New Zealand fails to make rehoming lab animals mandatory

[Catherine]

The New Zealand government could have acted to protect lab animals. It could have made it mandatory for them to be rehomed.
Instead labs are free to kill then and kill them they do in large numbers. About 250 animals a day are killed by labs.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/...le-to-know

Their reasoning for not changing the law?
"The Primary Production Select Committee said it would not make rehoming mandatory because there was nothing in the law to prevent research groups from already doing so."

The various research labs have always been able to rehome animals. They could physically do it. What they lack is the will to do it. That is why it needs to be mandatory. Anything less will have no result at all. The government committee has completely missed the point.

At a time when other countries are trying to rehome lab animals, New Zealand has failed. Animals are still being killed in large numbers.