Science
Imagine having your body left to science... while you’re still in it. Vivisection- misleading... costly... and cruel. Just a few years ago, every cosmetics company poisoned animals with lipstick, shampoo, hairspray or other ‘beauty’ products, Car manufacters pummelled monkeys’ heads with hydraulic arms to simulate crashes. Laboratory technicians killed a rabbit every time they tested a woman for pregnancy. These tests were thought to be ‘state of art’. Today, thanks to consumer activists and imaginative scientists, there are better, kinder methods.
But millions of mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, cats, dogs, primates, sheep, cows, pigs and other animals are still experimented on and killed in laboratories every year. Instead of developing more advanced scientific techniques, vivisectors infect animals with diseases that they would never contracts under normal circumstances. They force-feed and inject chemicals. They sever animals’ spines, break their bones and cement electrodes into their skulls. Military researchers sicken and wound animals with radiation, chemical agents and guns even though the effects of these weapons on humans are already well documented. Psychologists subject animals to maternal deprivation, drug and alcohol addiction and other torments.
59% of procedures are carried out without anaesthesia, although the experiments are likely to cause pain and suffering and the animal’s only legal protection is the weak, vague and poorly enforced Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act. Many crude experiments are duplicated again and again because there is no central information system that lists data from previous experiments. One thing people disregard is: animals do not suffer from the same diseases as we do and nor do they react to chemicals in the same way.
A few facts why animal experiments are unreliable:
Pencillin is toxic to guinea pigs.
Aspirin causes birth defects in most animals but not in people.
Paracetamol is toxic to cats.
Chimpanzees are essentially immune to HIV, malaria and hepatitis.
Animal experiments are unreliable.
Every year, millions of frogs, rats, cats, mice, and other animals suffer and are killed for dissection. Luckily, there are far better ways to learn biology than by torturing animals, damaging the environment, and teaching insensitivity, and it's becoming easier every day to avoid dissection.
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