PETA Netherlands Paves the Way to Animal-Free Research and Testing
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- 13 Jul 2022
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The Dutch Parliament has declared its support for ending animal testing in the Netherlands! It took meetings, a survey of the public, petitions signed by supporters of PETA entities, an open letter signed by 25 Dutch scientists, and proposed motions, but PETA entities have successfully persuaded the Dutch House of Representatives to accept a series of motions to reduce laboratory testing on animals.
Animals used in experiments can be isolated in cages, traumatised, and subjected to horrific pain. Instead of treating them like intelligent, sensitive beings with emotions and a will to live, experimenters poison, maim, blind, drug, burn, and kill animals for tests whose results are often useless when applied to humans.
The Dutch Parliament accepted eight motions that will push the country to take steps to reduce the number of animal experiments. The motions urge the government to do the following:
- Create an action plan to accelerate the transition to animal-free innovation to contribute to better research, better medicines, and a significant reduction in the number of animals used in experiments
- Stimulate the further development of artificial intelligence to help discover non-animal methods quickly and efficiently and thus ensure compliance with the law and reduce the number of animal experiments
- Set a timetable for ending the use of animals for safety testing and inform the House about this as soon as possible
- Develop an action plan to achieve a rapid reduction in the number of animals who are killed without having been used for breeding or experiments
- Prioritise Dutch funding initiatives for animal-free innovation that contribute to an immediate decrease in animal testing
- Map out which areas of animal testing have little to no predictive value and investigate how to phase out these tests
- Incorporate the so-called OMA model – central to which is the research question and most successful method of addressing it, not the animal test – in the Transition Programme for Innovation without the use of animals
- Resolve the bottlenecks, where possible, on the route from the laboratory to practice, and report on this annually to the House. Read More...
