Irish Daily Mirror Expose Animal Experiments in Ireland, Again!

Dear ARAN Members,

Please see below an almost half page 'Exclusive' by the Irish Daily Mirror into animal experiments at the University College Dublin which has been outed for spending €240,000 on animal experiments including mice, rats and frogs. Dogs are also used in Irish experiments which most people would not be aware of. In the article, ARAN called on universities across Ireland to abandon their outdate use of animals in experiments and called for more modern, sophisticated and reliable research that does not involve any animals.

However, we have cause for serious concern. Behind the scenes ARAN are working on gathering more information about big plans for animal experiments in Ireland, along with a facility specifically set up to coordinate animal tests on a big scale not yet seeing in this country, we will be releasing details in the near future. 

Keep up the good work of fighting bad, with good. Together we are making a difference, but can only be as effective as the help and support you give.

ARAN

'Fighting animal abuse across Ireland'

P.S. Can you help? ARAN is looking for a volunteer who has experience at designing websites, if that's you, then we want to hear from you! Get in contact today.

My thoughts about you taking our Babyboy Bassethound.

Animal Control in Columbus GA is COMPLETELY full and killing animals

Dear Members,

We can't believe the subject line heading either. We've just learned that RISE! - the pro-hunt campaign group here in Ireland has been shortlisted to receive an award from the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) for their 'successful campaign' during 2010 with the Ward Union hunt legislation fight - which has since been banned! ARAN has contacted the PRII to advise that the RISE! Campaign was far from successful as the cruel stag hunt was banned on grounds of animal welfare and if anything the RISE campaign consisted mainly of lies and playing with facts and figures whilst been heavily funded from developers and wealthy business people, it was a complete shambles if anything. The awards ceremony will take place at the Conrad Hotel, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2 with dinner and drinks from 12noon on June 16 – that's right, dinner and drinks for the those at RISE! who in our view get saddistic kicks out of tormenting and hunting a gentle, innocent animal.

ARAN needs all our supporters from across the country to inundate the Public Relations Institute of Ireland's CEO Gerry Davis with emails and polite telephone calls of protest to encourage him to drop RISE! from the nomination. We cannot overly state how important it is that you take action, once finished please be sure to send ARAN a copy of your email so that we can track the volume of correspondence.

YOUR ACTION WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE – EMAIL AND IF POSSIBLE CALL THE PRII TODAY!

Email: gerry@prii.ie and cc cyrilla@prii.ie; info@prii.ie 

Finished emailing? Take a quick moment to tell the PRII how disgusted you really are with them for including a group that fronts blood sports on their nominations list, tell them to remove RISE! as a matter of urgency, call (01)-661 8004 and outside of Ireland +353-1-6618004

We're again asking all our supporters to please email the PRII and urge them to take RISE! off their nominations list, we must not allow RISE! to be publicly thanked for fronting the public relations of blood sports in Ireland, a successful vote for RISE! will tell the public that the hunting of Irish wildlife really is acceptable, but it's not. It would also be a real blow for RISE! to be taken off the list, wouldn’t that be music to your ears? We think so and more so music to the ears of many of Ireland's gentle wildlife.

As always, keep up the good work of helping to stop cruelty to animals and thank you for your ongoing, loyal support that enables us to be a national voice for all animals.

ARAN

'Fighting animal abuse across Ireland'

P.S. This time last year we were in the middle of an active campaign to help push through the Green Party legislation to ban the Ward Union hunt. Please see below two videos of our demonstration outside of Dail Eireann with roughly 120 campaigners and some news coverage of the campaign. ARAN thanks all campaigners and groups that played an active part in making this legislation a huge success.

Demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAUnnUgJ_Tw

TV3 news coverage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZFYt393KiQ 

Urge IGB to Abandon Greyhound Racing in China Plans

Dear Supporters,

Please see below an article in today's Irish Daily Mail in relation to the 37 Irish celebrities that have spoke out against plans by the Irish Greyhound Board's proposed racing venture in China. ARAN would like to thank the work of Irish celebrity and singer, Sharon Shannon, for working hard to get the celebrities to speak out against the proposed plans. Click here for their letter in yesterday's Irish Times. In an interview with the Irish Daily Mail yesterday, ARAN backed calls for the CEO of the IGB, Adrian Neilan, to step down as a matter of urgency in relation to him overseeing this wreck-less plan that in another way, has given more spotlight to the immense suffering and cruelty associated with greyhound racing than what any animal protection group could have asked for. One email to ARAN yesterday called it 'An own goal'.

YOU CAN STOP THE IGB PLANS, TAKE EFFECTIVE ACTION TODAY!

Email the CEO of the Irish Greyhound Board, Adrian Neilan, and ask him to step down as a matter of urgency for overseeing this wreck-less plan of greyhound racing in China -- a country that has no human rights laws -- let alone animal protection laws. However, we know that greyhounds from Ireland won't be sent there now, but, the IGB want to oversee and run greyhound racing in China.

Click here for an Irish Times article on the venture, which is looking increasingly likely.

Send your polite email to adrian.neilan@igb.ie and be sure to CC' in your email the following, Simon.Coveney@agriculture.gov.ie; Shane.Mcentee@oireachtas.ie, and if possible, forward ARAN a copy so we can track the volume of correspondence.  Be sure to forward this email far and wide to generate maximum campaign pressure to help our greyhound friends.

Thank you for all you are doing to fight animal abuse, together we can make a big difference.

ARAN

'Fighting animal abuse across Ireland'

P.S. This weekend The Irish Sunday Mirror will be running an article on animal experiments in Ireland, please be sure to check it out.

We are currently working on developing a brand new ARAN.IE website, once launched, we will be releasing a new round of hard-hitting campaigns, effective actions, lively demonstrations, so be ready for a summer of action for animals. We are also working on possible plans to hold our national march and rally against cruelty to animals in Dublin, if you would like to see this happen, please email us your ideas and feedback, we'll be letting all supporters and groups know in the coming months.

MASSACRE OF DOGS IN a public shelter in BOTOSANI ROMANIA...Please send PROTEST LETTER

Romania are DETERMINED to EXTERMINATE the strays, with or without the blessing of a LAW

This was posted to me earlier today  Please help in any way you possible can.



DEAR FRIENDS
MASSACRE OF DOGS IN a public shelter in BOTOSANI ROMANIA...Please send PROTEST LETTER
Posted by Mira Iordanescu at 5:31pm
DEAR FRIENDS
It is obvious, that local authorities in Romania, are DETERMINED to EXTERMINATE the strays, with or without the blessing of a LAW....they now try all possible ways to KILL AS MANY dogs as possible...

Tuesday night ( May 10/11, 2011 ) they have KILLED all 200 dogs in the shelter of Botosani Romania...based on, most likely prefabricated information that an incurable disease has been discovered...(distemper)...The workers, attacked the media with bricks and a smell of alcohol surrounded them, it is said that they denied access to the POLICE !...it is very unlikely that these poor creatures have been " humanely PTS ! Now, the Sanitary-Veterinary office from Botosani has discovered the ....."disease" and the Deputy- Mayor gave the order to kill the dogs...The Local Association, has been able to save 10 of them..

Please be so kind and sent the letter bellow. The " euthanasia" took place over night. The veterinarian says that he PTS 200 dogs in 2 hours, with Inter-thoracic injection... well...you see, THEY, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, will find all kind of "explanation " to KILL...please look at the photos, at the bottom of the note, you will see the dogs one day before their slaughter !



PROTEST LETTER

SUBJECT : We protest the slaughter of strays in Botosani , Romania



To whom it may concern,



I, as a human being and citizen of the world, can not find the right words to express my outrage about the massacre of strays at the city pound in Botosani, Romania.

It has become obvious already that local authorities in your country will do anything to slaughter as many strays as possible.

What has happened in your town is yet another example of how horrible the animals are treated in your country, and and there is no excuse for this barbarism.

http://www.realitatea.net/maidanezii-...
http://www.antena3.ro/romania/macel-l...
http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/botosan...

It is obvious that the poor animals in the shelter of Botosani have been killed in barbaric ways, ( based on the media reports) and it is obvious that the employees of the shelter , by throwing bricks to the journalists, and by refusing even the Police the access in the premises, have displayed the REAL face of the barbaric treatment of animals.
Althoug the veterinarian says that HE euthanised 200 dogs, it is very strange that this procedure has been done over night, and that by 6 am, the next day all corpses were already ready to be sent to incineration at PROTAN...
http://www.stiri.botosani.ro/stire/28...

I shall boycott Romania until the animals will be treated properly and until Romania will implement the only successful program to reduce strays population, recommended by the WHO, Capture/Castrate/RETURN....and will implement and APPLY real laws for the protection of animals...
In deed, Romania is the land of death for the animals...
I try to understand WHY the animals have been killed OVER NIGHT...? And why the local association DID NOT KNOW about the distemper epidemic in the shelter,...and why the dogs where OK one day before...

I still hope that a HONEST, THOROUGH and OPEN investigation will take place and ALL those responsible for this hideous crime against innocent animals, will be punished.

Thank you very much for your attention

TO :

consiliu@cjbotosani.ro,petitie@prefecturabotosani.ro,primaria@primariabt.ro,catalin.alexa@primariabt.ro,niculina.mocanu@primariabt.ro,adriana.zaiceanu@primariabt.ro,valentina.bercea@primariabt.ro,iulian.ciubotaru@primariabt.ro
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stiri@botosani.ro,lucian.muntean@politiaromana.ro,
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Parliamentary questions

Subject: Implementation of the 7th Amendment to the Cosmetic Directive 76/768/EEC

Answer(s)

Can the Commission confirm 11 March 2013 as the final deadline for the implementation of the 7th Amendment to the Cosmetic Directive 76/768/EEC? Is a delay expected with regard to the Directive's full implementation? Can the Commission describe in detail the timeline for phasing out the sale of cosmetics using certain types of extra animal testing practised outside the EU, which is not currently covered by the Directive, including a detailed chronology of the proposed policy actions?

Answer given by Mr Dalli on behalf of the Commission

The Commission would like to draw the Honourable Members attention to the Commission answers to Written Questions E‑24/11, E‑25/11, P‑175/11, E‑689/11 and E‑948/11(1), which all address similar questions. As regards the sale of cosmetics using animal testing practiced outside Europe, these are addressed by the marketing ban in the Cosmetics Directive. The marketing ban in the European Union for cosmetic products tested on animals or containing ingredients tested on animals applies since March 2009. However an extended implementation period until 11 March 2013 applies in relation to repeated-dose toxicity, reproductive toxicity and toxicokinetics. Therefore the marketing of products that were tested outside the EU in order to meet the requirements of the Cosmetics Directive is already banned with this limited exemption which expires on 11 March 2013. Without any change to the existing legislation the marketing ban in relation to these endpoints will come into force automatically on that date. The Commission is currently analysing the availability of alternatives and the impacts of the 2013 deadline; this process is described in the answers to the above-referenced written questions.

Ban on animal testing

http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/sectors/cosmetics/animal-testing/index_en.htm