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Brian May And Peter Egan Back NAVS’ Call To End Misleading Animal Tests

Brian May And Peter Egan Back NAVS’ Call To End Misleading Animal Tests

by The Daily Eye Team May 2 2017, 4:16 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 33 secs

Ahead of World Day for Laboratory Animals on Monday April 24th, animal advocates Queen guitarist Brian May and actor Peter Egan are supporting calls by the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) for the use of animals in research to be replaced with modern alternatives as animal tests are misleading and fundamentally flawed, causing both animal and human suffering. National Anti-Vivisection Society Campaigns Director Vice President Tim Phillips said: “This World Day for Laboratory Animals we urge governments, researchers and industry to commit to the replacement of misleading animal tests with advanced alternatives. Modern methods are safer, more accurate, and better for animals and people.”

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Rinki was born with cinema in her veins. Her journalistic journey began when she was in her twenties. She filed features on cinema, investigative reports about new wave directors, interviews with eminent film makers & artists; Satyajit Ray, Costa Gavras, Carlo Ponti, Toshiro Mifune, Victor Bannerjee. She designed sets & costumes, subtitled films by Ray, Mrinal &, Aparna Sen, Rituporno Ghosh. Her non-fiction works include a man of silence, behind closed doors, Janani, the man who spoke in pictures, Madhumati. In 1985 Rinki founded the help Ngo to support women in distress and made her documentary: Char Diwari on domestic violence. She is also the founder chairperson of the Bimal Roy film society.


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