Category: Repeal / Resolution: GAR#489 / Author: Llorens
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The World Assembly,
Noting the well-placed intentions of GAR#489 "Ethical Treatment Of Animals In Research" to reduce the harm inflicted on animals used for scientific experimentation and product development;
Concerned that clause 2(b) of the resolution is extremely lenient with the terms by which animal experimentation may be carried out, exempting any experimentation that harms animals physically or psychologically for vague reasons such as "material benefit to its sapient owner";
Anxious that animal research institutes are able to kill animal species at risk of extinction if they cannot be safely returned to the habitat in which they were captured and no other person or body has the means by which to provide for its necessities;
Worried that the erroneous language of section 8(a) of the resolution may allow for animals to be unsuitably released back into the habitat in which they were captured, where they may be at risk of practices such as poaching, so long as they have the potential ability to survive independently in the long-term;
Concluding that, as a result of its aforementioned inadequacies, the resolution should not be upheld as international law;
Confident that replacement legislation will be authored to address and build upon this important issue of international concern;
Hereby repeals GAR#489 "Ethical Treatment Of Animals In Research".