Breeders in France are selling dogs to animal testing labs due to ‘excess stock’ during the nation’s coronavirus crisis.
According to founding president of France's One Voice, an organisation that “denounces animal exploitation”, Muriel Arnal, France is the number one country in Europe that sends dogs to laboratories for experiments.
The group has started a petition renouncing the practice, Ms Arnal said, and has filed a complaint with the French high court to bring the measure, which One Voice says was adopted “on the quiet during the lockdown”, to an end. Breeders selling “excess stock” of dogs to labs for experimental purposes is “allowed under Decree number 2020-27 of 17th March 2020, which amends the regulations on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes”, One Voice said.
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