Legislazione REACH milioni di animali a rischio
Attenzione ricevo e giro dalla Peta:
E' importante scrivere ai parlamentari del proprio stato perchè il 4 Ottobre gli sarà chiesta la parola sulla legislazione REACH, che permetterebbe la tortura e l'uccisione di milioni di animali
Chi può scriva qui sotto le email dei Parlamentari Italiani all'Ambiente, Salute e Igiene Alimentare , così gli si potrà scrivere a proposito.
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> Important Vote on Massive Animal-Testing Plan Coming Up: Tens of
Millions of Animals at Risk
>
> On October 4, members of the European Parliament?s Committee on
Environment, Public Health and Food Safety will vote on an important piece
of legislation known as REACH (Registration, Evaluation and
Authorisation of Chemicals). REACH intends to regulate toxic chemicals and protect
human health and the environment from dangerous chemicals. However, it
also has the potential to dramatically increase the number of animals
killed in toxicity tests, reversing all previous trends of decreased
animal usage.
>
> Fortunately, Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for South East England,
is campaigning to incorporate a non-animal testing programme into the
REACH legislation. Her proposal, which can be viewed at
http://www.reachnonanimaltests.org, aims to replace all proposed animal tests with non-animal
test methods.
>
> Ms Lucas states, ?By writing to your MEP and urging [him or her] to
support any non-animal testing amendments to REACH, you can play a vital
role in preventing an estimated extra 1,500 animal tests per
high-production toxic chemical. These tests will involve force-feeding toxic
substances to animals over weeks and years and, like all animal tests, are
scientifically unreliable because of the difficulties extrapolating
results from animals to people and from laboratory to real life exposure?.
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> It is becoming obvious to everyone that relying on outdated, cruel
and irrelevant animal tests does not serve the current need to regulate
hazardous chemicals and stands in the way of real progress.
>
> Please contact your MEPs who sit on this committee immediately and
politely urge them to vote to incorporate all of MEP Lucas? amendments to
annexes V?VIII of REACH. Let your MEP know that all non-animal test
methods that are currently available must be incorporated and, in cases
where they are not currently available, funding must be increased for
their development and implementation, rather than resorting to the
non-validated animal tests. Without these amendments, REACH must be opposed
because the great strides made in reducing the number of animals killed
in toxicity testing in Europe will otherwise be lost, and tens of
millions of animals will die.
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> Contact information for the MEPs who sit on the Environment Committee
can be found at
http://www.europarl.eu.int/activities/e ... ittee=1239.
Please contact the ones from your country.
>
> We need as many European voices as possible to speak up for animals.
Please send this e-mail to your friends, family, colleagues and anyone
else you can think of who may respond.
> Thank you,
> Troy Seidle
> Director of Science Policy
> People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
> http://www.StopEUChemicalTests.com
> http://www.StopAnimalTests.com