Yesterday, Saturday 22nd January, people gathered at Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona, at 12.00h, to prevent the execution of 38 puppies. We will not allow them to be killed! After living hell in Vivotecnia’s facilities, they have the right to a second chance with families who care for them and love them. We organised this rally with the Student Union and the Plataforma Investigación Sin Experimentación Animal – ISEA, as well as the collaboration of La Vaca Style as the poster designer.
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The University of Barcelona, through the Barcelona Science Park Foundation, contracted the laboratory Vivotecnia on 10 November for 255,648.80 euros. The aim was to experiment with a new anti-fibrotic drug on 38 beagle dogs just 8 months old, to calculate the lethal dose that would kill half of them. It was stipulated that the other half would be executed for necropsies and completion of the study, supposedly next Monday, 24 January.
The regulations governing animal experimentation stipulate that those that are in good condition at the end of the study should be put up for adoption, not euthanised. That is why this Saturday we will raise our voices for the victims of Vivotecnia and demand that the execution be halted and that these puppies be put up for adoption. There are many families willing to give them a second chance and to take care of them as they deserve for the rest of their lives.
It is unbelievable that the University of Barcelona has hired, with public money, from all of us, a company that has been denounced for animal abuse. PACMA and other animal rights organisations filed a joint criminal complaint months ago against the experimentation laboratory, which is still progressing in the Court of Colmenar Viejo (Madrid). However, it seems that the University of Barcelona, a public entity, does not care at all about the accusations against Vivotecnia, as well as the horrible video published by Cruelty-Free International, which shows the chilling mistreatment and humiliation to which the animal victims of its staff were subjected.
It is essential to remember that the vast majority of the results derived from animal experimentation cannot be extrapolated to humans and that there are ethical alternatives that do not involve the immense suffering of animal victims of experimentation. It is urgent that the administrations invest in and validate alternative methods to put an end to this barbarity.