EDM 569 & SAFETY OF MEDICINES (EVALUATION) BILL

The Safety of Medicines (Evaluation) Bill 2009 was launched in January to tackle the escalating problem of adverse drug reactions by requiring an unprecedented scientific comparison of testing methods. The Government and the pro-animal testing lobby claim that there have been four inquiries into animal testing – but none has measured its effectiveness at predicting drug safety or the morality of using non-human animals in cruel, outdated experiments.

Dr Ian Gibson MP (Labour), Mike Hancock CBE MP (Liberal Democrat) and David Amess MP (Conservative) have also tabled Early Day Motion 569 in support of the Bill

Your help in persuading your MP to sign EDM 569 is vital! 250 MPs signed EDM 92 in 2006, thanks to your encouragement on the same issue, it was also lobbied by pro-vivisection groups to stop it going through (what have they got to hide?)

Early Day Motion 569

"That this House believes the safety of medicines should be established by the most reliable methods available in order to reduce the large and increasing toll of serious adverse drug reactions and calls upon the Government to initiate an unprecedented comparison of currently required animal tests with a set of human biology-based tests, as required by the Safety of Medicines (Evaluation) Bill 2009, to see which is the most effective means to predict the safety
of medicines for patients."

This will also help challege the cruel, barbaric, outdated and unscientific experiments that murder millions of animals every year in the UK. There is absolutely no moral justification for the abuse and murder of any sentient being.

This is supported by Safer Medicines and many anti-vivisection groups across the UK. It again would have a large effect if we could get this, once and for all showing that millions of animal have died for more profit and secrecy. Please contact your MP and urge them to sign EDM. 569 and support the Bill.

A letter is much more powerful to write in your own words, telling your representative(s) about your own beliefs and experiences and has less chance of being blocked or ignored.

You can contact your MP through the following means:

Find your MP and write to them at: http://www.writetothem.com/ or http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/alcm.cfm

For more information, see Safer Medicines Campaign: http://www.curedisease.net/index.shtml