Uncaged Campaigns is a

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, UK, based anti-

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, not-for-profit organization that advocates for

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History

Uncaged Campaigns was established in 1993 by Angela Roberts and Lynn Williamson. They are a peaceful international animal protection organization based in Sheffield, England. Their main campaigns are opposition to animal experiments and

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, and the positive promotion of

and democratic action on animal issues through the political system.

Dan Lyons Daniel Louis Lyons is the chief executive officer of the Centre for Animals and Social Justice, a British animal protection charity. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield and the author of ''The Politics of Animal Ex ...

was campaigns director until becoming the CEO of the

Centre for Animals and Social Justice The Centre for Animals and Social Justice (CASJ) is a British charity founded in 2011 to advance the social and political status of nonhuman animals. The CASJ aims to "embed animal protection as a core goal of public policy." Dan Lyons, former c ...

in 2011. Uncaged Campaigns is an animal rights organization that rejects

animal welfare Animal welfare is the quality of life and overall well-being of animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare groups, legislators, and academics. Animal welfare science uses measures ...

. They have commented that "animal welfare is an empty concept without the legal right to have that welfare protected. Uncaged promoted an international debate about the ethical and political status of animals and campaigned for international recognition of animal rights".

Activism

Uncaged aims include:

Notability

Uncaged are noted for their campaigns in the UK against vivisection and in particular their Global Boycott of Procter & Gamble due to the company's continued use of animal testing for cosmetics. This has taken the form of media campaigns resulting in TV and newspaper coverage. They achieved publicity by projecting the message ''"Procter & Gamble test on animals"'' onto the ''

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'' statue in March 2006. Uncaged also won the legal right to publish the "Diaries of Despair" report and over a thousand pages of confidential documents that describe in unique detail experiments involving the transplant of

genetically modified Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including th ...

pig organs into five hundred primates. The papers reveal researchers at the former biotechnology company, Imutran, exaggerated the success of work aimed at adapting pig organs for human transplant. In July 2009 Uncaged, along with MPs and MEPs from across the political spectrum, presented the largest ever British animal protection petition with 1.5 million signatures to

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. The petition called on the

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to develop a roadmap for the elimination of animal experimentation."MP helps present petition to end animal testing"
''Worthing Herald'', 15 July 2009. Uncaged has also garnered support from British politicians including

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MP, Liberal Democrat. The Uncaged website quotes him, "Uncaged keeps alive the flame of hope that one day, animal experiments will seem as outdated as today sending children up chimneys seems." Uncaged has always maintained a peaceful protest philosophy.

References

External links

Official Uncaged Campaigns website
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Organizations established in 1993

History

Activism

Notability

See also

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