According to Ecorazzi, Jane Goodall has presented a petition to the European Union asking to stop animal testing in Europe. This would save 12 million animals every year.
I think this is very interesting — when I read the latest figures on the number of animals used in animal testing in Europe each year, I was really surprised to learn that many of them are chimpanzees, apes, monkeys, etc., (0.1% of 12.1 million animals used in animal testing — that is 12,100 primates horribly tortured every year), so it makes sense that Jane Goodall would be active against animal testing. (Though luckily the EU is planning to stop using primates as test subjects in the near future — so Jane Goodall must be doing this out of her compassion for nonprimates!)
Unfortunately I doubt this petition will have much of an effect — animal testing is incredibly difficult to even get people to understand how awful (warning: disturbing pictures on that site) and needless it is. I’m not saying that animal testing could be eradicated completely — but that number of hurt animals could be seriously reduced.
I can only hope Ms. Goodall presents this petition to the U.S. sometime!
Here is the text from Ecorazzi — you can read the original here:
Jane Goodall is one pretty remarkable woman. A UN Messenger of Peace, primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, Jane is famous for her 45-year study of the chimpanzee and for founding the Jane Goodall Institute. Well it looks like Jane is back in the news and once again standing up for the rights and fair treatment of animals.
Goodall, along with a group of world renown scientists, presented a petition with 150,000 names asking the European Union to put an end to the nearly 12 million animals that are used each year for animal testing. And that’s just in the European Union. Around the world it’s estimated that 115 million animals are exploited each year for medical testing, and guess who’s the ”single largest user?” Yep, it’s us — your friendly neighbors here in the United States.
Jane said: ”We need to recognize at the outset that what we do to animals from their perspective certainly, and probably from ours, is morally wrong and unacceptable.” In reference to alternative technologies for medical research, she asked, “Where is the big encouragement, where is the political will, where is the funding for this kind of research and where are the prizes?” Goodall asked. “Why is animal-alternative work never recognized in the Nobel Prize for medicine, for example?”
To learn more about how YOU can help stop animal testing, visit stopanimaltests.com and let’s put an end to all this ridiculousness. Come on ya’ll…it’s 2008!
via: canadianpress.com
It’s so great Jane is speaking out about animal testing.
I doubt the petition will have much effect too. I have signed tons of petitions and there’s always just a small amountof people that sign them. People are complete idiots when it comes to animals rights. They like to turn a blind eye and pretend animals feel no pain. It’s disgusting.
Comment by Natasha — June 14, 2008 @ 3:46 am
I feel your pain! I’ve signed many, many petitions as well that don’t seem to have accomplished much.
Comment by Emily — June 15, 2008 @ 5:25 pm