{"id":3109,"date":"2025-02-28T12:41:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transcience.fr\/convergence-animaux-politique-alerting-and-mobilizing-french-parliamentarians\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:12:45","slug":"convergence-animaux-politique-alerting-and-mobilizing-french-parliamentarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transcience.fr\/en\/convergence-animaux-politique-alerting-and-mobilizing-french-parliamentarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Convergence Animaux Politique: alerting and mobilizing French parliamentarians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Convergence Animaux Politique (CAP)<\/strong> is a non-profit association whose mission is to promote cooperation between NGOs and mobilize French political decision-makers to change the law in favor of animals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAP lobbies on 6 key themes: livestock and food, wild animals and biodiversity, animal experimentation, companion animals, captivity and bullfighting, law, education and governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 5, 2025<\/strong>, Convergence Animaux Politique organized its 17\u1d49 Meeting between NGOs and parliamentarians in Paris, entitled “Substitutive methods: for efficient, competitive and ethical research”.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meetings were organized around two round tables attended by members of parliament (or their staff) and local elected representatives. These included MP Anne Stambach-Terrenoir (LFI), the staff of MPs Yannick Jadot (GEST), Charles Fournier (ECO), Marie-No\u00eblle Battistel (SOC) and Ersilia Soudais (LFI), the staff of senators Samantha Cazebonne (RE) and Sophie Briante-Guillemont (RDSE), and local councillors Eddine Ariztegui (PA) and Sandra Krief (PA), in charge of animal issues at Montpellier and Grenoble respectively. Other political figures were also present, including Ghalia Mercier, of the France Insoumise animal condition group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round table 1 focused on “Substitutive methods: a field for research and for France?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four topics were discussed during the round table:<\/p>\n\n\n\n