GREEN MEP Caroline Lucas presented a half-million strong petition against animal experiments to EU parliament environment committee chairman Karl-Heinz Florenz in Brussels this week.
"There are countless examples of animal experimentation giving us misleading information about the safety of drugs and other chemicals," she said.
Official inflation figures understate the real extent of rising costs, but even the government's own CPI scheme lays bare the ongoing misery for working people and those dependent on benefits.