World Laboratory Animal Day (April 24th) saw the launch of an ambitious new coalition in partnership to end the suffering of more than 11 million animals still used for experiments across Europe.
The Cruelty Free Europe Group, a dynamic Brussels-based network of partners, which ensures a permanent presence at the heart of the European decision-making process, will work to get the EU to commit to a global timetable. The goal is to modernize research and testing and to renounce animal experimentation, which is outdated, useless and cruel.
Cruelty Free Europe also urgently needs to intervene to ensure that bans on cosmetics testing on animals in the EU is respected and to stop the growth of chemical testing in the cosmetics sector. As a first step, the organization will contact the candidates during the European elections in May to ask them to commit themselves to animals in the laboratories.
As founder Katy Taylor says: