Gill Langley
“When you know that other animals can feel pain and distress in the same ways that humans do, it is unethical to experiment on them.”
Gillian Rose Langley is a British scientist and writer who specializes in alternatives to animal testing and animal rights. She is a member of the Replacement Advisory Group of the British National Centre for the Three Rs. From 1981 until 2009 she was the science director of the Dr. Hadwen Trust, a medical research charity. She was a member of the British government’s Animal Procedures Committee for eight years, and has worked as a consultant for the European Commission, and for animal protection organizations in Europe and the United States.
Langley is the author of Vegan Nutrition (1988), and editor of Animal Experimentation: The Consensus Changes (1990). She has written a number of reports for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection and the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments.
Langley is a passionate vegan because of ethical reasons.