Animal testing is an extremely cruel practice.
To measure severe burns on live tissue, a pet is burned alive with a flame-thrower until the charred flesh can be removed in large pieces from while the animal is still alive.
An experiment to study head trauma requires a pet’s head to be strapped down and receive high impact blows to the head resulting in severe brain damage.
To demonstrate there is no difference in eye protein levels of the site deprived, pet’s eyelids are sewn shut then later compared to normal protein levels.
Animal testing costs the American public over $136 billion annually. Animal testing is costing your family more than $300 dollars a year. Alternatives cost a significantly less and the results are far more accurate.
Animal testing is not required by law and is not necessary for the sake of human health.
Humans and animals are different in numerous ways. Many approved for human use based on animal studies have been taken off the market at a later date because of side effects that weren’t shown in animal tests. More than 100,000 people have been hospitalized and later died from ly reactions to medications in 1994 that were not predicted by animal tests.
Here are some other examples of animal testing in failure:
*Many patients who were administered the general anesthetic Methoxyflurane lost function of their kidneys because animal experiments failed to reveal possible kidney toxicity.
*The arthritis medication Flosint proved to humans after passing tests on rats, monkeys, and dogs.
*Opren, a cough medication tested successfully on monkeys and other animals, killed 61 people and caused severe reactions in thousands of others.
*Antidepressant Zelmid tested on rats and dogs with no problems, caused severe neurological problems in humans.
*After being tested on numerous animals, Practolol caused blindness in 78 people and killed 23 others.
There are a lot of other examples of animal testing failure.
Drugs that pass animal tests end up harming or humans about 61% of the time.
Don’t you dare try to tell me that animal tests are necessary to save lives, because cosmetic companies perform more then half of all animal tests. Yes, I really need makeup to continue my existence.
Between 25 and 50 billion animals are meaninglessly killed in laboratories each year.
So come on people, have a heart!
