Animal experimentation. Lav a Rizzo: “More checks and more spending on alternative research”

But another thing is to confuse the ongoing battle in the conversion of the “Milleproroghe” Law Decree on the continuation or otherwise of animal tests of alcohol, drugs, tobacco and aimed at xenotransplantation (not the use of animal parts such as heart valves) – with the Tuesday evening’s rejection of the League’s amendments aimed at an extension sine die, in collision with the photos posted by Salvini with dogs and kittens – extension already granted in 2016 for three years and now until December 31 next, confuse all this with the abolition of all animal testing which is unfortunately not on the agenda of the Chamber of Deputies.

On the other hand, they are the same reasons that we have heard for 23 years when we asked and therefore obtained in 2013 at a continental level the stop to the animal tests of cosmetics that were considered unchangeable. Yet today creams, perfumes and aftershaves also used by those who are in favor of animal tests, are developed for due safety in use and effects, thanks to the substitute research methods. As a demonstration that when you want, thanks to courageous and independent political decisions, you can change with benefits for everyone, humans and animals.

But the basic question, with Italy continuing to spend more than one billion and three hundred million euros a year in direct activities related to animal tests, to kill 600 thousand animals a year, with more than a third of the tests carried out with effects classified as “serious” by the experimenters themselves (other than an obligation to use anesthesia, an obligation that is not such according to the Law) and insufficient or rose water controls (as evidenced by the recent report of the Brussels Commission of the February 5 and the order of January 23 of the Council of State that suspended the experimentation on macaques at the University of Parma) remains the defense of the real dictatorship of the “unique system” of experimentation, of those who can only do this and wants to continue imposing it. Quite the opposite of the vaunted “freedom of research”, where even the Italian universities that have opened experimentation laboratories with other methods, are derided, because it is independent research.

Gianluca Felicetti
LAV President

THE REPLICA OF SERGIO RIZZO

Dear Felicetti, no derision. Only the acknowledgment that our policy is unable to seriously deal with such a serious matter, taking refuge in the trite mechanism of infinite extension. As for the merit, I believe that such delicate issues should always be addressed with the utmost secularism: something that unfortunately almost never happens, as evidenced by the story told and the consequent reactions. I don’t make it too long, but personally I trust the scientists immensely more than those who do not hesitate to declare war on science for ideology or false beliefs.
Sergio Rizzo

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