There are countless similar stories in research facilities throughout the world.
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. Video footage from inside laboratories
often shows that animals cower in fear every time someone walks by their
cages. They do not know if they will be dragged from their prison cells for an
injection, blood withdrawal, a painful procedure or surgery, or death
(PETA 2003). Even those who take the extreme position that animals do
not have rights must realize that it is morally unacceptable to treat living,
helpless animals in such a cruel and detached manner. Animals in labs
spend years being dreadfully and heartlessly experimented on. Their entire
lives consist of confinement, fear, pain, and loneliness. Only in death are they finally free
The American Anti-Vivisection Society provides another example of cruel and unnecessary experimentation in which guinea pigs are burnt alive in scalding water in order to assess the effects of serious burns (“The Case Book of Experimentation…” 1988). During
various forms of cancer and tumor research, animals are also often given
tumors, sometimes as large as their bodies themselves (PETA 2003). At
the University of Oregon, "a researcher sewed kittens' eyes shut and
forced them to jump from a height onto a platform surrounded by water
so she could study the effects of sight deprivation on the brain. Another
example of the lack of importance of the animal's pain is evident through
the Draize eye irritancy test. In this cruel test, which has been used for
the past sixty years (Parascandola 1991), a rabbit is held securely in a
stock with its eyes forced open using special clips. A concentrated solution
of the chemical of interest is then dripped into the eyes of the rabbits and
the effects of the chemicals are studied over a three-day period. This testing often results in broken necks of rabbits who strain to get out of the stocks, not to mention the inflammation, ulcers, bleeding, and blinding that result from many of the chemicals. This type of research is often considered completely unnecessary as ophthalmologist Dr. Stephen Kaufmann of the New York University Medical Center explains that he “knows of no case in which an ophthalmologist has used Draize data to assist the care of a patient” (Hayhurst 2000). In the skin irritancy test, animals' fur is shaved off to make the skin more sensitive and corrosive chemicals are applied, without painkillers.
"All the arguments to prove man's superiority can not shatter this hard fact: In suffering, the animals are our equals."
ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION
“Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor animal experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” - Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual leader and philosopher
Hundreds of millions of dogs, cats, rats, mice, and primates are used and killed every year in the name of science. Many experiments are agonizing, unreliable, and pointless. Animals are dying in projects involving drug addiction, brain mapping, infectious diseases, and many other areas of “scientific curiosity” every minute of every day. Many people are unaware of the horrors that occur in these laboratories. It is a misconception to many that
animal research is about finding a cure to
cancer, or AIDS. Only about 3% of research is
medically related. For years they have already
cured cancer in mice, but since our make up is
different the findings do not work for humans.
Diseases that are artificially induced in animals
are never identical to those that occur
naturally in humans. It is estimated that
biomedical research uses nearly one hundred
million animals for research each year despite ample evidence that animal studies frequently provide inadequate and misleading results. Dogs, cats, mice, pigs, primates, and rabbits are all subject to painful research, which in reality is just curiosity driven.
A shocking undercover investigation by PETA at Columbia University uncovered very disturbing animal research. “Baboons were subjected to invasive surgeries and left to suffer and die in their cages without any painkillers, and monkeys were forced to endure surgical procedures in which metal pipes were implanted into their skulls for the sole purpose of inducing stress to study the connection between stress and women’s menstrual cycles. In another Columbia experiment, pregnant baboons were given large doses of nicotine and morphine, had backpacks full of instrumentation strapped to their backs, and were tethered inside metal cages for observation. Their babies underwent surgery while still in utero. One baboon lost 40 percent of her bodyweight and developed a severe bone infection that was left untreated.” (PETA) Visit www.columbiacruelty.com .Animal
Experimentation
"Unseen they Suffer, Unheard they Cry, In agony they Linger, in Loneliness they Die."
The experiment of “maternal deprivation” is still being carried out even after decades of repetitive experiments, despite obvious findings. Removed from their mother’s protection, baby monkeys are exposed to deliberately frightening situations such as the introduction of natural enemies like snakes, or electric shocks, so experimenters can observe their psychological breakdown. These primates’ develop stereotypical behaviors including incessant rocking and self-mutilation. This procedure is callous and evil. The testing lab primates, including our close relative the chimpanzee, may be "containerized" for days or weeks in restraint devices or for years in isolation chambers. Often, the animals cannot move their arms or legs and are hooked up to electrodes that record brain or muscle activity or deliver foot shocks for "misbehaviors". Animals are restrained for days in stereotaxic chairs to avoid the experimenter's inconvenience of having to handle them for procedures as simple as blood withdrawal. Chimpanzees inside SEMA, a federally fundedlaboratory, became insane after spending years in isolation chambers that allowed nothing but the continual hum of the air filtration system reaching them.
Click on link below to to view video of Covance labs
"All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life." Buddha
His name is Jeffery, to the researcher, he's monkey #19451. He hugs his leg all the time for comfort because he's so deprived of affection. He has been infected with AIDS.
The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But rather, Can they suffer?"
Click link below to watch The Test of a Civilization
"Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace." ~Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy of Civilization
Speaking Out For Animals, Inc
10335 Clarence Center Rd.
Clarence, NY 14031
Please, only support compainies that Do Not perform animal tests. Here is a link to Companies that Do Not Test, and companies that Do test.
You can also help by writing to medical schools and ask them to end their cruel experiments on animals, and switch to alternative methods.
Primates are confined to cages that allow them only enough space to stand up and lie down. Most labs make no effort to allow social interaction, grooming or other contact that is very vital to primates! Rarely, are any objects, or stimulations provided to help pass the time for our highly intelligent relatives. Can you imagine yourself living like that, with no chance of ever being free? Using monkeys as surrogate humans is never a good idea because stress of confinement is unnatural to the species, and the stress of capture, shipping, caging, and experimentation compromises their immune systems, and leads to psychological deterioration and neuroses causing inaccurate test results.
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