Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Great news from Italy: on Wednesday 31st July Italian Parliament approved a bill which provides significant restrictions to the European Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes.
The bill (approved by the Italian Senate on the 8th July, approved by the Chamber of Deputies on the 31st July with 438 votes in favour and 14 against) also states the need to direct scientific research to the use of alternative methods and to consider reusing animals that have already been used in an experiment only if really necessary.
Bans and restrictions are explained in the list (see below). [see link]
Green Hill is a beagle breeding farm owned by Marshall BioResources, its located in Montichiari (Italy) since 2001. In 2010 Morini (another Italian farm which used to breed animals for research) was closed down after the protests of animal rights activists, so since 2010 Green Hill has been the only producer of laboratory beagles and its profit increased.
April 2010 - a group of activists set up an organization: Coordinamento Fermare Green Hill with the aim to block the expansion of the farm, they started the campaign called Salviamo i cani di Green Hill (Lets save Green Hills dogs); on the 24th April they made the first demonstration against Green Hill. On 30th of April the good news came: the project of expansion of G.H. was blocked.
May 2010 - another group of activists set up another organization: Comitato Montichiari Contro Green Hill, they helped the others in their fight against Green Hill.
