Some 200 people took to the streets in the Spsh capital on Saturday to march against lab tests on mals on World Day for Laboratory mals, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
Protesters gathered at Jacinto Benavente Square, carrying placards with slogans like "Stop Vivisection." Other placards showed the numbers of mals that are used for laboratory research in Spain annually, including 25,931 rabbits, 1,476, dogs, 1,700 cattle, and 3,218 amphibians.
The protest was orgsed by the Free Fox association and joined by other groups.
The event took place amid an mal treatment scandal that rocked Spain's capital and even got prosecutors involved. A video documenting cruel treatment of mals at the laboratory Vivotecnia in the municipality of Tres Cantos was posted on YouTube, prompting the authorities to suspend the laboratory's activities.
Instituted in 1979 by the National Anti-Vivisection Society, World Day for Laboratory mals has people marching all over the globe to protests cruel treatment of mals that are used in scientific research. According to the mal rights orgzation maNaturalis, more than 100 million mals are used in experiments every year, almost all of them die in the process. (/Sputnik)
( With inputs from ANI )
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