Originally Posted by RainbowMuncher

Is it a proper petition or not?

Originally Posted by hobbs2004

It is a proper petition but based on flawed information.

Originally Posted by Cleo38

The proposed European Directive 2010/63/EU (new changes to proposed for animals used in scientific research) is actually tightening up current EU law which although the UK has high standards alot of EU countries only meet the bare minimum.

Are you against this when it will acually help improve the lives of many animals????? or maybe I'm missing something ........

If anyone wants to actually read this then here is the link to the proposal http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/...33:0079:EN:PDF

Originally Posted by hobbs2004

Flipping heck, how many threads are there of this?

I have posted this on the other threads now but I will post it again

am going to reply quite uncharacteristically for me with: What a load of tosh.

It is quite clear to me that instead of reading the actual directive (or even just searching for the word domestic within it if you cannot be bothered to read the whole, exceedingly dry document), you have taken the DM and the Sunday Express as your sources of information. Never a good thing to do imo without double-checking the original document.

The directive makes reference to "domestic" about 4 or 5 times; always in relation to feral or abandoned animals of domestic species. However, they are named to make clear that these are not going to be experimented on unless there is clear medical need to use this population (transmitted diseases from the feral population).

Overall, the way I read this is that this is a TIGHTENING of regulations that PROTECT animals more so than it has before for countries that have so far only signed up to the most minimal of protection. Any regulations that a country already has that are even tighter than what is included in the doc here will remain in place.

Perhaps, it would be prudent to also post this:

EUROPA - Press Releases - Questions and answers on the new directive for the protection of animals used for scientific purposes

and the tabloid story debunker site:

Tabloid Watch: The EU doesn't really want your 'pets' for drug testing