Urge the EU to embrace science without suffering!

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Urge the EU to embrace science without suffering!

We all want safe products, a toxic-free environment and for research to deliver cures for cancer and other serious diseases. But the only way we’re going to get there is if governments stop pouring public funds into unreliable research using mice, monkeys and other animals, and stop forcing companies to test on animals when more reliable non-animal technologies are available.

The European Parliament has called for an EU-wide action plan for phasing out animal-based testing and research. We have a limited time to convince the European Commission to produce a strong and ambitious plan to turn political promises into meaningful change for animals.

Urge for cruelty-free science in the European Union!

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Dear President von der Leyen and Commissioners,

The time has come for the EU to elevate its policy leadership in animal welfare with a concrete and ambitious plan to phase-out animal use in research, regulatory testing and education, as requested by an overwhelming majority of Members of the European Parliament.

The Commission has acknowledged the failure of animal models in many areas of human disease research and the need to develop new, improved models based on the growing toolbox of more human-predictive non-animal technologies. This shift in strategy requires a parallel shift in funding, and I urge you to commit to a phased redirect of EU health research funding to fully divest from animal-based science by 2050.

The Commission must also provide policy leadership in shifting the regulatory paradigm from tick-box animal testing to assess hazards of chemicals, pesticides and other substances to a ‘next generation risk assessment’ approach that integrates data from state-of-the-art non-animal technologies with real-world human and environmental use and exposure information.

It is heartbreaking to see over 90% of potential new medicines abandoned because animal testing fails, time and again, to predict drug safety and efficacy for people, and frustrating that, due to an outdated, inefficient and ineffective approach, we are left in the dark about thousands of chemicals we are exposed to daily. The Commission must embrace human biology as the new gold standard, and modern technology for testing and research, because moving beyond an obsolete and failing animal model paradigm is in all our interests.

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