Animal Testing

Introduction

As many as 115 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every

year. The taxpayers and consumers pay for such testing as pumping chemicals into rats'

stomachs, hacking muscle tissue from dogs' thighs and putting baby monkeys in isolation

chambers far from their mothers. There is no accurate count on the number of animals killed

every year because experimenters and the government have decided that mice and rats and

certain other animals don't even be counted. Research and testing of animals such has

chimpanzees, dogs, rats', andother such animals has determined that animals do need love,

affection, and families . However, they are constantly being exposed to unnecessary stress

through animal testing.

What the Animals are used for

Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from shampoo to new cancer drugs.

Almost every medical treatment has been tested on animals. Animals were also used to develop

anesthetics which is used to prevent human pain and suffering during surgery. Manufacturers that

seek to market new products like cosmetics, find that it is necessary to establish safe products so

they test on animals.

How they spend their Time

Animals in laboratories live their lives locked inside a cage without any control over their life.

They can't choose when or what they eat, how they will spend their time, whether or not they

will have a mating partner or young and who will it be. They spend their entire life like this, even

though they have committed

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no crime. This is how animals spend their lives in laboratories.

How chimpanzees live in the wild/Laboratories

Chimpanzees in their natural habitat, are never separated from their families and troops. They

spend hours together every day grooming each other and making soft nest for sleeping at night.

Chimpanzees are loving and protective parents and the babies live close to their mothers for

many years. In the labs, chimpanzees are caged alone. They have no families, no companions, no

grooming and no nest. They are only cold hard steel bars and loneliness that will go on for many

years. Most of the chimpanzees sink into depression and they eventually lose their minds.

Dogs and cats are deprived of exercise, affection and the homes that they long for with families

to care for them. Rabbits have no room to leap.

Diseases

Animals are infected with diseases that they would never normally contact. Tiny mice grow

tumors as large as their bodies, kittens are purposely blinded, rats' are made to suffer seizures.

Experimenters perform surgeries on animals, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines and

much more. Think of what it would be like for a human to go through this. Then they get

dumped back into to a cageusually without any pain killers. I feel that there is too many unhappy

animals inside these laboratories.

Why do they make them suffer ?

Why would anyone make hundreds or thousands of animals suffer? Nearly all of the scientists

who do research on animals are doing it because they hope that making a few experiences painful

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now will help prevent many from feeling pain later. In other words, they hope that a little pain

now will prevent a lot of pain later. There is not always little pain when these animals are being

tested on. Does animal testing work?

Animal testing helped to develop vaccines against diseases like rabies, measles, and T.B. But

animals