Animal experimentation represents a market worth billions of Euro. Our donations and taxes, among other elements, fund this lucrative trade. Only the political will to develop and apply alternative methods will enable France not just to be a forerunner in terms of ethics but also to keep the country in the front line of scientific progress.
Animal experiments are a major economic factor for animal suppliers, transporters, equipment manufacturers, food producers, laboratories and, indirectly, manufacturers and distributors of medicines and medical products that contain substances tested in this . In countries with strict regulation of animal experiments such as India, laboratory lobbies are putting pressure on governments to relax rules, faced with the risk of “not being able to develop the medications that foreign countries will come and sell to them at a price they will already have set".
Funded by our donations…
This practice, which is now obsolete, is funded, for public research, by our taxes and in private research very often by donations. This is despite the fact that nearly three quarters of people in France say that they are opposed to animal experiments when other methods are possible (Ipsos/One Voice study). Cell, tissue and organ cultures, molecular biology, in vitro research – there are many recognised substitute methods with proven effectiveness today.
… which could be funding scientific progres
Can we continue to fund research uses practices from another era, often guided by pure economic interest, without threatening the future of a so-called modern society? Investing in the development of substitute methods, even using the same budgets allocated to animal experiments, would undeniably enable us to move science forward for the long term. These methods would also benefit the activities of laboratories and other product or medication manufacturers. The presence on the market of more and more articles that are certified "not tested on animals”, whether beauty products, cleaning products or animal food bears witness to this.
A worthy human society
Only the acknowledgement of animal experiments as a subject that affects us all the development of funding for substitute tests will enable a “modern” society to live in keeping with its times. Saving lives, protecting human health and the environment will enable each of us to be able to consume in complete safety and confidence… these are the principles that should guide any human society worthy of the name. These are the principles that One Voice is defending in its non-violent campaign against animal experiments.
Saving lives, protecting human health and the environment will enable each of us to be able to consume in complete safety and confidence… these are the principles that should guide any human society worthy of the name. These are the principles that One Voice is defending in its non-violent campaign against animal experiments.
