Every year in the European Union more than 10 million animals suffer from experiments that can be replaced by new technologies animal free.
Furthermore, most of these tests fail to provide reliable results regarding effects on humans.
1,200,000 signatures against animal testing
The European Citizens’ Initiative (ICE) Let’s save cruelty free cosmetics has far exceeded the goal of one million signatures needed and to be validated.
It is announced by theInternational organization for the protection of animalswhich together with other associations, announced theapproval of 1 million and 200 thousand signatures throughout Europe.
In Italy, 91,992 citizens signed well exceeding the minimum required threshold of 53,580 signatures. A great success for our country, where the number of pets in homes has reached 62 million.
This European Citizens’ Initiative actively supports the European Parliament’s request for permanently ban animal testing.
The next stop
Now, with the validation of citizens’ signatures, the European Commission he can’t ignore the strong appeals to carry out scientific research without the use of animals.
The European Commission will now have to meet activists and respond to citizens’ concerns.
The words of Valentina Bagnato di Wicked International
The Head of International Relations of Wicked InternationalValentina Bagnato, has so
“We hope that the EU will now quickly put an end to the painful days of helpless animals forced to swallow cosmetic ingredients, intentionally infected with debilitating diseases or subjected to painful surgical procedures”.
And keeps going:
“European citizens, by supporting the ICE, have declared that they want a radical rethinking to support the transition in Europe”.
Among the hundreds of notables who had supported the campaign were Italian singer Red Canzian, Paul McCartney, Ricky Gervais, Finnish heavy metal band Lordi, French journalist Hugo Clément and Irish actress Evanna Lynch.
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