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Animal Experimentation Laws Fail to Meet Basic Standards for Protecting Animals in Laboratories. The European Commission has sent letters of formal notice to six EU countries regarding inadequacies in their national laws designed to protect animals in laboratories. 

Each member state was required to transfer Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes into national legislation by 10 November 2012. 

However, nearly six years later, the Commission has found widespread failings in the domestic laws of Estonia, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain. Here are the issues:

• Estonia: The Commission identified over 20 articles and three annexes from the Directive that Estonia had failed to enact appropriately.

• Germany: Not only is it possible that German laboratories aren't subject to proper inspections, the wording of German law is also lacking as regards competency requirements for staff and does not adequately require the presence of veterinarians.

• Portugal: Problem areas in Portugal's law mean there isn't sufficient provision for laboratory inspections, among other shortcomings.

• Romania: Romanian law includes insufficient wording concerning the obligation to have veterinary staff on site at laboratories, and it also falls short on penalties.

• Slovakia: Slovakian law fails to fulfil important obligations regarding penalties. Another shortcoming concerns the country's law regarding the use of anaesthesia.

• Spain: Spanish authorities have previously recognised failings in their law but haven't yet addressed them! Areas of concern include record-keeping and the inclusion of safeguard clauses for the use of non-human primates, which might affect whether primates are being used for prohibited procedures.
Please send an urgent message to the relevant authorities of each country calling on them to protect animals and become global leaders in innovative science by ending all tests on animals and investing in cutting-edge, non-animal research methodologies.

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Mr  Tarmo  Tamm
Minister of Food and Veterinary Department Ministry of Rural Affairs

Ms  Julia  Klöckner
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture

Professor  Fernando  Manuel d'Almeida Bernardo
Director-General of the Portuguese National Authority for Animal Health

Mr  Klaus Johannis and  Dr. Geronimo Brănescu
Pres. of Admin. of Romania, Pres. of The National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority

Professor  Jozef  Bíreš
Director-General of State Veterinary and Food Administration of the Slovak Republic

Ms  Teresa  Ribera Rodríguez
Minister of Ecological Transition

Mr  Luis  Planas Puchades
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

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Many universities in the U.S. carry out experiments in which animals are subjected to all manner of torment. But Johns Hopkins University experimenters have outdone themselves when it comes to cruelty. Johns Hopkins Confines Owls to a Basement Laboratory: Take Action Now!

Since 2017, Johns Hopkins University experimenter Shreesh Mysore has received more than $800,000 in tax-funded grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how groups of neurons or nerve cells work together to carry out different functions—not in humans but in barn owls.
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Mysore cuts into the owls' skulls, inserts electrodes into their brains, restrains the birds in an "experimental rig," and then records their neural activity while having them watch dots on a TV monitor or exposing them to bursts of noise through earphones. For some experiments, he's restrained fully conscious owls for up to 12 hours while recording and poking at neurons in their brains. He admits in a paper that "some birds were calm when restrained, while others were not."

In another published paper, Mysore describes how he put the owls in a restraining tube so that they would be prone—an unnatural position for them—and then screwed the bolts connected to their skulls into a "stereotaxic device" so that they couldn't move their heads.

A news release from the university now claims—without evidence or rationale—that understanding neural activity in barn owls could pave the way to developing therapies for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in humans. Say what?

Looking at the neural responses of trapped barn owls—whose skulls were cut open—to dots on a screen or noises delivered through earphones offers no insight into human ADHD. Even if it did, it's too cruel to be allowed.

In addition to its transparent cruelty, the use of animals in experimentation has proved an unqualified failure. The evidence is overwhelming that data from experiments on animals can't be reliably applied to humans. NIH itself acknowledges that 95 percent of drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in humans because they don't work or are dangerous. And a review in the prestigious medical journal The BMJ reported that more than 90 percent of "the most promising findings from animal research" fail to lead to human treatments.

Yet each year, NIH directs more than $15 billion of taxpayer money to animal experiments. Johns Hopkins is at the front of the line to ride the government gravy train, securing hundreds of millions of dollars for experiments on animals annually.

Please urge NIH not to squander taxpayer dollars on Mysore's cruel and worthless experiments on owls and instead to redirect funds to modern, superior, non-animal research methods.

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Cruel and Unscientific: Government Plans to Breed More Marmosets for Experiments. More marmosets may be bred in U.S. laboratories for experiments such as implanting genetically manipulated embryos into female marmosets in order to produce babies who are born with disease-like symptoms or impairments. No animal wants to live behind the bars of a barren metal cage or any other unnatural environment while their bodies are used in pointless, painful, and invasive experiments. Read more and help out now!