The public does not want to fund animal experiments

Despite a recent report from the UK Home office showing that the number of animal tests and the numbers of animals used in experiments is growing, most Britons do not believe that tax payer money should be used to build or fund vivisection laboratories.

"A total of 57% of respondents said they did not want public money spent on building laboratories, while 40% thought it was right that taxpayers' money be spent in this way. "

There is real debate on this issue in the UK, and serious media coverage. If the same people expressed their opinions here, they'd be on some big brother-ish watch list.

BBC NEWS Programmes Newsnight Home Half 'against funding animal labs'