Links to write the USDA and FDA about cruelty to animals

[joelbct]

So maybe someone is not on Peta's list, well here is the link to email the FDA's Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach on cruel primate testing (I would write your own letter in the form- http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/p2save99?c=p2m18

 

And here is the FDA Federal Docket comments website, where you can comment on regulations that might effect animals.

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/comments/commentdocket.cfm?AGENCY=FDA

The USDA Food Safety and Inspection dept. has one to- http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Regulations_&_Policies/index.asp

 

All citizen comments on regulations and laws must be published, you can read the comments too if you search the site, they are usually from agriculture or drug companies, and now and then consumers, and sometimes animal rights suppporters. And you can find out some creepy information in the dockets that the news does not mention, like that the US is allowing frozen poultry to be imported from CHINA now, of all places, in the midst of the avian flu scare. I sent them a comment that the US must first ensure humane handling and slaughter in the Chinese plants (as if that is possible anyway). Of course, writing to your US Representatives and Senators is most important as well, because they legislate laws-

 

-JB

[joelbct]

PS, here is my message-

 

Dr. von Eschenbach,

 

Surely the US would do well to follow the European Union and limit cruel testing on primates and other animals that are fully able to suffer and feel pain. It is deplorable that a stronger species should feel justified to enslave and abuse the feeble creatures who happen to live on the same planet.

 

There is no excuse for the abuses and torture that research companies perpetrate in the US, when perfectly viable alternatives exist. And where those alternatives do not exist, we must search them out.

 

The 1986 EU Council Directive on Animals Used for Research states:

 

"2. An experiment shall not be performed if another scientifically satisfactory method of obtaining the result sought, not entailing the use of an animal, is reasonably and practicably available.

3.... In a choice between experiments, those which use the minimum number of animals, involve animals with the lowest degree of neurophysiological sensitivity, cause the least pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm and which are most likely to provide satisfactory results shall be selected...

4. All experiments shall be designed to avoid distress and unnecessary pain and suffering to the experimental animals."

 

Please help the US follow those directives and vastly reduce or eliminate animal testing.

 

Sincerely,

Joel M. Berry

New Haven, CT

[email protected]