Animal experimentation

Soutien Younous One Voice appelle à soutenir l'initiative de plusieurs eurodéputés, dont Younous Omarjee, pour des alternatives à l'expérimentation. Succès ! Adopté par la Commission européenne, le projet pilote financera sur deux ans des actions concrètes de formation et information.

Décision CJUE One Voice et sa Coalition européenne pour mettre fin à l'expérimentation animale (ECEAE) se félicitent du rejet par la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne (CJUE) des doléances de l'industrie cosmétique, souhaitant commercialiser en Europe des produits ou ingrédients testés sur des animaux ailleurs dans le monde.

Sondage Ipsos Les Français ne veulent plus de l'expérimentation animale : ils sont, selon un sondage One Voice/Ipsos, 8 sur 10 contre les expériences sur chats, chiens et primates et à souhaiter une autorité de contrôle transparente comme le financement public de méthodes de recherche alternatives.

AnimalPolitique Présentation aux médias, puis colloque à l'Assemblée nationale, du collectif Animal Politique, plate-forme revendicative formée d'une trentaine d'association, dont One Voice. Interpellant les futurs élus aux élections présidentielles et législatives, One Voice, référent sur le volet Expérimentation animale, en appelle à un véritable plan national de remplacement.

With its partners from the European coalition, One Voice launches the Animal Petition.

France celebrates the World Week for Animals in Laboratories, with a new recipe offered by Aroma-Zone!

One Voice and Doctors Against Animal Experiments, its German partner in ECEAE, have launched a campaign to put pressure on Eisai to stop botulinic toxin tests on mice.

One Voice have certified dietary supplements for the first time.

Launch of a campaign against testing household products on rodents and rabbits, which continues despite the existence of alternative methods. Corrosive products are applied to their raw skin, dripped in their eyes or injected, causing unspeakable pain.

Launch of the campaign « Through Their Eyes » which revealed the reality of experiments from the point of view of their animal victims.

81,774 signatures demanding the freeing of French macaques presented to the Max Planck Institute.

Publication of a report on places conducting animal experiments in France.

Launch of the campaign for the liberation of Léa and her companions, macaques born in France and sent to the Max Planck Institute in Germany for brain experiments.

Following 17 years of hard-fought campaigns, the import and sale of cosmetics tested on animals, or containing ingredients tested on animals, was banned throughout the EU. This was a tremendous victory for One Voice and its ECEAE partners.

An investigation and two reports exposed absurd animal experiments by a lab on rodents and rabbits, and another lab on dogs and cats. More than ever, the animal model came across as thoroughly obsolete.

Launch of the new One Voice approved label for vegan products not tested on animals (blue) and in addition organic (orange).

ECEAE toxicology experts, financed largely by One Voice, began a series of consultations with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) on the implementation of the the REACH directive on chemical testing, which continued until 2014 and saved the lives of more than 7,000 animals. This work was paid for in full by donations.

Launch of campaign for the vast numbers of mice sacrificed in labs. Even the smallest deserve respect.

Andre Menache, vet and director of Antidote Europe, compiled the One Voice report Replacement of Primates in Neurology Research, in which he showed why primates are not an effective model of humans.

One Voice organised a joint demo against primate breeding and research with GAIA (Belgium) and ECEAE (European Coalition to End Animal Experiments) in front of the European Union in Strasbourg.

One Voice investigators returned from Cambodia with shocking images of the horrors of monkey farms supplying labs, particularly in France.

Campaign to raise awareness of the fate of monkeys from Mauritius, wild caught or bred for laboratories world wide including France.

Scientists Gill and Chris Langley compiled the One Voice report Experiments on Primates in France, a critical review of the use of our cousins for research which shows why it is not relevant to humans.

One Voice mobilise le public contre le projet d'augmentation du nombre de chiens d'un laboratoire français et organise une manifestation devant la mairie de Gidy et l'unité de production.

One Voice's campaign to abolish experiments on dogs and cats gathered 347,566 signatures, presented at a meeting at the Ministry of Science in 2007.

One Voice and Antidote Europe demonstrated the effectiveness of toxicogenomics, which uses human tissue cell cultures for toxicity testing and is a hundred times faster and cheaper than animal models. (Report available on request.)

Horrifying images of suffering monkeys from a One Voice investigation at a French lab were used in a joint campaign with Antidote Europe against animal experiments.

One Voice translated and published the book The Great Ape Project by Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri.

An Ipsos poll for One Voice showed that the majority of French people were against animal experiments.

Campaign against Bioprim's French quarantine centre for monkeys destined for labs, which had opened in 2001. 8,000 signatures were delivered to the Town Hall in Baziège, near Toulouse.

Petition against breeding monkeys for labs.

One Voice signed up to the Great Ape Project, which campaigns for them to have the legal right to life, liberty and the prohibition of torture. A dossier was published on great apes and their living conditions at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands, which subsequently in 2004 gave up experimenting on great apes. The public was mobilised to get the presidential election candidates on side and obtain a Europe-wide freeze. The use of great apes in French labs would be banned in 2010 under the revised European Directive on animal experiments.

One Voice brought about the closure of a lab and freed nine beagles. Some of them had been subjected to horrific experiments and needed medical care for the rest of their lives.

Two puppies being used for lethal dose testing were saved at the point of death following a long investigation of a lab.

One Voice investigators went undercover at an independent lab that performed cosmetic and chemical tests. They filmed the nightmare conditions of rabbits, guinea pigs and hamsters as well as cats and dogs.

At Mezilles in Burgundy, One Voice uncovered France's biggest dog breeder (beagles and golden retrievers) for labs. Statements obtained from staff proved crucial in the ensuing media campaign.

Three cats were saved from a Paris hospital lab when it brought to an end four years of animal tests. Antacid medicines had been tested via a tube into the stomach.

The American company Harlan, based in the Allier region in central France, saw its operations exposed after an undercover investigation by One Voice and BUAV lasting 10 months. Four beagles destined for experiments were saved from their dog breeding centre.

One Voice (Talis) and an alliance of campaigning groups forced the American corporation Marshall Farms to cancel its plans for a breeding centre for 2,000 beagles in Montbeugny.

The building of Europe's biggest primate breeding centre at Holtzheim was halted after two years of intensive campaigning. It would have housed 3,000 primates and sent 600 or 700 annually to labs. This was a huge result for all the animal campaigning groups, coordinated by One Voice (known as Talis at that time).

One Voice launched its cruelty-free cosmetics label, together with a list of products not tested on animals, on World Day Against Procter & Gamble, who still sometimes tested on fully conscious monkeys.

One Voice completed its second legal primate liberation with the release of 18 lemurs imprisoned in a French lab to the Refuge de l'Arche sanctuary. Amongst them was one called Mulhouse, who had been sold to the lab by a zoo

Air France was no longer able to import monkeys for laboratories on the quiet thanks to the campaign Air Souffrance (Air Suffering) which exposed their complicity in animal experimentation.

Project BION, which had planned to send monkeys into space, was abandoned thanks to a joint campaign by One Voice and PETA.

The first legal animal liberation action in France was undertaken by One Voice (Aequalis) when 36 macaque monkeys were rescued from a laboratory that had committed to giving up using primates. They were rehomed in the Refuge de l'Arche sanctuary, where for the first time they enjoyed fresh air and sunshine. Despite being born in captivity, after just three weeks they began to groom one another, a natural behaviour previously denied them.

100,000 signatures collected against Premarin, a drug for treating menopause made from the urine of pregnant mares, extracted continuously via a tube in their urinary tract.Their foals were sent for slaughter when two or three months old.One Voice's (at that time known as Aequalis) campaign also resulted in the withdrawal in France of a new contraceptive pill made from mare's urine.