SARC victory - the MoD stop testing on live goats

[Dawn (DiddyDawn)]

Had this email through earlier and if anyone can help with the homing of these babes or offer transport, please can you contact SARC direct on info@sarconline.co.uk 


VERY URGENT- GOATS NEED FOREVER HOMES, FOSTER HOMES, DRIVERS NEEDED, VANS/ VAN HIRE. PLEASE READ EMERGENCY APPEAL BELOW
 
Hi all

Some of you have said that you can take some chickens that we are getting
in July however I now have a rather urgent request for a home for some
goats. You may be aware that the MOD (QinetiQ) have stopped their
hyperbaric testing on goats. Due to this QinetiQ have 40 goats left and
are planning on killing them all.
However a local newspaper is negotiating with them to hand them over. In
the meantime we are desperately looking for
-- Homes / Foster homes
-- Drivers
-- Vans / van hire

There are 10 homes so far and someone already volunteered to hire a van
and drive, but we need more!!

If you are able to help then please email SARC info@sarconline.co.uk who
are organising this

Please bare in mind that it is not 100% definite that the goats will be
handed over, but if homes are found for them then hopefully QinetiQ will
have compassion and let them live.

Thank you
Tara
BAA







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[Millys Mum]

I guess if the goats are allowed to find a new life SARC would take them like they did the others.

[LesleyW]

That's good news but whose to say what will happen to the goats now - they are only five minutes down the road from me.

[Millys Mum]

After a sustained campaign over the last year and a half, the Southern Animal
Rights Coalition have finally put a stop to cruel and unnecessary hyperbaric
research conducted by the MoD at the QinetiQ laboratory in Alverstoke, Hants.

The campaign began after 9 goats were rescued from the facility in June 2006.
We immediately began weekly protests in Alverstoke, as well as leafleting and
demonstrations across the country. This ensured mass local support for our
campaign.

We reviewed the MoD's research, and exposed the scandal behind their 'science',
as well as highlighting other agencies who had already adopted non-animal tests
in this field.

As well as this we worked with MP's, including Mike Hancock MP, who helped keep
this issue in the political arena. After a few months of the campaign, the MoD
announced a review of the tests, which we ensured was fully aware of our
findings and research.

Today the MoD put out the following statement. We are delighted that these
tests have stopped, although we maintain that it is a decision that is 100
years overdue. This also highlights a far wider issue, of repeat tests which
are being conducted across the country without review, and which would be
halted were they exposed to the public.

Statement from the MoD:

"Written Ministerial Statement- Cessation of Goat Experiments in support of MOD
requirement to be laid in the House on Tuesday 5th February

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has today announced the end of its immediate
requirement for testing on live goats as part of its hyperbaric research in
support of the MoD's Submarine Escape Rescue and Abandonment System (SMERAS).

This research programme has been aimed at improving the accuracy of the
information relating to the likely risk of the incidence of decompression
illness following escape from a submerged submarine in varying depths and
internal submarine pressures.  Information obtained from these trials has been
used to provide advice to submarine crews in the event of early abandonment of
a disabled submerged submarine. This information enables the crew to make an
informed judgement of the relative risks of delaying abandonment until rescue
arrives. The welfare of its personnel is paramount to the MoD and this advice
forms an integral part of MoD's Duty of Care to its submarine staff.

The MoD only conducts animal testing where absolutely necessary and all work
involving animals is carried out in strict accordance with the requirements of
the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.  Therefore, all testing using
animals is subject to regular review to assess the need to continue with such
work.

The MoD has recently reviewed the requirement for further such hyperbaric
research. The testing programme was aimed at improving the accuracy of the
information relating to the likely probability and consequence of decompression
illness following escape from a submerged submarine in varying depths and
internal submarine pressures. This requirement has now been achieved, and the
review has concluded that the remaining associated areas of uncertainty in
submarine escape and rescue relate to events that are considered highly
unlikely, and do not therefore need to be addressed by means of animal testing.
The MoD has endorsed these recommendations and as a result, it has no immediate
need to continue animal testing of this type."