AR-News: Euro elections June 2004

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The European Parliament Elections are to be held June 10th 2004.  You will 
not get a chance to vote for an individual, but for a party (under 
Proportional Representation).

Here's how the parties voted on the recent proposals to ban:
Marketing ban on animal-tested cosmetics.
A ban on testing cosmetics on animals.
An exemption which would have allowed some animal tests to continue if a ban 
was placed.

Therefore the best response is FOR, FOR, and AGAINST.


Party
European People's Party                       Against  For For
European Socialist Party                       For  For For
European Liberal Democratic Party         For ForAgainst
Europe of Democracy and Diversity        For ForAgainst
Group of the United Left/Nordic Green
Left (no UK MEPs)                               For For For
NI                                                      For  For    For
UEN (no UK MEPs)                                Against  For For
Greens                                                 For For Against

Conclusion:  The ECEAE (a group aiming to end animal tests for cosmetics) 
supported both a test ban and a marketing ban, and rejected the exemption. 
As a result, when looking at how the parties voted for the 7th amendment to 
the cosmetics directive we can see:

Overall the Conservative MEPs voted against the ECEAE by rejecting the 
marketing ban and supporting the exemption.
Overall the Labour MEPs voted with the ECEAE supporting the marketing ban, 
but against the ECEAE by supporting an exemption to the marketing ban.
All the Greens supported the ECEAE on all votes.
All the European Liberal Democrats did the same and supported the ECEAE 
position.
Overall the Europe of Democracies and Diversities also supported the ECEAE.

For more see:
http://www.eceae.org/english/e-elections.html






Animal experiments have:
a 63% failure rate when detecting human carcinogens
a 75-95% failure rate for detecting drug side effects
a 70% failure rate for detecting drugs which cause birth defects
Success rates lower than those achieved by uneducated guesswork.

This is not science!!



Recommended website: The Absurdity of vivisection
http://vivisection-absurd.org.uk/

Information on animal research available free by EMail from 
vivisectionkills at hotmail.com

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