tailieunhanh - In Defense of Animals Part 5

RSPCA cho rằng các tiêu chuẩn tối thiểu đã được nêu trong cả Vương quốc Anh và luật pháp châu Âu không đủ để đáp ứng những gì bây giờ được gọi về nhu cầu tâm lý, xã hội và hành vi của động vật. | Speciesism in the Laboratory Animals require a varied and stimulating environment with plenty of space and opportunities for social interaction. The RSPCA considers that the minimum standards laid down in both UK and European legislation are inadequate to satisfy what is now known about animals psychological social and behavioral needs. The RSPCA is also opposed to the import and export of laboratory animals because of the additional distress this causes has many concerns about conditions for primates in overseas breeding centres and does not believe that the search for alternatives the cost benefit procedure the focus upon welfare and the relief of pain and distress all emphasized by the Act are being given sufficient emphasis in practice. Nor is the Act operated with any real transparency. Huge sums of taxpayers money continue to be spent on animal research without the concerned taxpayer gaining real access. Unnecessary testing is rarely questioned by the government and no effort is made to explain to the public exactly what is being done to the animals in their name and allegedly for the public benefit. Like all legislation this law needs to be intelligently and competently enforced. In 1994 accredited training courses for license holders were made compulsory in Britain and in the following year a British ban was proposed on the use of great apes in laboratories and a near ban on the use of any wild-caught primates. In 1997 and 1998 at long last there were bans on the use of animals to test cosmetics cosmetic ingredients tobacco alcohol and offensive weapons. The Use of Great Apes The UK since 1997 New Zealand since 1999 and Sweden since 2003 now exclude the use of great apes for research and testing purposes. Although the Netherlands still has six chimpanzees on a hepatitis project they will be the last as the country has recently announced its intention not to allow further use. In Japan academics have halted invasive chimpanzee research and are pressing for a