The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delivered a stunning victory to animals, announcing it will phase out all chemical testing on mammals like dogs, mice, and rabbits by 2035.
The decision reflects the culmination of a hard-fought, years-long battle by animal advocates nationwide, including The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), White Coat Waste Project, and others.
During research studies, animals are often exposed to dangerous drugs, endure prolonged periods of restraint, are burned, cut, electrically shocked, have toxic chemicals rubbed into their eyes, and more. After they undergo horrific physical and psychological suffering for the purpose of ‘science’, they are euthanized.
This decision means that hundreds of thousands of animals will be saved from agonizing torment and death. The policy will extend to both the EPA’s in-house testing and the testing that it requires companies to carry out. The agency will also no longer use tests from mammal studies when making decisions on chemical sanctions.
The EPA will invest in the research and promotion of new approach methodologies that do not exploit animals. These new methods will be faster, more economical and more reliable.
Now, innocent animals will be spared from the horrors of chemical testing, and scientific research will advance in a safer, more humane manner.
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Why can’t they stop NOW many animals will still SUFFER a PAINFUL death by the year of 2035 ( that’s 16 years).
Another 15 years to keep chemically testing on animals? It’s bad enough for mice and rabbits, but dogs. What is wrong with you people, how do you live with yourselves? Like you’re doing everyone a big favor. How do you go home to your pet dogs)cats and look them in the eye?
Another 15 years to stop chemically testing on animals, bad enough for the mice and rabbits, but dogs. Have you even given a thought to how many more will die in 15 minutes? Why bother even stopping it. How do you people even live with yourselves? Like you’re doing everyone such a big favor. Shame on you!
Oh well, 2035 is a victory for all animals that will suffer excruciating pain for all the years to come.
Why is it that a\nything bad ends many years in the future,so more animals suffer until someone pits it more years into the future,Just stop testing now on animals not 2035…More excuses…
it’s about time. ANIMAL ABUSE, TESTING & EXPERIMENTING MUST MUST MUST STOP! NOW!!!1
I can’t watch the videos. 😞 They make me angry 😡 why don’t these liquor companies use science??? WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!
Amazing. So there is hope.
By 2035 ! Dont make me laugh, please ! Ridiculous !
This is good news but hopefully it comes in sooner.
Why wait until 2035??? OH, I know, its to give the giant pharmaceutical companies, the ‘scientists’ and the workers time to gather all their money-profiteering businesses in order before their millions of dollars etc. given on the ‘gravy-train’ and blood-money stops….Every one should know that these money-grabbing, profiteering animal abusers will NEVER find full cures for any disease or illness as their hard-earned funding will STOP, what a shame. They might all have to find jobs that they have to work at to earn their wages instead of spending all their time torturing animals for their own enjoyment and perverted pleasure…..
This is not a victory really. Why wait so long? What’s going to happen is it will be forgotten and it will never end.
Yes, this is great news, but 2035? Why is it going to take 15 YEARS to fully implement it!?!?!
ANIMAL CRUELTY IS UNCCEPTABLE . NO ANIMAL SHOULD BE MADE TO SUFFER OR SUFFER. TOUGHER LAWS NEED TO BE MADE.
ANIMAL CRUELTY IS UNACCEPTABLE. TOUGHER LAWS NEED TO BE MADE.
Are you f’ing kidding me? So 16 more years this will go on? Waaaay tooo long. Might as well just continue to test at this point. Ridiculous!
I don’t see cats listed. They are also part of cruel animal testing.
2035 is hardly a “victory”. This torture should be stopped IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!
Why isn’t this done immediately??
Why do they have to wait that long? Do it now! How many more animals will be tortured & killed before that happens.
Long overdue – but why is it going to take so long to enforce?
IT’S ABOUT TIME ANIMAL TESTING & ABUSE ENDS!!!!! PEOPLE, PLEASE DEMAND AN END TO ALL ANIMAL TESTING & ABUSE.
That’s great news but why the 15 year wait? A whole lot of animals are still going to be tortured and killed over the next 15 years.
This is a bunch of crap.The world prolly wont even last that long with the way things are going & such dingalings on earth.
Another 15 years or so. Why. Are they trying to keep us quiet. I will be dead by then. Will they changes their mind? I bet they will.
Thank you.
But 1935!? Why so long? This should be done immediately. These little innocent animals won’t even be here by then. How many will suffer and die between now and 1935???!
This barbaric practice should never have happened in the first place.
I am happy that they are finally getting rid of testing on live animals but why 2035? Why not right now? Why are they even testing on animals anyway? This is archaic and stupid and it needs to stop now not 15 years from now.
2035 oh please, how many animals will suffer and die in those 15 years. IT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH, IT’S NOT SOON ENOUGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2035 is TOTALLY RIDICULOUS TIME FRAME. SO IN THE MEANTIME WHILE YOU ARE TWIDDLING YOUR THUMBS MILLIONS OF INNOCENT ANIMALS WILL BE TOTURED AND KILLED. NOT ACCEPTABLE IN MY BOOK
2035 ?? This means another 15 years of abuse.
2035? That is a long time to wait – more than a lifetime for many of the animals that are currently used for chemical testing. With computer modeling, companies should not need THAT long to bring different formulas to the marketplace. And current products will have expired long before that date. At least the chemical testing on animals will come to a halt.
Nice to hear but it needs to end NOW! If you need test subjects our world is filled with abusers , murderers, rapists, ect USE Them –
Glenna I totally AGREE WITH YOU 1MILLION PERCENT.
Why does it take 15 years for this to occur? That’s another 15 years of cruelty for these animals.
This is long overdue advancement. Far superior methods of determining toxicity are available, and it’s inexcusable to use living, feeling beings as experimental tools.
2035? Really. How is that a victory? 15 more years of torture doesn’t sound very victorious to me.
FINALLY!!! Some fantastic news!! As long as they DO do this throughout the entire United States, we can work on the rest of the world doing this at the same time…hint, hint…
Fantastic!! Thank you!!!
2035?????
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2035 ! That’s 15+ years from now. How about those animals in the mean time ?
but 2035 is a long way off…
what is the matter with the EPA … DO IT NOW!!!!
more very good news as the EPA joins the community of compasssionate living…
and there is more to be accomplished.. but every win is good…
Well done to all the pressure groups involved, and the EPA.