POSTERACTIE IN BERLIJN

Waarom niet in Nederland? 

https://www.aerzte-gegen-tierversuche.de/de/neuigkeiten/3285-schluss-mit-tierversuchen-weil-forschung-es-kann

PUPPERS ACT

A Florida congressman’s efforts to prevent the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from experimenting on animals continue as he paired with a congresswoman from Nevada on a new bill.

At the start of 2019, U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., who sits on the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee and lost both his legs during his service in Afghanistan, teamed up with U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., to unveil the “Preventing Unkind and Painful Procedures and Experiments on Respected Species (PUPPERS) Act”  which “will put an end to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ practice of performing painful and distressing experiments on dogs, including drilling into dogs’ skulls, inducing heart attacks, and collapsing their lungs.” 

The proposal was rolled into federal appropriations bills passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump at the end of last year which included efforts to “eliminate or reduce the research conducted using canines, felines, or non-human primates by not later than five years after the date of the enactment of this act.”

Mast’s and Titus’ proposal prohibited the VA from purchasing, breeding, transporting, housing, feeding, maintaining, disposing of or experimenting on dogs as part of the conduct of any study that causes significant pain or distress.”

Mast and Titus reeled in the support of a number of different groups including AMVETS, American Military Retirees Association, DisabledVeterans.org, American Humane Society and the White Coat Waste Project. 

https://www.floridadaily.com/brian-mast-dina-titus-team-up-to-end-va-experiments-on-cats/

UNIVERSITEIT WENEN

 Universiteit laat muizen verhongeren.

https://vgt.at/presse/news/2020/news20201215mn.php

ORGANOÏDEN

Een beperking van organoïden is dat het geïsoleerde systeempjes zijn, terwijl echte organen op allerlei manieren beïnvloed worden door processen in de rest van het lichaam.

“Dat is nou echt zo’n tegenargument van de proefdierlobby”, schampert Pajkrt. “Ik zeg dan altijd: Wacht maar af! We zijn nog maar net begonnen.”

Wolthers valt haar bij en wijst erop dat het met elkaar in contact brengen van diverse organoïden (bijvoorbeeld een mini-darm en een mini-brein) op dit moment een belangrijk onderzoeksthema is. Zo kan in de toekomst ook de wisselwerking tussen diverse organen worden bestudeerd.

https://www.animalstoday.nl/proefdiervrij-onderzoek-europese-impuls/     

MODERNA EN PFIZER: nieuwe vaccinontwikkeling

“In the US, a major roadblock to medical innovation is FDA red tape that forces pharmaceutical companies to waste years of time and millions of dollars on painful, misleading and outdated drug tests,” says Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy at tax payer watchdog group, White Coat Waste Project, “and doesn’t allow them to use more modern and efficient research tools.”

Goodman adds, “these burdensome government-mandated tests on dogs and other animals fail to predict human drug outcomes 95 percent of the time, causing promising drugs to be abandoned, and dangerous ones to reach patients.”

The two leaders in developing vaccines for Covid-19, Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna, adopted an entirely new approach:

 -  > not testing on animals first, but rather running human and animal trials concurrently.

“So we can stop doing things the traditional way and we did it when we were FORCED into it.” <  (door de pandemie)

“The COVID-19 crisis has certainly exposed cracks in the foundation of the current regulatory regime, particularly how mandating slow, expensive and inaccurate animal tests before new drugs can even enter human trials is wasteful and counterproductive,” adds Goodman.

 “Moderna and Pfizer both quickly got safe and 95% effective coronavirus vaccines into human trials without first completing tests on dogs, monkeys or other animals.”

https://www.planetfriendlynews.com/.../animal-testing...

Macaques at a breeding facility await being shipped to research laboratories

GENEESKUNDE

 'What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried.'  

Nassim Nicholas Taleb