Animal Experiments
Animals in laboratories are shocked, infected, burned, poisoned, shot, surgically mutilated and subjected to many other types of torture in order to test all sorts of products, including hair dye, soap, nappies, agricultural and industrial chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs. Animals are also used in military and psychological experiments, and dogs and cats are exploited in invasive experiments to test food for companion animals. A large number of animals are even used in “basic research”, research for its own sake, where the aim and outcome are entirely unknown.
How anyone can look into the eyes of an animal, with its tail wagging, or it purring. And then horrifically butcher, experiment and injure them, then listen to their screams of agony. I have no idea. No heart or soul comes to mind. I know people say 2 wrongs don't make a right. But omg how I pray they come back to life as a research animal.
According to government statistics,
2.73 million animals, including birds, cats, dogs, horses, primates and rodents,
were used in British laboratories in 2002. Around 60 per cent of the animals in
these experiments were given no anaesthetics at all, while the rest were
administered “some form of anaesthesia to alleviate the severity of the
interventions”. Frequently, animals survive one experiment only to be used in
subsequent procedures before they are killed.
As shocking as these numbers are, they are not the end of the story. To maintain
stocks of animals of a variety of weights and ages, researchers constantly
over-breed. So in addition to the millions of animals who are killed in
laboratory experiments, millions more die as a result of overpopulation. Records
of the number of animals who are killed because of over-breeding are not kept,
but the National Anti-Vivisection Society estimates that for every animal used
in a UK lab, two are killed as “surplus” – sacks of rodents are gassed every
day.
Laboratories may breed animals for their own use or buy them from breeders.
Animals are also trapped in the wild and shipped to laboratories. Breeding
animals for laboratories is big business, but gaining access to those breeding
establishments is virtually impossible. However, some animal rights campaigners
were able to gain access to conduct unofficial inspections that revealed the
following:
• The majority of animals in laboratories spend their lives in stacked cages not
much larger than shoeboxes.
• There is nothing to mentally stimulate the animals or relieve their boredom.
• Many animals exhibit abnormal behaviours, including twisting, rocking,
self-mutilation and wailing.
• It is rare for laboratories to provide dogs with any bedding.
• Some primates live alone in barren cages no more than a few meters across.
• Rodents are often mutilated to make identification easy. Without anaesthetics,
the tips of their tails or their toes are snipped off with scissors or holes are
punched through their ears.
It is generally accepted that the conditions inside laboratories do not promote
animals’ well-being. In fact, cannibalism among some species is so common that
guidelines are issued to prevent this “waste of resources”. Millions of animals
die because they are unwanted. To maintain stocks of animals of a range of
weights and ages, researchers constantly overbreed; so millions die because they
are unwanted.
For every animal used, two are thrown away as unwanted, rodents are gassed
daily, by the sackload. Animals are gassed as surplus to requirements
At Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School of 52,435 animals bred at the
laboratory, just 15,198 were used in experiments. 33,348 animals were gassed as
surplus to requirements.
In the gas chamber they would scramble over each other, desperate to escape
death. The vast numbers meant that live animals were thrown into bin bags with
their dead cage mates.
An interesting fact, ask 100 people if they agree with animal experiments, the ONLY ones who will say yes, or those you would never want as friends.
Shes lucky shes finally dead
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