Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

The person responsible – David Cameron – Prime Minister and Huntsman. Picture – Telegraph.

Stop the UK Government from legalising the use of stray pets in lab experiments!
If it isn’t bad enough that many animals are already tortured in UK labs, now our stray animals in the UK are also going to be used! 
Please sign the petition below, worldwide signatures needed now please to stop this barbaric act-

“The Home Office proposes for the first time to allow stray pets to be caught and used for experiments, for “environmental” or scientific reasons. This was despite unanimous submissions by animal welfare groups supported by many research establishments that the change was both unnecessary and unwelcome. No proposals are made for ensuring that an attempt be made to rehome lost pets rather than subject them to laboratory testing”.- 
 
SIGN HERE-
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/976/371/155/stop-the-uk-government-from-legalising-the-use-of-stray-pets-in-lab-experiments/
 
Read the alarming article here from the ‘BUAV’-
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/michelle-thew/government-opens-laborato_b_1535640.html?ref=uk-politics&just_reloaded=1

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Article is as follows:  By Michelle Thew.

Chief Executive of BUAV, The Campaign to End Animal Experiments –  http://www.buav.org/

The Home Office last week released a statement on its plans to bring in a new EU law on animal experiments. The plans, such as maintaining larger minimum cage sizes than strictly necessary, have been heralded by some as good news. The overall picture is very different.

The Home Office proposes for the first time to allow stray pets to be caught and used for experiments, for “environmental” or scientific reasons. This was despite unanimous submissions by animal welfare groups supported by many research establishments that the change was both unnecessary and unwelcome. No proposals are made for ensuring that an attempt be made to rehome lost pets rather than subject them to laboratory testing.

Furthermore, by refusing to ban particular experiments, the government is content that grim procedures which would be more at home in a chamber of horrors than a civilised country may continue to be allowed.

For example, the new EU law specifically contemplates that animals in laboratories can be given electric shocks they cannot escape from, to induce “learned helplessness”. Highly social animals such as dogs and primates can be locked in “complete isolation for prolonged periods”. Organ transplantation where organ rejection is “likely to lead to severe distress or impairment of the general condition of the animals” is allowed, as are all manner of poisoning tests and surgery leading to severe pain or distress and “forced swim or exercise tests with exhaustion …”. The consultation heard not only from animal protection groups but also researchers that there should be a list of experiments that would never be sanctioned, but the Government has refused to rule anything out. Thousands of animal experiments for trivial purposes will continue.

To top it all off, a review of secrecy in animal research begun in 2004 has been further extended, leaving animal experiments hidden from public scrutiny, despite the government’s admission that current law is insufficient in terms of EU transparency.

As taxpayers, we have a right to know what goes on, in our names, behind the closed doors of our laboratories – with due regard being paid, naturally, to personal and confidential information. As things stand, we risk lagging behind other European countries in maintaining our obsessive secrecy. Most respondents – including the animal research industry – favoured amending or repealing the clause that allows researchers to hide information about animal experiments from Freedom of Information requests. The government claims to have been reviewing this clause for the last eight years but still refuses to come to a decision. What does it have to hide?

The European public has made it overwhelmingly clear, in a YouGov poll in 2009, that it wants to see far greater openness and bans on all experiments causing severe suffering and any suffering for primates, dogs and cats. Even those respondents who will tolerate some animal testing want experiments which are not for serious medical conditions banned. Once again, the Government is intent on disregarding public opinion. But at this late hour it is not too late for the Government to bring the animal research industry into line with public opinion. If you think it is wrong to electrocute and poison animals, which could now include lost pets, please write to your MP.

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What YOU can do to be a voice for these stray animals destined to be tortured in UK experimental labs-
 
1- Please write to your MP to protest, asking them to do everything within their power to stop this, please see link here to find your MP- http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/

Alternatively the link below also gives all politicians in the UK but if you use this site to write to your MP etc. – it spams out copied and pasted text and standard pre written letters, so best to just use the site just to find the name of your MP if you don’t know it and then google search their contact details and then write  to them direct!
– http://www.writetothem.com/

2-Write to your MEP to protest (Member of European Parliament) please see link here to find your MEP- http://www.europarl.org.uk/view/en/your_MEPs/List-MEPs-by-region.html;jsessionid=62CD12DB77A30A8FDAB8C3CD62E808E5
 
3- write to UK Prime Minister David Cameron here to voice your disgust and tell him to stop these barbaric proposals- CameronD@parliament.uk
 
or you can use the No.10 Downing Street online form to make your complaint- https://email.number10.gov.uk/

PLEASE NOTE-once into the link above to contact number 10 please choose the subject ‘contact the Prime Minister’s office’. 
4- Write to the letters to the editor page of your local paper to expose this to the general public to gain more support for the campaign to stop this cruelty, most  people in the UK will be horrified to learn of these new proposals. You can google search contact details for your local paper.
5- If you are an animal campaign group in the UK please highlight this campaign to your own supporters and contact your own personal journalist contacts that you deal with to gain more publicity and public support against this new proposal.
6-Write to the RSPCA to get them to try and stop this immediately- Enqserv@rspca.org.uk

PLEASE REMEMBER TO KEEP ALL CORRESPONDENCE POLITE

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PETITION

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/991/002/034/free-capatain-paul-watson/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18055030

Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson ‘arrested in Germany’

According to Sea Shepherd, Watson’s arrest relates to an incident dating back to 2002

The founder of US-based anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson, has been arrested in Germany, the group says.

In a statement, it said Mr Watson was detained in Frankfurt and now faces extradition to Costa Rica.

It quotes German police as saying the arrest relates to a confrontation over shark finning in 2002.

Sea Shepherd is a controversial direct action group best known for disrupting Japan’s annual whale hunt.

In the past there have been collisions between its vessels and the whaling fleet, and its activists have also boarded Japanese vessels.

Mr Watson tweeted late on Sunday: “I am currently being held in Frankfurt on charges from Costa Rica. Court appearance in the morning.”

Attempted murder claim

The German warrant related to an “alleged violation of ships traffic” which took place in Guatemalan waters in 2002, the group said, when it “encountered an illegal shark finning operation” – referring to the practice of catching sharks, slicing off their valuable fins and returning the shark to the water where it will usually die.

On order of the Guatemalan authorities, the group says, it instructed the crew of the Costa Rican vessel in question, the Varadero, to head back to port to be prosecuted.

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Our hope is that these two honourable gentlemen can set Captain Watson free before this nonsense goes any further”

Sea Shepherd

Profile: Sea Shepherd Cpt Watson
“While escorting the Varadero back to port, the tables were turned and a Guatemalan gunboat was dispatched to intercept the Sea Shepherd crew,” the statement claims.

“The crew of the Varadero accused the Sea Shepherd of trying to kill them, while the video evidence proves this to be a fallacy.

“To avoid the Guatemalan gunboat, Sea Shepherd then set sail for Costa Rica, where they uncovered even more illegal shark finning activities in the form of dried shark fins by the thousands on the roofs of industrial buildings.”

Media cite Costa Rican reports as saying Mr Watson also faces an outstanding warrant for attempted murder stemming from the same incident.

According to Sea Shepherd, Mr Watson is being assisted in jail by European deputies Daniel Cohn Bendit and Jose Bove.

“Our hope is that these two honourable gentlemen can set Captain Watson free before this nonsense goes any further,” Sea Shepherd says.

Please contact: (Please be respectful in your communications)

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Federal Minister of Justice
Deutscher Bundestag
Platz der Republik
11011 Berlin

Telephone 030 – 227 751 62
Fax 030 – 227 764 02
E-Mail: sabine.leutheusser-schnarrenberger@bundestag.de

Federal Ministry of Justice
Mohrenstrasse 37
10117 Berlin, Germany

Telephone: +49 (030) 18 580-0
Telefax: +49 (030) 18 580-9525

Dr. Guido Westerwelle
Minister of Foreign Affairs
FDP-Bundestagsfraktion
Platz der Republik 1
11011 Berlin

Tel.: 030 / 22771636
Fax: 030 / 22776562
E-Mail: guido.westerwelle@bundestag.de

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Sample Letter:

Dear Ms Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger,

I was very concerned to hear that Germany has detained Sea Shepherd’s Captain Paul Watson for possible extradition to Costa Rica.  I understand that the warrant for Captain Watson’s arrest is politically motivated and possibly due to an incident in which Sea Shepherd uncovered an illegal shark finning operation.

I support Sea Shepherd’s efforts to monitor and publicise illegal fishing and whaling around the world and recognize that some illegal fishing operations try to use international law to shut down the Sea Shepherd operations.  I urge you to consider the valuable work Captain Watson and Sea Shepherd are undertaking globally to highlight the dangers to our oceans in considering this extradition request.

Sincerely,

Your Name.

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