Animal testing to be banned in Hungary?

Biggest opposition party Jobbik submitted a draft resolution which aims to ban animal testing from 2022 on – hvg.hu writes.

Current regulation is not deterrent enough

Lajos Kepli, MP of the party stresses in the draft that it is an international trend to ban drug tests on animals. According to their draft resolution, Jobbik would ban animal testing already by 2020 in the case of domestic animals. He highlighted that there is

no scientific evidence behind the efficiency of animal testing.

Furthermore, a multitude of new technical devices have been introduced recently, and, though these are more expensive, they do not harm the animals.

This was not the first time Jobbik made a stand for animal rights. Over the past years, Jobbik has repeatedly called attention to the depressing situation in the area of animal protection. For example, former MP Zsolt Egyed submitted a bill before the 2018 parliamentary elections which aimed to increase the severity of punishments regarding the treatment of animals – reported civishir.hu, a news portal in Debrecen. However, the government denied even to open a parliamentary debate about the bill and killed it in the committee phase.

Prison sentences for animal torturers

Egyed’s motion would have changed the regulations in three key points: