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The Animals in Science Policy Institute was founded by animal scientists and welfare advocates based in B.C. last July to provide education on the use of non-animal models in teaching, testing and research.

While organizations with similar aims have been abundant across Europe and the U.S. for decades, Canada has been lagging in this area.

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To help Canada play catch up, Dr Elisabeth Ormandy, Executive Director of AiSPI received funding from Lush Cosmetics’ Charity Pot program and the B.C. Foundation for Non-Animal Research, to start up the new organization. And, their first project is already set to have an impact on the use of thousands of animals used in teaching every year.

Ormandy is looking to help high school teachers find humane alternatives to animal dissections by replacing frogs and pigs with non-animal models that are proven to educate just as effectively as the real thing.