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Our companion’s dogs and cats tortured in laboratories!

Our companion’s dogs and cats tortured in laboratories!

Mis à jour le 03 July 2018

Animal experimentation kills dogs and cats for meaningless tests, denounces Dr. Ménache, consultant veterinarian for One Voice. Proof, aberrant experiments, on the verge of scientific fraud according to this expert.

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Along with the outrageous practices of the auto industry, which gases primates with exhaust fumes, have just been revealed to endorse the safety of engines. Our dog and cat companions are also suffering the worst. Dr. Ménache, consultant veterinarian for One Voice analysed several experiments and explained how they make no sense at all.

Remember that the French and European regulations on animal testing encourage the reduction of the number of victims, as well as the pain inflicted on animals. But these figures are globally increasing, while the search for alternative methods without cruelty are stalling.

According to the last official statistics, at least 3,500 cats and dogs die each year in French laboratories. In principle, none of our companions, whose place is in loving homes, should be sacrificed for any scientific projects, whatever they might be. These points explained by Dr. Menache show that this practice is complete and utter nonsense...

Enough of these outrageous experiments!

"What does a dog's heart look like? ", was the subject of study published in 2017. Issued from the Mutualiste Institute Montsouris (Paris) and the breeding centre of the Souches (Mézilles), 15 beagles in good health were thus euthanized in order to describe a detail of the anatomy of this organ, yet already well known. Why in this case kill healthy animals and not use the hearts of animals that have already died?

Any research project using animals must, in particular, justify to an ethics committee the suffering to which they will be exposed. But Dr. Ménache notes that a study that does not provide any resuscitation (here because of the removal of vital organ) is virtually exempt from ethical review! Finally, for science, suppressing the life of an animal would be less important than exposing it to even slight suffering. Where is the ethics in all this?

By nature, intolerable, the torture of our companion’s cats and dogs in the laboratories must stop. At last, let's respect these sentient beings!

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tao | Tuesday 13 March 2018

c'est quoi ces tortures on vit dans un monde de fous

lane59 | Tuesday 13 March 2018

Ignoble pour rester polie j'ai partagé l'article

keria | Monday 12 March 2018

Cruauté et absurdité = aberration, honte
Notre gouvernement fait preuve d'un laxisme et d'une surdité sur cette question qui sont affligeants. Quand on sait que l'expérimentation animale dure depuis près de 200 ans, qu'elle fait chaque année des millions de victimes dans le monde, que les méthodes sont souvent très douloureuses et que les 3/4 du temps elles ne servent pas la connaissance utile, on se dit quelle honte pour l'humanité et quelle aberration du système ! Des assos lèvent désormais la voix pour dénoncer les traitements et réclamer un changement. On a su faire les lois qui autorisent, on peut donc faire celles qui interdisent ; on a su ouvrir les centres pour faire ce type de recherche, on doit aussi savoir les fermer. Au fond, gros problème de volonté au sein de la communauté scientifique où il y en a trop encore qui pratiquent malgré la désapprobation grandissante et surtout, parmi nos politiques qui ne comprennent toujours pas l'intérêt du sort des animaux, refusent de voir et d'agir en accord avec la gravité du problème.

leslie | Saturday 10 March 2018

oh oui quel dégout ce gouvernement qui encourage la souffrance animale pour de l'argent. Nous souhaiterions tant d'évolution à ce sujet. les animaux ne méritent pas d'etre ainsi traités et si peu considérés. Comment arriver à vivre avec la responsabilité de tant de souffrance...