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ANIMAL SUFFERING IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE
The vast majority of painful animal experimentation is scientifically
unnecessary, medically unreliable, shockingly cruel, crude, cumbersome,
expensive and has no relation at all to human survival or the elimination of
human disease! Every year millions of research animals are killed using tax and
consumer dollars testing new products like cosmetics, perfumes and household
products, everything from detergents to floor wax.
Regardless, traditional product testing and experimentation on animals does
not always keep unsafe products off the market. Animal reactions may be grossly
distorted and misleading possibly resulting in human suffering when so-called
proven safe drugs and products get taken off the market following harmful or
fatal side effects in humans. Research labs may seldom consider alternative
research techniques even though new technologies exist that have been proven to
be far cheaper, more exact, more humane and more closely able to duplicate human
cells and tissues than anything ever deducted from animal research experiments!
Not all research animals are pigs, cows, mice, guinea pigs and other
wildlife. Unfortunately, your pet dog or cat ending up at a local animal
shelter could also become a victim of cruel animal experimentation because local
"pound seizure" laws force unwilling animal shelters to turn over thousands of
lost dogs and cats to research labs! All animals everywhere suffer pain,
loneliness, fear and confusion.
Of course, apologists for animal abuse, and those who may profit from it,
continue trying to convince the public that animal pain and cruelty is a small
price to pay "in the name of science" even though animal physiologies differ
from each other and from humans too. Remember, there is no restriction
whatsoever on what experimenters may do to animals once university, federally
funded and privately funded researchers get the animals behind closed doors!
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS (PETA)
JANUARY 2004
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