Deep-rooted public opinion in favour of ethical science
Three quarters of French people are against animal testing (IPSOS/One Voice survey, April 2023). This figure rose to 85% regarding tests carried out on dogs. However, our country is home to Yonne and Allier, two industrial breeding farms for thousands of beagles and golden retrievers - animals that are particularly gentle and friendly - destined exclusively to suffer then die in conditions that we would not even wish on our worst enemy. The One Voice team obtained, in 2019 and 2021 respectively, a cancellation for their expansion.
The requirement for transparency leads by example, with the public’s support
One Voice, cutting edge on the subject of animal testing in France since the end of the 1990s, has also made a site analysing the official data available and invites the public to sign their petition that is in particular in favour of closing these two dog breeding farms. The association is asking that these experiments causing ‘severe’ suffering for dogs stop, but also for the development of replacement methods (meaning without animals), and brings other key measures such as obtaining true transparency, because this environment has a rare lack of transparency, and State services are more than unwilling to hand over inspection reports that are public.
Constant work alongside our partners in Europe, because mass-production and legislation goes beyond French borders
By supporting the European Citizens’ Initiative against testing cosmetics on animals, One Voice has managed to get the European Commission to commit for a progressive decree on animal testing. Even more recently, the association took over a collective campaign showing the conditions of international transfers of dogs in the hold of an aeroplane via Denmark — conditions that they had already reported on in the past.
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