Please Help support a BAN on Primate Testing in Europe

To: All European Citizens who care about Animals

This is a critical time. The European Commission (EC) is currently
revising the law - known as Directive 86/609 - that governs animal
experiments across Europe.

86/609 is a hugely powerful Directive that has power of life and death
over millions of animals across the continent - setting out minimum
standards for how and whether animals can be used in experiments.

A staggering ten million animals are used in outdated and wasteful
experiments in European laboratories every year. The Directive is
supposed to ensure "the protection of animals used for experimental
and other scientific purposes" but the huge numbers show that it's
just not doing that.

There is a real possibility that with enough support the EC will ban
all primate tests as part of the revised law.

Written Declaration 40/2007 urges the European Parliament to use the
revision process of Directive 86/609/EC as an opportunity to establish
a timetable for replacing the use of all primates in scientific
experiments with alternatives. The Declaration will fall on 7th
September and the signatures of half the MEPs in the Parliament is
needed by then.

If you care about animals visit the following website to urge them to
sign Written Declaration 40/2007.
http://www.navs.org.uk/take_action/39/0/885/

If you want to do more:-

Please write to the European Commission and ask them to ban primate
tests. To help, a prepared letter can be found at
http://www.eceae.org/saveprimates/en/action.html

The address is:-
Mr. Stavros Dimas
Commissioner for Environment
European Commission
B-1049, Brussels, Belgium

Please tell all your colleagues and friends in the UK and Europe about
Written Declaration 40/2007.

For information on Alternatives to Animal Testing and why they work
visit the Dr Hadwen Trust
http://www.drhadwentrust.org/

For further information:-
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2987

http://www.buav.org

Thank You

Tony, Nottingham, England

 

Sorry, I SUPPORT primate testing.

There is just no way that the life of an animal is worth the well-being
of a human being. Those that think so are just plain warped. If
animal testing can provide cures or treatment of humans, I'm all for it.

Do I support ethical treatment of test animals? Yes, I do. There is no
place for intentional suffering. And in that respect, I think lab results
are more valid when the animals are cared for and are as reasonably
comfortable and happy as they can be.

Do I support unneeded testing? No way. Animal testing should be
limited to where testing is NEEDED.

I don't think these views are radical. I think they actually represent
the mainstream. The 'ban all' views are the radical views.

 

i care about animals
they taste greeat cooked with onions and butter whne care is taken when
cooking

 

Ah... People Eating Tasty Animals... VERY good web site, and it
has some very good links.

Although they got sued and lost their web address at PETA.ORG, you
can still find them by doing a web search on the phrase, or going to
http://mtd.com/tasty/

PETA (the animal 'rights' activist group) are at http://www.peta.org/
I seem to recall they were at peta.com before.