We have the power to help end animal testing

I would like to endorse the recent sentiments expressed by Edward Twohig (Letters, Feb 23) regarding the suffering and untimely deaths of the hundreds of thousands of animals tested in laboratories in Ireland.

Indeed, if one was to look at the global figures, the numbers run into tens of millions every year.

Science will testify that animals are sentient creatures and, like us, humans feel pain, yet we show complete indifference to their suffering and continue to use and abuse them to suit our own selfish needs.