(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Animal experiments should not be banned in Switzerland, according to the Swiss government, which submitted its views to Parliament on the initiative“Yes to a future without animal experiments”. This comes three years after a similar text was widely rejected by the Swiss people. This content was published on October 8, 2025 - 13:49 3 minutes Keystone-SDA

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The initiative calls for a total ban on animal experiments and on the breeding of and trade in animals for such experiments. The ban would come into force in stages.

Experiments involving severe constraints and those carried out in the fields of basic research, teaching and training would be banned as soon as the initiative is accepted. All other experiments would be banned after seven years at the latest.

The initiative was submitted in November 2024 by an association with over 127,000 signatures. According to the committee, animal experiments are ineffective and ethically unacceptable.

Serious consequences

In a press release, the federal government confirmed its position, which it has advocated on numerous occasions in recent years: a ban would have negative repercussions for Swiss research and education, as well as for animal and human health, and called for the text to be rejected without a counter-proposal.

The government argues that animal experiments remain essential for the development of medicines and research into human diseases, particularly those that have not yet been sufficiently studied or for which there is as yet no effective treatment, such as various types of cancer.

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