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Subject : European survey on the welfare of animals used for experimental

purposes

 

 

Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Commission,

 

The European Commission is currently carrying out a survey on the

welfare of animals used for experimental purposes; please see the

following website for details

http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=experimentalanimals

 

As a citizen of the European Union I would like to participate in this

poll. The questionnaire however, in its present form, does not permit

this. The format of question no.13 raises an important matter in the

sense that it does not allow me to express my position against

experimentation on animals independent of the fact that alternatives

exist or not. This question is indicated as " optional " which is not in

fact the case because it is impossible to proceed to validate the form

unless it is completed.

 

It is indeed regrettable to realise that this questionnaire does not

conform to the democratic principles of the European Union because it

only allows a certain number of European citizens to give their opinion

on the extremely important matter of the rights of laboratory animals.

And it is even more disappointing to note the European Commission's

position in taking recourse to vivisection for want of alternative methods.

 

May I perhaps remind you that each year one thousand million animals are

sacrificed in experimental laboratories across the globe. The figures

given by the European Union which may be consulted on the following

website

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/pdf/com_2005_7_fr.pdf)

are largely under-estimated because they do not take into account the

following animals: transgenic animals, animals tested for military

experiments and animals used in testing raw materials for the cosmetics

industry etc.

 

The results obtained from animal testing are more and more

scientifically controversial (cf.

http://www.antidote-europe.org/pourquoi_animal_fr.htm). Animal

experimentation is dangerous for man because the animal model is not

comparable to the human model. There is a vast number of molecules which

can bring about radically different effects according to the species and

models chosen. For example, penicillin is an antibiotic which treats

infections in man yet is deadly for the guinea pig, digitaline raises

the blood pressure in dogs but lowers it in a human being etc ...The

result is that throughout the world thousands of human beings die as a

result of side effects of medication tested on the animal model. Medical

side effects constitute the fourth cause of mortality in the developed

countries. There is no lack of examples: Vioxx, Oraflex, Suprol,

Thalidomide .......

 

Animal experimentation is not only dangerous but immoral, contrary to

ethics and constitutes an assault on our dignity. An animal is reduced

to an object and denied all right to the respect which as a living being

should be his due.

 

In sending you this letter, I join together with all those who ask the

researchers, the companies and the governments to put an end to animal

experimentation and instead to promote more responsible science within

which man will find a new place amongst all living beings.

 

Yours faithfully,

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