The transposition of the European Directive on vivisection, which will soon be approved in England, is of considerable concern to the British animal welfare associations and beyond. According to LEAL, the Antivisectionist League, the British government intends to transpose the directive as it is, essentially making a copy and paste of the text, without discussing it in parliament, without starting the debate with the opposition and without changing a comma of as established last September in Strasbourg.
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The implementation of the European directive on vivisection, which will soon be approved in England, is of great concern to the British animal rights associations and beyond. According to LEAL, the Anti-Divisection League, the British government intends to transpose the directive as it is, essentially making a copy and paste of the text, without discuss it in parliament, without starting the debate with the opposition and without changing one iota of what was established last September in Strasbourg.
In practice, restrictions are introduced, but do not get rid of the horrors of the past, which bring great suffering to animals and ultimately death. The RSPCA, the oldest English antivivisectionist association, speaks of a "red alert" also because with this rule which among others introduces the green light for experimentation on stray animals, the standards of protection of laboratory animals currently enjoyed by the laboratory would be lowered. United Kingdom. This is why the association is on a war footing and has sent a document to the Government with the main points that the new law should provide. Between these:
- il ban on using the Great Monkeys;
- L 'repeated use of the same animal in experiments that cause him intense pain, suffering and distress;
- the prohibition of aauthorize searches through "simplified administrative procedures";
- the prohibition without exception of testing on animals in danger of extinction, on those taken in their natural environment and on those strays or wild;
- the prohibition of painful experiments such as major surgical operations performed without anesthesia to evaluate the effectiveness of analgesics.
In practice, as requested by the British animal welfare associations, the "Government should pursue animal welfare standards higher than those defined by European law in order to reflect the ethics and culture of British public opinion" ...
The fact is that the Directive approved in recent months, created to protect the welfare of animals, in the process of being approved has lost important pieces and clauses, becoming a scandalous text with too many conditionals and few imperatives that has left a free hand to vivisectors and free will. Member States which now, by approving a particularly restrictive national implementation, risk concentrating drug lobbies in countries where the need for animal welfare is less felt. The MEP of the IDV Sonia Alfano had mobilized against this directive and a proposal for a law of popular initiative was in progress. Today, that same text is about to be approved in one of the states that has always been more sensitive than others to animal problems.
And if England passes these rules, what will happen in the transposition of the directive by the other EU nations? What happened to the substitute methods card? What can we do?
In our own small way we could support the various campaigns against vivisection starting with the petition to the European Parliament promoted by the site www.stopvivisezione.net where you can read “Vivisection is a frighteningly dramatic and urgent reality and its future depends on the choice of each of us. But all together - we European citizens - can stop it! Everyone's participation and commitment is really necessary ".
Verdiana Amorosi
This is the document sent to the Governdo by the RSPCA
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