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November 17th vote feedback

rabswood

Wise Old Thumper
Just to let you know:

On the 17th of November, MEPs will vote on tests involving millions of animals. So this vote is a matter of life or death for millions of laboratory animals.


Please email your MEPs
(www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/MembersMain.htm) you can find out how to contact them from this site.

Ask your MEPs to adopt the non-animal testing strategies agreed by the Environment Committee, which amended Annexes V and VI of REACH.
Ask MEPs to vote for:

mandatory data sharing
part of the REACH registration fee to be used to develop additional non-animal tests
existing test data published to prevent duplicate animal testing outside the EU
automatic replacement of animal tests with non-animal methods

Make a point that animal tests are cruel and inefficient, and must be replaced by modern, humane non-animal methods.


This could be the most important thing you do for laboratory animals this year.

If you would like further information go to the National Anti-vivisection Society's website (NAVS)

Many thanks for your time

Lavender, Oxo & Pippin (Rescue Rabs)
Tess, Lily, Tiggy & Boo Boo (Rescue Cats)

And Michelle!
 
My local Lib Dem MP,Vincent Cable is being very pro-active re the RSPCA Welfare Bill. :D Front page news on local paper last night. :D Lets hope those who CAN vote it through DO....!! Jane and Buns xx
 
Just feeding back info after the vote on the 17th by the European Parliament.
I have taken the following from the National Anti-vivisection website:


17 November 2005

The fate of millions of laboratory animals has been decided by today’s vote by the European Parliament on REACH*, which, despite some significant concessions, is likely to see the EU press ahead with the biggest animal testing programme that the world has ever seen.

Animal Defenders International (ADI) believes an opportunity to modernise testing methods and eliminate animal testing has been missed. Twenty amendments, supported by the Environment Committee, putting forward non-animal methods instead of animal tests have been rejected.

Jan Creamer, ADI’s chief executive, commented after the result: “We are bitterly disappointed that the European Parliament has seen fit to reject 20 amendments put forward in the Environment Committee report to use alternatives to experiments on animals. Consequently, REACH remains locked into animal testing, which is like insisting people use typewriters instead of computers. Animal tests are inefficient, outdated, and inaccurate - it is time for change.”

ADI is, however, pleased that several of its key campaign demands have been met including: compulsory sharing of animal test data and increased funding for the development and evaluation of modern non-animal test methods. Also, the new Chemicals Agency will work on developing non-animal tests – if effective, this could finally see the modernisation of test methods across Europe.

Jan Creamer: “I must thank our tens of thousands of supporters who have, over the past two years, distributed hundreds of thousands of leaflets and contacted their MEPs. This action has undoubtedly had a huge impact on today’s vote. But we are bitterly disappointed that a chance to change the way Europe approaches safety testing has not been taken.”

ADI is committed to effective safety testing, and through its department, the Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research developed a British Standard Test for testing the toxicity of dental fillings, and is currently funding several cell culture projects to assess neurotoxicity.

*REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals – the EU’s new system to regulate the manufacture, import and use of chemical substances under a new European Chemicals Agency
 
xV is for VEGANx said:
For those interested or unaware of what this involves and the effect it has on both human and animals lives, please read the following link:

http://www.animalaid.org.uk/viv/lethal.htm

For those wanting to support non-animal testing research organisations/companies or learn more about the alternatives please see here:

http://www.buav.org/gocrueltyfree/

http://www.uncaged.co.uk/index.html

http://www.drhadwentrust.f2s.com/

http://www.shac.net/SCIENCE/links.html
 
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