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Hello,

I'm contacting you about the European citizens' initiative STOP VIVISECTION.
Thanks to this initiative, if we reach one million signatures, the European Commission will have to seriously take into consideration our request to end animal testing.

We have already obtained 479.000 signatures, that's nearly half of our goal!
In the United Kingdom, we have collected 5 200 signatures, 10% of the 54.750 expected signatures.

Please, come and sign the initiative on the official website , and if possible spread out the word about it. We have until the end of October to collect the million signatures and therefore make our voices heard in the European Union.

Thank you.
Severine for STOP VIVISECTION

I'll sign but only if:

You can assure me that all one million people will be happy we will never be able to cure a number of serious diseases, not just in humans but also in animals, including newly emerging disases and epidemics; and are quite happy to put themselves forward as quality control human guinea pigs for items we already enjoy the benefit of but which still need occasional testing.

Cobie

Only European citizen can sign the initiative.

Animal experimentation has never undergone the "validation" process that is required of non-animal methods, although validation is the reference parameter that should apply equally to animal tests.

Animal testing is still used, due to the mental inertia hindering any change, but also and mostly due to massive economic interests. In fact, animal testing conveniently allows manufacturers of chemical products to select the species or strain of animals to suit their commercial interests.
Animal testing also allows getting around civil liability in the case of disasters, through the "uncertainty of evidence".

The consequence of this serious harm to the environment and human health, which are both increasingly compromised by chemical pollution.

Through the European Citizens' Initiative "Stop Vivisection", we aim at ensuring that a new directive replaces the Directive 2010/63, and that the EU, which is now stuck in an old scientific perspective, puts an end to such a long period of obscurantism and proposes a new law. In this new law, the rapid replacement of old testing in vivo with much more modern technologies available shall be defined.
This will provide immense benefits to:
. The realibility of results
. The completeness of data obtained
. The rapidity of responses
. Cost reduction

The abolition of vivisection will also contribute to a society of solidarity and respect for all living beings that we are striving to create, as this kind of society is the only one able to save our planet.

Source: the poster of the Stop Vivisection initiative.

"Change often involves a pivotal event that opens the door to a new era. Pivotal events in science include the discovery of penicillin, the elucidation of the DNA double elix, and the development of computers. Toxicology, is approaching such a pivotal point:".

These revolutionary words, referring to the transition from animal testing to in-vitro methods, of the USA National Research Council in the report "Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century" (2007), have also been adopted by Donald Prater, head of the European Office of the US Food and Drug Administration, in a seminar at the European Parliament (10.10.12).

In fact, tests performed on animals are not predictive for humans and are a serious error in biomedical research, as well as an obstacle to the development of new revolutionary methods, based on the recent developments of biology and genetics.

Source: the poster of the Stop Vivisection Initiative.

Pardon me yawning but again you parrot without engaging the brain. Drug companies or researchers do NOT need another EU initiative, since companies look after their profits and shareholders (even AR people know that, they always reproach them for it) so they will use any cheaper validated and legally approved method not using animals if only because animals will always be more expensive than a tissue culture (and tissue cultures are not "animal-free"). But no tissue culture can replace the intact organism, and therefore the law protects the citizens by demanding drugs will after initial safety trials still be tested in whole animals; and only and only then be approved for release if they subsequently have also been tested in a series of human trials - as you, Letizia, have now been informed of several times on this forum, yet you give us all another dose of AR claptrap supporting a useless initiative.

We are at 520.000 signatures, and we need to reach 1.000.000 signature, mainly from 7 countries in European Union, before the 1st November 2013.

This is the situation of the signatures now
http://www.stopvivisection.eu/en/conten ... context=en

Please sign the initiative if you are European Citizen.
If not you can spread it in USA, also printing and pasting the manifests, spreading the leaflets that you can find at http://www.stopvivisection.eu/en/content/flyer

It's for animal rights, for your health, for how your money would be spent.

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No, it show which country is more informed on the topic and ready to rebel to the conservatives.
Slovenia, Italy and Belgium are the leaders.


They are able to rebel to the conservative catholic oppressive mentality and to the strong economic powers of the drugs companies and researchers.

France and Spain are at the same level.

Bulgaria is relatively in a good position.

Germany is back. And that's strange because Germany is full of vegans, vegetarians and animalists. But the drugs companies and the researchers are very powerful there.
I think Germany will jump in a good position last minute.

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With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

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With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

Some background on the PCRM:

http://www.activistcash.com/organizatio ... -medicine/

“Less than 5 percent of PCRM’s members are physicians,” Newsweek wrote in February 2004. The respected news magazine continued:

The fact that the AMA has had so many problems with the medical claims is interesting in and of itself.

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With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

_________________
With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein