June 11th 2008
Jane Goodall Asks European Union To Ban Animal Testing
Filed under: animals, campaigns, events, green and famous — parrish @ 1:11 pm
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
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