EU ANIMAL TESTING LAW ACTION ALERT

From Uncaged: www.uncaged.co.uk

                                                                      

The UK Government is currently holding a crucial consultation exercise on how it will ‘transpose’ the new EU Directive on animal experiments into UK national laws. This ends on 5 September and will set the scene for animal experiments for a generation.

                                                                  

The entire animal protection movement has extremely serious concerns that the Government wants to relax the already-weak controls on animal experiments. For example, it is threatening to implement loopholes that would allow:

                                                                               

• The infliction of severe and prolonged pain
• Experiments on great apes
• Experiments on stray/feral animals, leading to stolen pets being used in experiments

                                                                     

However, the following proposals are likely to have even deeper pernicious effects:

                                                                               

• Less independent assessment of experimental proposals
• Approving millions of poisoning tests on animals and the breeding of GM animals without proper assessment or accountability
• Maintaining excessive secrecy

                                                         

Please speak up for defenceless animals by submitting your views to this consultation exercise. Click here for further analysis and our expert guidance on how to participate.