tomintheshire

Hi Natalie As you know, your policy AR428 plans to cause the banning of xenotransplantation unto animals. This process is of vital importance to current academic and pharmaceutical biomedical research.

While being a major process of Cancer research, I am confused as to why you wish to hamper our current efforts into using this process to find new therapies.The only major alternative to this is through genetically modified mice but once again your manifesto wants to ban that as well.

So my Question is.

With British research in Cancer being world leading why do you aim to significantly hamper this and force current research funding out of the UK and into other countries where animal testing practices are legal, and as such can produce ground breaking research which requires animal testing?

Thing is you should definately get him to consider submitting it as a case report to a Case Report journal. If its open access, any clinician globally would be able to find it and see the BA is a solution to it

Dont worry and thanks for being interested enough to ask!

• Xenotransplantation is essentially the transplanting of human tissue to animals or animal tissue to humans. It will affect research hugely especially in the fields of cancer research because that's where its widely used.

• An example would be seeing how effective a new drug is at treating a new type of cancer. So after testing on just cancer cells, we would want to see how it works in a living thing. For this we would graft the tumour cells onto a mouse and then give the mouse the drug to see if it is still effective.

• Removing this means we cant see if the drug or therapy is effective, and as such are forced to risk human trials for the sake of animal deaths. It will also heavily slow down research as it takes years to get human testing approved currently.

At the moment they are trying to ban the whole process. Yes they could ban certain methods and not others, but then where do you draw the line between what is and isn't allowed? all the while slowing down research more!

AR406: We support a ban on the use of GMOs in animal feed and oppose all genetic modification of animals.

They try to hide it in the good policy of banning prophylactic AB usage in animal feeds.

The Green party believe it is immoral to treat animals just as factories for spare parts.

So your reply to me is that you believe this is a bigger issue then saving human lives within the United Kingdom and the world?

Edit: Worth noting that she brings up morality but I didn't adress that. I wanted to discuss how she hopes to support pharmaceutical industries and biomedical academia when it starts to decline as a result of these policies.