Italian antivivisection campaign Close down Morini

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Dear friends,

 

probably many of you already know the Italian antivivisection

campaign " Close down Morini " - where Morini is a farm which has been

selling animals to vivisection laboratories (dogs and rodents) for

more than 30 years. You can find info about the campaign on the

website: http://www.morinicampaign.tk

 

Anyway, we are now here to ask your help for a specific purpose: now

it's the time to make a STRONG pressure on the Mayor of S. Polo

d'Enza, the small town where the farm is located. Why? Well, let's

take a few steps back... two years ago, thanks to the huge protests

from the public opinion all over Italy, horrified by the use of

young beagle dogs in the vivisection laboratories, the Emilia

Romagna Regional Council approved a regional law stating that " cats

and dogs cannot be sold and used for experiments all over the

region " . This law has caused a lot of problems to the Morini farm,

because its main income came from selling the dogs, more than

rodents or any other animal, to the laboratories.

 

But the vivisectors pressured the national Italian Government, so

the judgement of the validity of this law has been submitted to

the " Constitutional Court " . The Court has been examining the case

for more than one year, during which time fortunately the law has

been applied, and the farm has not been authorized to sell dogs to

the vivisectors.

 

Few weeks ago came the result of the Court examination: a bad

result, because they decided that the law is not valid - they said

that a single

region cannot decide on this matter.

 

But at the moment the farm cannot sell dogs to the laboratories,

yet, because in order to have the necessary permission renewed, the

Mayor of the town must give an explicit authorization.

 

The former Mayor was absolutely in favour of the Morini farm, but A

FEW

WEEKS AGO A NEW MAYOR HAS BEEN ELECTED!

So it's really important to make pressure on him to convince him to

" reconvert " the farm to another activity.

 

The interesting and new event is that a few days ago an " Open

Meeting " of citiziens and companies operating in S. Polo has been

created.

They wrote an " open letter " to the Mayor, asking him to stop the

activity of the farm, both because of its cruelty and because of the

damage to the " image " of the region and consequently to the business

opportunities of all the other local companies**.

 

At this crucial moment, the Mayor must feel the responsibility for

such a choice. It's a fundamental moment.

 

For this reason, we invite all of your to send him and all the

regional council members, a " strong and clear " message. Here we

present a draft

message, but you are invited to write a personal one!

 

During the " Open Meeting " , a network of animals shelter has been

activated, and they are ready to accomodate ALL the animals now kept

in the farm.

 

The complete text of the " open letter " to the Mayor can be found at

the

page:

http://www.novivisezione.org/morini.html

 

 

Please, take part in this protest!

Thank you very much.

 

Massimo Tettamanti, Marina Berati

www.Novivisezione.org

 

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Draft message

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Dear Mayor of S. Polo d'Enza,

Dear Regional Councillors,

 

having been informed of the creation in S. Polo of an " Open Meeting

on the Morini case " , which asked you not to allow the Morini farm to

keep selling dogs and cats to the experimentation laboratories, I

want to express my full support to the goals of the Open Meeting.

 

Given that the Morini farm has been given the opportunity to

be " converted " to a cruelty-free activity (thus ceasing to sell any

kind of animals to the labs), I think that this is the right way to

go, and invite you, as a Mayor of the city, to do what is in your

power to reach this important and humane goal.

 

Best regards,

name, country

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