RSPCA Petition

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Hi all,
was browsing the RSPCA website and came across their petition for experimentation on animals. Until there is a total ban on experimentation the RSPCA are campaigning for tighter regulations and greater controls.

This was noted on their website.

The most recent official data available shows that over 12 million animals were used in experiments throughout the EU during 2005*. This figure includes:

nearly six-and-a-half-million mice

over two million rats

more than one-and-a-half-million fish

half-a-million guinea-pigs and rabbits

over 10,000 primates

over 20,000 dogs

Animals are used in research for all sorts of reasons, from developing pharmaceutical drugs and producing vaccines against diseases to testing substances such as chemicals and medicines to assess their safety. Animals are also used in studies simply to add to human knowledge of how humans and animals bodies work.

Many experimental procedures and the ways in which the animals are kept can cause considerable distress and suffering. This is of great concern to the RSPCA and to the public.

Directive aims
The European Commission is in the process of revising EU Directive (86/609EEC), which has remained unchanged for 20 years.

The aim of the Directive is to regulate the use of animals in experiments, to set minimum standards for the housing and care of animals and to set requirements for training of the people involved in animal use. It also aims to reduce the number of animals used in experiments by encouraging the use of humane alternatives.

Time for change
A significant amount of the current wording of the Directive is open to interpretation, and in places it does not reflect new uses of animals, or the latest scientific thinking in relation to the behaviour and welfare of animals.

The European Commission is currently drafting a proposal for the Directive's revision which will be presented to the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament for consideration.



* European Commission (2007) 'Fifth report on the statistics on the number of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes in the Member States of the European Union' Brussels. (Data relates to 2005 for all EU countries apart from France, which provided data for 2004).

Here is a link if you want to include your name on the petition
http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCA/RSPCARedirect&pg=directive86609&marker=1&articleId=1182868815121
 
i have signed it too, hopefully something will be done. I hate to see any kind of animal suffering.
 
I've had a leaflet sent through today from Naturewatch and it details the animal cruelty that goes on in China - it is absolutely awful (too bad to go into any detail on here!). To this day too many people just don't give a hoot about animals.
 
i'm going to get lynched & it is easy to pick up on the downside but equally i can see the benfits of animal testing. Cant argue with it being done reasonably but does seem a little like mention animal testing & i'll sign up whatever which i dont think is the big picture.
I'll get me coat as i cant even be rational in my own head with the amount of blood/stella limit :D
Si
 
Si, I agree, without animal testing we wouldn't have half the lifesaving drugs avaliable to us today, but the petition isn't talking about a total ban on animal testing (although I'm sure a lot of people would like that to happen), it focuses more on getting better housing and living conditions for the animals, as well as only using them for testing when absolutely nescessary, all of which I totally agree with. While an animal is on this planet it should have access to good living conditions and care. A lot of testing they do is not nescessary and should stop.

Angela, animals in China are kept extremely badly. It's almost like they have no concept of animal feelings there.
 
Doesn't sound like a good excuse as i type it but China is a totally different culture so hard to compare it and without being too facaecious it's easy for us to be so pampered about others animals needs when we are very comfortable ourselves.
Si
 
Testing for cosmetics i don't agree with, but i am for the testing on animals for the purpose of drugs etc. To me, i feel there is a difference between the animals i have as a pet and the ones they test on. I know its a strange way to look at it, but if i ever get cancer (touch wood) and they said to me if only we could have tested on animals we might have a cure for you, i'd be really annoyed at myself for going against it. If we don't test on animals are us humans going to volunter for the job? I think not.
 
Done it.

The problem with testing on animals for human drugs is that we are not the same and the responses will be different (ie penicillin - and where would we be without that?).

The way forward is the use of stem cells. Then we don't need to use animals at all. Bring it on.
 
agreed & hopoefully a cure for diabetes with it :D Bloody pro lifers protesting against that kinda thing!
 
I am totally against the testing on animals for beauty & household products but medicine is a totally different matter. But they have to tighen the conditions that the animals that are tested on are kept - they should also look at testing in other ways so that gradually the use of animals can be withdrawn.
 
Signed up. Regarding the odd comment above about testing drugs using animals.

Research has shown that using animals gives no conclusive proof of the effectiveness of a drug. This is because an animals genetic `make-up` is very different to humans. The anti-vivisection societies have proof of this fact.

Sadly, the experimentors (or should they be called sadists) still pump out their propaganda for more charity money to keep them in a job.

Stem cell and bio culture and human testing is the only way forward to test drugs.

I know money will reply to this reply but this is my first and last word on the matter. Otherwise the link never ends and its not my link anyway.
 
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