Saturday, 24 April 2010 13:43

To mark the International Day of Laboratory Animal, "a performance with a woman engaged in a blood-red tub surrounded by props rabbits yesterday sought to raise awareness among locals who passed through the corner of Avenida Roque Saenz Peña regarding more than 100 million animals die each year in the world used in the testing of cosmetics and toiletries.

United Nations declared April 24, International Day of Laboratory Animal, date of birth of Lord Lodwing, who was chairman of a 1875 English fight against animal testing.

"About 100 million animals are still under experimentation by the majority of cosmetic and toiletries companies, although these methods were discarded by the world's most prestigious universities," said Andrea Plaquin spokeswoman AnimaNaturalis in Argentina, the NGO that organized the protest singular at the corner of Buenos Aires.


The international organization, which has subsidiaries in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico and Venezuela, is mobilized behind an idea: "How many animals die after a few good lashes or hair shiny and full of life ?. "

"In the laboratory the animal may be trapped, deprived of food, water or sleep, poisoned, ill, surgically maimed, subjected to invasive procedures such as applying skin and eye irritant, subject to psychological stress, irradiated, burned, gassed, among other things "give yourself AnimaNaturalis said and added that" it is important to note that all these procedures are performed without any anesthetic or analgesic to not interfere with the results of the experiments. As a result they died or were killed deliberately for a post-mortem examination. "

So primates, guinea pigs, mice, rats, dogs, rabbits, cats, pigs and other species are slaughtered in the name of science and technology at the rate of three animals die in laboratories each second worldwide.
From the NGOs promote ethical consumption of people spreading brands with cruelty free products, governments to change animal protection laws by abolition of its use for testing and companies to seek alternatives to test cruelty free their products, to read more information about visit animanaturalis.org


"Animals are equal to human beings and deserve respect for their life, liberty and should not in any circumstances be considered a property" concluded Eduardo Lopez, director of AnimaNaturalis in Argentina.