Italy Passes Sweeping Reforms for Animals in Laboratories

Here’s
some great news to kick off the new month: Italy’s parliament has passed a
whole series of new laws
restricting experiments on animals!

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Among other things, the new regulations ban:

• The
  breeding of dogs, cats, and primates for experimentation
• The
  use of animals in military
  exercises and experiments
• All
  experiments involving alcohol, drugs, and tobacco 
• Using live
  animals in education, except for training doctors and veterinarians
• Any
  painful experiment without the use of anesthesia, except for testing the
  effects of analgesia or anesthetics

Italy’s
positive steps forward, which will likely undergo a review by the EU before
being enacted officially, come just months after an EU ban on the sale of cosmetics that were tested on
animals went into effect. Yet, as the links above make embarrassingly clear, the U.S.
is still lagging behind our European friends when it comes to protecting animals
from torturous experiments, although the many victories won by PETA with our members’ support make a world of difference for animals in
laboratories.

What You Can Do

Please
continue to speak out
against the use
of animals for experimentation and enact your own ban by choosing cruelty-free cosmetics and personal-care
products. 

To
help PETA close the gap with Europe and work toward ending cruel
experimentation on animals, become
a member today!