Dogs are being sold by breeders to animal testing labs after the French government put in place a plan that allowed them to sell “excess stock” during the COVID-19 crisis.
That’s the message from Muriel Arnal, founding president of One Voice, who says France is the number one country in Europe that sends dogs to laboratories for experiments.
Arnal says the group started a petition objecting to the practice, and has now filed a complaint with the French high court in a bid to put a stop to the measure.
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One Voice says the measure was adopted “on the quiet during the lockdown” and allows breeders to sell “excess stock” of dogs to labs for experimental purposes.
“This is allowed under Decree number 2020-27 of 17th March 2020, which amends the regulations on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes,” One Voice said.
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“The relaxation of these criteria benefits non-specialist suppliers and will give rise to a new system of shameful abuse and, eventually, make organised massacre legal.”
One Voice said all breeds were destined for the scalpel.
“The abuse inflicted on the dogs is indescribable,” the group said.
“Medication is tested on them, they are injected with viruses, they are poisoned so that the symptoms and resultant damage can be studied, their organs are ‘examined’, they are made ill or mad in the name of science and genetic experiments are carried out on them, all in prison-like conditions.”
The organisation claims labs use “a diabolical range of methods to kill animals, inflicting unimaginable suffering on them.”
“Those dogs that do not die by violence or in protracted agony are killed in order to be sold as ‘spare parts’,” One Voice said.
“This disgusting torture must cease.”
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