THE dreadful effect on human volunteers of the new drug TGN1412 covered in many national news reports is yet more evidence to show that experiments on animals are not only cruel to animals but useless too.

This new drug had been given to monkeys in doses 500 times stronger than that in the near fatal human tests.

There is a safe alternative available in the science of microdosing' which saves both people and animals from trauma. For more information and to do something about it, contact Animal defenders International on 0208-846-9777 or log onto the website at www.ad-international.org.

Emily Chadwick, Morecambe.