| Dear friends,
probably many of you already know the Italian antivivisection campaign "Close down Morini" - where Morini is a farm which has been selling animals to vivisection laboratories (dogs and rodents) for more than 30 years. You can find info about the campaign on the website: http://www.morinicampaign.tk
Anyway, we are now here to ask your help for a specific purpose: now it's the time to make a STRONG pressure on the Mayor of S. Polo d'Enza, the small town where the farm is located. Why? Well, let's take a few steps back... two years ago, thanks to the huge protests from the public opinion all over Italy, horrified by the use of young beagle dogs in the vivisection laboratories, the Emilia Romagna Regional Council approved a regional law stating that "cats and dogs cannot be sold and used for experiments all over the region". This law has caused a lot of problems to the Morini farm, because its main income came from selling the dogs, more than rodents or any other animal, to the laboratories.
But the vivisectors pressured the national Italian Government, so the judgement of the validity of this law has been submitted to the "Constitutional Court". The Court has been examining the case for more than one year, during which time fortunately the law has been applied, and the farm has not been authorized to sell dogs to the vivisectors.
Few weeks ago came the result of the Court examination: a bad result, because they decided that the law is not valid - they said that a single
region cannot decide on this matter.
But at the moment the farm cannot sell dogs to the laboratories, yet, because in order to have the necessary permission renewed, the Mayor of the town must give an explicit authorization.
The former Mayor was absolutely in favour of the Morini farm, but A FEW
WEEKS AGO A NEW MAYOR HAS BEEN ELECTED!
So it's really important to make pressure on him to convince him to
"reconvert" the farm to another activity.
The interesting and new event is that a few days ago an "Open Meeting" of citiziens and companies operating in S. Polo has been created.
They wrote an "open letter" to the Mayor, asking him to stop the activity of the farm, both because of its cruelty and because of the damage to the "image" of the region and consequently to the business opportunities of all the other local companies**.
At this crucial moment, the Mayor must feel the responsibility for such a choice. It's a fundamental moment.
For this reason, we invite all of your to send him and all the regional council members, a "strong and clear" message. Here we present a draft
message, but you are invited to write a personal one!
During the "Open Meeting", a network of animals shelter has been activated, and they are ready to accomodate ALL the animals now kept in the farm.
The complete text of the "open letter" to the Mayor can be found at the
page:
http://www.novivisezione.org/morini.html
Please, take part in this protest!
Thank you very much.
Massimo Tettamanti, Marina Berati
www.Novivisezione.org
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