Support Non-Animal Testing for Medical Progress

I am 46 years old and care about the Environment, Public safety and Animal Welfare.
I am concerned that not enough is being done to develop Alternatives to Animal Testing. Advances are made every day and new procedures show promise but need investment. Alternative Testing is superior to Animal Testing and is Medical Progress. This is shown by the evidence provided by the many organizations that are involved in promoting Alternative Testing. The review of Directive 86609 is an opportunity for the European Parliament to make replacing Animal Testing with Alternatives a priority.

UK - Stop rise in number of animals tested with food additives

tonygal001 | 01 April, 2008 12:36

All UK Citizens

The trend for healthier eating has led to an increase of more than 300% in the number of laboratory experiments conducted on animals for food additives, sweeteners and health supplements in 2006 compared to 2005. In fact, food products are being tested on animals even though they are already being used by consumers.

These tests, when they involve natural ingredients such as raspberry juice and cabbage, cannot be for safety purposes. Health benefits of such foodstuffs are well known and any further information that might be obtained can be easily researched from human volunteers if this was deemed necessary.

Please ask your MP to sign "Early Day Motion (EDM) 4" , which calls on the Government to stop granting licences for experiments for additives and other foodstuffs.

To do this you can visit http://www.vote4animals.org.uk/edm4.htm

Thank You

Tonyg, London, England