The fight in Italy
against animal experimentation
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86% of Italians want to abolish vivisection
Italian activists are fighting terribly hard against vivisection, while their Senate is discussing some amendments to the European Directive 63/2010 which shall make vivisectors’ lives very difficult.
And this is the point: vivisectors from all over the world are watching at them and they are fighting them back.
We have discovered that as we all write to Italian politicians against vivisection and reminding them that 86% of Italians wants to abolish it and that they have the popular sovereignty, so the vivisectors all over the world are writing to them in order to convince them not to amend the Directive!
Especially, the American Foundation for Biomedical Research not only has created an advertising campaign featuring huge posters in favor of vivisection, in which a rat tells a little girl: "Maybe one day I'll be able to save lives", but it is also urging its members and supporters to write to Italian politicians!
The vivisectors of the world look at Italy with fear
Taken from website of the Greenhill Campaign Italy
25 April 2012
That the vivisectors are concerned about the amendment that could pass the Senate is not new. The various operations of Garattini and other vivisectors, advertising campaigns, press releases, all the evidence. But yesterday we had information of another move by the American vivisectors. The Foundation for Biomedical Research, the same who designed a pro-vivisection campaign we talked about recently, has sent to its members and supporters a newsletter about what is happening in Italy, seeking to put pressure on the Senate Committee XIV.
From across the ocean is greatly concerned about and the reason is that even a small achievement as the prohibition of breeding of some species may be taken as an example to other European countries and, beginning to create serious problems to the lobby of Torture .
For this reason, the FBR, which is one of the most important lobby of vivisectors worldwide, calls on all supporters to send e-mail to Rossana Boldi (fourteenth President of the Senate Committee), the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Europe.
Clearly we have moved the waters that were to remain quiet and now pharmaceutical companies, farmers, research centers and vivisectors are coalescing, still trying to keep science in a dark cage made of captivity and suffering for millions of animals. Even a small step towards an ethic of respect for other animals. And then tell us who want to return to the Middle Ages!
Below the full text of the English-version of the email that FBR certainly did not want to end up in the hands of animal rights activists.
We understand that the vivisectors around the world can not silence the conscience of 86% of Italians said they were against vivisection!
Copy of the email from FBR
THIS IS WHAT THE VIVISECTION LOBBY SAYS:
From: Foundation for Biomedical Research <info@fbresearch.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012
Subject: Follow-Up: ITALY – Biomedical Research and the Animal Rights Movement
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH BEING THREATENED NOW!!
We need your help…NOW!
Many of you have already sent an email, but if you haven’t already, please consider doing so.
WE NEED YOU TO SEND AN EMAIL TODAY!!!
All across the world, animal rights groups are launching campaigns designed to block biomedical research using animals.
There’s a comprehensive effort to block the air transportation of non-human primates. And now in Italy, Senators are close to passing a national law that would block the breeding of certain species of animals for research.
We need your help…NOW!
On February 2, 2012, the Italian Chamber of Deputies passed the law. Now the Senate will vote on DDL n. 3129 in the coming weeks.
Article 14 (part C) of this law states: “…to forbid the breeding of primates, dogs and cats destined to the experimental purposes as per letter b, in the whole of the national territory.” The European Union passed a directive that is intended to harmonize all standards for lab animals (Directive 2010/63/UE), yet Italy is going beyond that directive, so we must support the biomedical research community and do all that we can to inform the Senate and prevent this bill from becoming law.
To read the entire letter, please click HERE (and scroll down)
Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012
Subject: Follow-Up: ITALY – Biomedical Research and the Animal Rights Movement
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH BEING THREATENED NOW!!
We need your help…NOW!
Many of you have already sent an email, but if you haven’t already, please consider doing so.
WE NEED YOU TO SEND AN EMAIL TODAY!!!
All across the world, animal rights groups are launching campaigns designed to block biomedical research using animals.
There’s a comprehensive effort to block the air transportation of non-human primates. And now in Italy, Senators are close to passing a national law that would block the breeding of certain species of animals for research.
We need your help…NOW!
On February 2, 2012, the Italian Chamber of Deputies passed the law. Now the Senate will vote on DDL n. 3129 in the coming weeks.
Article 14 (part C) of this law states: “…to forbid the breeding of primates, dogs and cats destined to the experimental purposes as per letter b, in the whole of the national territory.” The European Union passed a directive that is intended to harmonize all standards for lab animals (Directive 2010/63/UE), yet Italy is going beyond that directive, so we must support the biomedical research community and do all that we can to inform the Senate and prevent this bill from becoming law.
To read the entire letter, please click HERE (and scroll down)
This is what we say:
MAKE VIVISECTION HISTORY!
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the 86% of Italians who want to see an end to vivisection
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Senator Rossana Boldi (14th chair of the Senate Committee)
Renato Balduzzi (Minister of Health)
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Listen to your people: Make Vivisection History!
Gentili Signore e Signori,
We believe that 86% of Italians, that is over 4/5ths of the citizens of your country, are against vivisection and want to ban experiments on animals.
This is good news, and good news finds a way to be heard worldwide. There is already a groundswell of global support for Italy, from concerned people and organizations in many countries who applaud such a ban.
And if Italy leads, the world will follow.
Are companies more important than the people who voted you in? Please do the right thing. We do not need to tell you what you already know: that this is 2012, and vivisection is redundant.
We will continue to watch and see if your government will lean towards what the Italian people want, versus what the big companies want.
Yours respectfully,
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