Post by Icyfossil on Jan 20, 2013 13:03:40 GMT -5
I got a little curious when someone told me to look up animals used in lab testing, and what I found was completely sickening...
( Underneath copied from www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-animal-testing )
Estimates say that between 14 and 70 million animals are used in experiments each year. It’s impossible to know exactly how many animals are tested because US law does not require scientists to report how many birds, reptiles, or rodents they use.
Over 1 million dogs, cats, primates, sheep, hamsters, and guinea pigs are used in labs each year. Of those, over 86,000 are dogs and cats.
Thousands of shelter animals are tormented and euthanized in U.S. laboratories every year.
50% of animals used in cosmetic testing die within three weeks of the experiment.
Botox is deemed safe for humans once it kills half of mice tested.
Rodents, birds, and reptiles are not protected by the USDA’s Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, labs that only test on these animals are not required to provide pain relief.
Many of these labs burn, shock, torture, shock, and starve animals without pain relief. For example, baby mice endured severed ligaments for 16 weeks without pain relief.
Small animals like hamsters, mice, and rats are usually kept in plastic boxes about the size of a shoebox. Several animals leave in each box.
Larger animals like dogs, cats, and primates usually live in wire cages. Most animals stay in their cages all the time except when they are being used in experiments.
Animal testing is often ineffective in predicting how products will work on people. Some estimates say up to 92% of tests passed on animals failed when tried on humans.
Animal testing that was outlawed in the UK was moved to the US.
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It's simply DISGUSTING. I find it quite horrible. So our rats aren't in metal cages, but plastic boxes? And then, they aren't even in boxes alone, but with OTHER rats doing the same experiments?
Primates, dogs, and cats? Stuck in WIRE CAGES?
And animal testing is INEFFECTIVE?
I'm sure there are some daredevils out there that are willing to test a product, right? So why force ANIMALS?
The stress, sterility and boredom causes some animals to develop neurotic behaviors such incessantly spinning in circles, rocking back and forth and even pulling out their own hair and biting their own skin. They shake and cower in fear whenever someone walks past their cages and their blood pressure spikes drastically. After enduring lives of pain, loneliness and terror, almost all of them will be killed.
Our rats spin in circles and try to eat themselves? Oh my god @_@
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So do YOU think the testing should first be tried on humans? Or animals?
( Underneath copied from www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-animal-testing )
Estimates say that between 14 and 70 million animals are used in experiments each year. It’s impossible to know exactly how many animals are tested because US law does not require scientists to report how many birds, reptiles, or rodents they use.
Over 1 million dogs, cats, primates, sheep, hamsters, and guinea pigs are used in labs each year. Of those, over 86,000 are dogs and cats.
Thousands of shelter animals are tormented and euthanized in U.S. laboratories every year.
50% of animals used in cosmetic testing die within three weeks of the experiment.
Botox is deemed safe for humans once it kills half of mice tested.
Rodents, birds, and reptiles are not protected by the USDA’s Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, labs that only test on these animals are not required to provide pain relief.
Many of these labs burn, shock, torture, shock, and starve animals without pain relief. For example, baby mice endured severed ligaments for 16 weeks without pain relief.
Small animals like hamsters, mice, and rats are usually kept in plastic boxes about the size of a shoebox. Several animals leave in each box.
Larger animals like dogs, cats, and primates usually live in wire cages. Most animals stay in their cages all the time except when they are being used in experiments.
Animal testing is often ineffective in predicting how products will work on people. Some estimates say up to 92% of tests passed on animals failed when tried on humans.
Animal testing that was outlawed in the UK was moved to the US.
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It's simply DISGUSTING. I find it quite horrible. So our rats aren't in metal cages, but plastic boxes? And then, they aren't even in boxes alone, but with OTHER rats doing the same experiments?
Primates, dogs, and cats? Stuck in WIRE CAGES?
And animal testing is INEFFECTIVE?
I'm sure there are some daredevils out there that are willing to test a product, right? So why force ANIMALS?
The stress, sterility and boredom causes some animals to develop neurotic behaviors such incessantly spinning in circles, rocking back and forth and even pulling out their own hair and biting their own skin. They shake and cower in fear whenever someone walks past their cages and their blood pressure spikes drastically. After enduring lives of pain, loneliness and terror, almost all of them will be killed.
Our rats spin in circles and try to eat themselves? Oh my god @_@
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So do YOU think the testing should first be tried on humans? Or animals?
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