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Animals are routinely cut open, poisoned, and forced to live in barren steel cages for years, although studies show that because of vast physiological variations between species, human reactions to illnesses and drugs are completely different from those of other animals. Animal experimentation not only is preventing us from learning more relevant information, it continues to harm and kill animals and people every year.
As many as 115 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every year. Much of the experimentation-including pumping chemicals into rats' stomachs, injecting products into rabbits' eyes via syringe, hacking muscle tissue from dogs' thighs, and putting baby monkeys in isolation chambers far from their mothers-is paid for by you, the American taxpayer and consumer.
The industry and its people profit because animals, who cannot defend themselves against abuse, are legally imprisoned and exploited.
Imagine living locked inside a closet without control over any aspect of your life. You can't choose when and what you eat, how you will spend your time, whether or not you will have a partner and children, and if you do, who that partner will be. You can't even decide when the lights go on and off. Think about spending your entire life like this, even though you have committed no crime.
This is life in a laboratory for animals. It is deprivation, isolation, and misery.
On top of the deprivation, there are the experiments. Animals are infected with diseases that they would never normally contract tiny mice grow tumors as large as their own bodies, kittens are purposely blinded, rats are made to suffer seizures. Experimenters force-feed chemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries on them, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines, and much more. Think of what it would be like to endure this and then be dumped back into a cage, usually without any painkillers. Think of what it would be like to endure this and then be dumped back into a cage, usually without any painkillers. Video footage from inside laboratories shows that animals cower in fear every time someone walks by their cages. They don't know if they will be dragged from their prison cells for an injection, blood withdrawal, a painful procedure or surgery, or death. Often animals see other animals killed right in front of them.
While some facilities are better than others at caring for animals not every lab employee kills mice by cutting off their heads with scissors, a practice documented at the University of North Carolina there are no happy animals inside laboratories.
Many dogs and cats used in laboratory experiments come from pound seizures, dealers (puppy mills and companies that breed animals for research purposes) and trapping of wild animals. Some were once trusting companions who simply got surrendered, lost or stolen from their families. This could be your pet
Originally posted by KyoZero
Wish I could tell ya friend...I am no PETA member mind you...I hate ALF and I eat meat but I treat my horses better than myself. In all I would say I am very equal. My wife, my friends, my family and my animals all get treated the way they deserve. I treat animals with the utmost respect
Animals deserve love and caring...hate going to shelters sometimes and seeing the abused...then thinking how many animals RIGHT NOW are probably being hurt...yuck
love em all...except spiders....ugh -shudder-
-Kyo
[edit on 18-3-2010 by KyoZero]
Originally posted by KyoZero
love em all...except spiders....ugh -shudder-
-Kyo
[edit on 18-3-2010 by KyoZero]