Ask MCI to Stop Animal Experiments

Many medical colleges across India are forced to continue conducting cruel animal experiments and maintaining animal houses because of the Medical Council of India's (MCI) regulatory requirements.

An overwhelming majority of medical schools in the US, Canada and the UK – including the highly regarded US institutions Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University – have ended the use animals in their curricula. Even prominent government agencies are now promoting a paradigm shift towards using cutting-edge, non-animal research methodologies because numerous recent studies have shown that animal experiments often waste lives – both animal and human – and precious resources by trying to infect animals with diseases which they would never contract normally.

As the world moves forward with newer and safer technologies, India should take the lead and not lag behind. PETA has asked MCI to amend the Graduate Medical Education Regulations of 1997 to allow medical colleges to prohibit the use of animals in their curricula.

You Can Help
PETA India is already campaigning hard for MCI to stop forcing medical colleges to use animals in experiments. Please support our campaign by writing to MCI and the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA) to urge them to amend their regulations and stop forcing medical colleges to use animals in experiments.