Green Party in Northern Ireland urged publicly-funded universities and medical schools in Northern Ireland to halt testing animals – especially when only 3% of experiments carried on them have been really required by regulators. As Cruelty Free International investigated – approximately 20 000 animal experiments have dubious scientific values for humans. Additionally, the number of laboratory tests on dogs was dramatically increased by up 113%. Moreover, Steven Agnew from Green Party in Northern Ireland urged the universities to invest in alternative testing instead of animal one. The official statement of the spokesperson of Queen’s University was “Queen’s conduct research on animals only when it is absolutely essential for clinical, biomedical and environmental studies and where there are no alternatives”. Unfortunately, a dilemma of suffering animals is still remaining unsolved. However, the European Citizen Initiative (ECI) unveiled a negative sentiment of Europeans regarding animal testing. The ECI clearly stated that Europeans want policy makers to phase out animal testing. In Northern Ireland in 2014 and 2015 about 1 000 animals are intentionally subjected to experiments estimated as causing severe suffering and next 5 513 animals to moderate suffering.
Horses at the Fiesta del Rocío in Andalusia
18 June 2013
E-007100-13
Raül Romeva i Rueda (Verts/ALE)
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Foie gras – animal welfare framework
Castration of piglets without anaesthesia in EU Member States
E-003812/2013
8 April 2013
Ismail Ertug (S&D)
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No more testing of cosmetics on animals after 11 March 2013
P-003223/2013
21 March 2013
Tiziano Motti (PPE)
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Use of live animals for testing in the EU during the period 2009-2012
E-001757/2013
20 February 2013
Ana Miranda (Verts/ALE)
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Vivisection
Alternatives to force-feeding
E-010498/2012
16 November 2012
Sirpa Pietikäinen (PPE)