{"id":763480,"date":"2021-04-13T07:49:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=763480"},"modified":"2021-04-13T07:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T11:54:21","slug":"gratuitous-cruelty-undercover-video-at-spanish-animal-testing-facility-shows-horrific-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=763480","title":{"rendered":"‘GRATUITOUS CRUELTY’: Undercover video at Spain’s animal testing facility shows horrific abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Some of the most graphic instances of cruelty include scissors being used to decapitate young rodents and fully conscious rats having blood drawn out of their eyes.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

NATALIE GROVER:<\/strong> Undercover footage of \u201cgratuitous cruelty and abuse\u201d allegedly taken in an animal testing facility in Spain \u2013 which has previously secured funding from the EU and Spanish authorities for projects \u2013 has been published, provoking calls for the centre\u2019s closure.<\/p>\n

Madrid-based contract research organisation Vivotecnia conducts experiments on a range of animals including monkeys, dogs, mini pigs, rats, mice and rabbits for the biopharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetic, tobacco and food industries. An animal rights organisation said the footage was taken by a whistleblower who worked at the facility between 2018 and 2020. It appears to show animals housed in barren conditions, being taunted, smacked and shaken, and cut into with no or inadequate anaesthesia.<\/p>\n

The footage, published by Cruelty Free International (CFI), appears to show technicians shaking and swinging rats vigorously to stun them into submission prior to dosing. Scissors were shown being used to decapitate young rodents. Rabbits were seen struggling in their restraint devices, falling and suffering injuries. Dogs are shown being picked up by the scruff of the neck and thrown into boxes or cages…<\/p>\n

Some of the most graphic instances of cruelty include fully conscious rats having blood drawn out of their eyes \u2013 which CFI described as a usually \u201cterminal\u201d procedure meant to be conducted under anaesthesia. In another incident, a senior member of staff is seen drawing a \u201cface\u201d on the genitals of a male monkey who was pinned to the table while another staff member practised collecting blood from the animal\u2019s leg…<\/p>\n

In a statement, CFI\u2019s director of science and regulatory affairs, Dr Katy Taylor, said: \u201cThis footage shows yet again the dark side of regulatory toxicity testing on animals. The European commission tells us that directive 2010\/63 not only protects animals used in science but that it also provides a strategy to replace animal testing. It does neither. \u201cThere are various examples of where the procedures were done so badly or the handling was so bad that they\u2019ve breached directives, but \u2026 also we do have instances of gratuitous cruelty and abuse”…<\/p>\n

The footage appears to show practices in contravention of Spanish and EU law \u2013 directive 2010\/63 \u2013 that, among other things, mandates suffering in animals used in experiments be kept to a minimum, added CFI, which is campaigning for the closure of the facility and an overhaul of animal experimentation laws… CFI has uncovered similar breaches of laws elsewhere in Europe, most recently at a facility in Germany. SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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NATALIE GROVER: Undercover footage of \u201cgratuitous cruelty and abuse\u201d allegedly taken in an animal testing facility in Spain \u2013 which has previously secured funding from the EU and Spanish authorities for projects \u2013 has been published, provoking calls for the centre\u2019s closure. Madrid-based contract research organisation Vivotecnia conducts experiments on a range of animals including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,23,24,25],"tags":[27,29,30,35,37],"class_list":["post-763480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-rights","category-science","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation","tag-exploitation","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763486,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763480\/revisions\/763486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/763482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}