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) Andrew Knight (specialist in welfare science) and Uri Gellar (spoon-bending 'psychic'), Laurie was accompanied by eminent scientists Prof Lord Robert Winston (TV personality, former President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science), Prof Colin Blakemore (Chief Executive, British Medical Research Council) and Prof John Stein (Oxford University Professor of Physiology and Pro-Test member).
Laurie made Union history by becoming the youngest ever person to speak there, aged just 16 years and 6 months.
Press coverage:
Debating against Dr Gill Langley and Alistair Currie (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) Andrew Knight (specialist in welfare science) and Uri Gellar (spoon-bending 'psychic'), Laurie was accompanied by eminent scientists Prof Lord Robert Winston (TV personality, former President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science), Prof Colin Blakemore (Chief Executive, British Medical Research Council) and Prof John Stein (Oxford University Professor of Physiology and Pro-Test member).
Laurie made Union history by becoming the youngest ever person to speak there, aged just 16 years and 6 months.
Press coverage:
- The Observer
- BBC News (18:30, 27 April)
posted by Lee at 4:10 PM
