Rat Trap

Rat Trap: The Capture of Medicine by Animal Research—and How to Break Free
By Pandora Pound

With devastating logic and clarity, Dr. Pandora Pound, research director at Safer Medicines Trust in the U.K., comprehensively dismantles the case for animal experiments, bringing to an end the 150-year-old debate about their value once and for all. Focusing on the science rather than animal suffering—and including no distressing details—she provides a riveting account of how using animals became so well established, before proceeding to painstakingly reveal the futility and shockingly poor quality of most animal studies.

Medical progress is being thwarted by an obsolete and harmful practice, but Pound showcases the awe-inspiring technologies, both old and new, that would revolutionize medicine if only it could escape the stranglehold of animal experiments. Rat Trap slays the many myths about testing on animals and shows that it’s not a necessary evil and that dismantling the practice is one of the most important and urgent scientific issues of our time.