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Sociology > Depression |
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"TONY_GAL" |
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22 Jan 2007 03:03:14 PM |
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Urgent Action Needed to help Millions of Laboratory Animals |
Tony
Nottingham
England
22 January 2007
TO: All People Who Care
A new European Chemical Testing Policy
called REACH has now been finalised by
the European Union. Under these proposals
Chemicals of every imaginable kind - from
those used in industrial processes to the
ingredients of consumer products - will be
tested on Millions of animals from mice to
fish to dogs, causing untold suffering.
If you believe that REACH should make more
use of Alternative Testing to test its Chemicals
then please take action now.
If you are a European citizen please contact your
local papers and own MEP asking them to promote
the development of humane non-animal testing
methods under the REACH legislation, which is
the best hope we have for sparing animals the
misery of a testing laboratory.
A sample letter can be found at the BUAV
(British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection)
website at www.BUAV.org (Select Campaigns,
Chemical Testing, Get Active then Writing to
the local press).
For all Non-European members, you can still
help. Please tell all your colleagues and friends
in the UK and Europe about REACH. Everyone
can help and you can make a difference.
Thank You
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| User: "%" |
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| Title: Re: Urgent Action Needed to help Millions of Laboratory Animals |
22 Jan 2007 03:34:52 PM |
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"TONY_GAL" <tony_gal_001@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1169499794.097997.148590@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Tony
Nottingham
England
22 January 2007
TO: All People Who Care
A new European Chemical Testing Policy
called REACH has now been finalised by
the European Union. Under these proposals
Chemicals of every imaginable kind - from
those used in industrial processes to the
ingredients of consumer products - will be
tested on Millions of animals from mice to
fish to dogs, causing untold suffering.
If you believe that REACH should make more
use of Alternative Testing to test its Chemicals
then please take action now.
If you are a European citizen please contact your
local papers and own MEP asking them to promote
the development of humane non-animal testing
methods under the REACH legislation, which is
the best hope we have for sparing animals the
misery of a testing laboratory.
A sample letter can be found at the BUAV
(British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection)
website at www.BUAV.org (Select Campaigns,
Chemical Testing, Get Active then Writing to
the local press).
For all Non-European members, you can still
help. Please tell all your colleagues and friends
in the UK and Europe about REACH. Everyone
can help and you can make a difference.
Thank You
ok , but you have to volunteer for the testing now
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: Urgent Action Needed to help Millions of Laboratory Animals |
22 Jan 2007 04:28:02 PM |
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In message <1169499794.097997.148590@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
TONY_GAL <tony_gal_001@yahoo.co.uk> writes
Tony
Nottingham
England
22 January 2007
TO: All People Who Care
A new European Chemical Testing Policy
called REACH has now been finalised by
the European Union. Under these proposals
Chemicals of every imaginable kind - from
those used in industrial processes to the
ingredients of consumer products - will be
tested on Millions of animals from mice to
fish to dogs, causing untold suffering.
You're organising volunteers to have safety tests carried out on them,
yes?
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
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| User: "%" |
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| Title: Re: Urgent Action Needed to help Millions of Laboratory Animals |
22 Jan 2007 04:41:13 PM |
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"Alan Harding" <Alan@harding.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:C7YrNxGypTtFFwV3@harding.demon.co.uk...
In message <1169499794.097997.148590@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
TONY_GAL <tony_gal_001@yahoo.co.uk> writes
Tony
Nottingham
England
22 January 2007
TO: All People Who Care
A new European Chemical Testing Policy
called REACH has now been finalised by
the European Union. Under these proposals
Chemicals of every imaginable kind - from
those used in industrial processes to the
ingredients of consumer products - will be
tested on Millions of animals from mice to
fish to dogs, causing untold suffering.
You're organising volunteers to have safety tests carried out on them,
yes?
--
The opinions given above may be mine. They might also
just be what I feel like saying right now, okay?
and your first in line to try the new hair remover
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: Urgent Action Needed to help Millions of Laboratory Animals |
23 Jan 2007 11:08:29 AM |
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On 22 Jan 2007 13:03:14 -0800, "TONY_GAL" <tony_gal_001@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
If you believe that REACH should make more
use of Alternative Testing to test its Chemicals
then please take action now.
I do! Let's test these chemicals on REACH members first.
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| User: "Ivan Marsh" |
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| Title: Re: Urgent Action Needed to help Millions of Laboratory Animals |
22 Jan 2007 03:10:34 PM |
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:03:14 -0800, TONY_GAL wrote:
Tony
Nottingham
England
22 January 2007
TO: All People Who Care
A new European Chemical Testing Policy called REACH has now been
finalised by the European Union. Under these proposals Chemicals of
every imaginable kind - from those used in industrial processes to the
ingredients of consumer products - will be tested on Millions of animals
from mice to fish to dogs, causing untold suffering.
Please... if you ever get sick don't you dare use any technology that was
discovered through animal testing to save your life... then I will take
you seriously.
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| User: "humble life" |
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| Title: Re: Urgent Action Needed to help Millions of Laboratory Animals |
22 Jan 2007 03:17:21 PM |
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Ivan Marsh wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:03:14 -0800, TONY_GAL wrote:
Tony
Nottingham
England
22 January 2007
TO: All People Who Care
A new European Chemical Testing Policy called REACH has now been
finalised by the European Union. Under these proposals Chemicals of
every imaginable kind - from those used in industrial processes to the
ingredients of consumer products - will be tested on Millions of animals
from mice to fish to dogs, causing untold suffering.
Please... if you ever get sick don't you dare use any technology that was
discovered through animal testing to save your life... then I will take
you seriously.
free the pedo's
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: Urgent Action Needed to help Millions of Laboratory Animals |
23 Jan 2007 11:12:51 AM |
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:10:34 -0600, Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote:
Please... if you ever get sick don't you dare use any technology that was
discovered through animal testing to save your life... then I will take
you seriously.
The Vice President of PETA is a diabetic who uses insulin - a substance
made with the use of chicken eggs.
When her hypocrisy was pointed out to her, she said she felt she needed her
life in order to spend it protecting animals.
Ummm, okay... What's good for the goose isn't necessarily good for the
chicken.
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: Urgent Action Needed to help Millions of Laboratory Animals |
23 Jan 2007 06:04:05 PM |
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then CyberDroog wrote, On 1/23/2007 10:12 AM:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:10:34 -0600, Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote:
Please... if you ever get sick don't you dare use any technology that was
discovered through animal testing to save your life... then I will take
you seriously.
The Vice President of PETA is a diabetic who uses insulin - a substance
made with the use of chicken eggs.
When her hypocrisy was pointed out to her, she said she felt she needed her
life in order to spend it protecting animals.
Ummm, okay... What's good for the goose isn't necessarily good for the
chicken.
The initial source of insulin for clinical use in humans was from cow,
horse, pig or fish pancreases. Insulin from these sources is effective
in humans as it is nearly identical to human insulin (three amino acid
difference for bovine insulin, one amino acid difference for porcine).
Insulin is obviously a protein which has been very strongly conserved
across evolutionary time. Differences in suitability of beef, pork, or
fish insulin preparations for particular patients have been primarily
the result of preparation purity and of allergic reactions to assorted
non-insulin substances remaining in those preparations. Purity has
improved more or less steadily since the 1920s, but allergic reactions
have continued though slowly reducing in severity. Insulin production
from animal pancreases was widespread for decades, but there are very
few patients today relying on insulin from these sources.
Human insulin is now manufactured for widespread clinical use using
genetic engineering techniques, which significantly reduces impurity
reaction problems. Eli Lilly marketed the first such insulin, Humulin,
in 1982. Humulin was the first medication produced using modern genetic
engineering techniques, in which actual human DNA is inserted into a
host cell (E. coli in this case). The host cells are then allowed to
grow and reproduce normally, and due to the inserted human DNA, they
produce actual human insulin.
Genentech developed the technique Lilly used to produce Humulin. Novo
Nordisk has also developed a genetically engineered insulin
independently. Most insulins used clinically are produced this way, for
they avoid most of the allergic reaction problem.
Since January 2006, all insulins distributed in the U.S. and some other
countries are human insulins or their analogs. A special FDA importation
process is required to obtain beef or pork insulin for use in the U.S.,
though there may be some remaining stocks of pork insulin made by Lilly
in 2005 or earlier.
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