The Truth about Animal Experimentation
The Truth About Animal Experimentation
Millions of animals are used in scientific and medical research, including mice, rats,
rabbits, primates, cats, dogs and other animals. They are locked inside cold barren cages in
laboratories across the country. Unfortunately all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next
terrifying and painful procedures that will be performed on them. More than 100 million animals
every year suffer and dies in cruel chemical, drug, food and cosmetic tests, and curiosity-driven
medical experiments (PETA). The Federal government and many health charities waste
precious dollars from tax payers and generous donors on cruel and misleading experiments, even
if a product harms animals, it can still be marketed to you. There is a growing movement of
healthcare professionals including doctors, scientists, and educated members of the public who
are opposed to non-human animal-based experimentation on specifically medical and scientific
grounds. They argue that animal research is based on a false premise, that results obtained
through animal experimentation can be applied to the human body (Whitecoatwelfare).
To test cosmetics, household cleaners, and other consumer products, hundreds of
thousands of animals are poisoned, blinded, and killed by cruel corporations. Mice and rats are
force-fed pesticides, and rabbits have corrosive chemicals rubbed into their skin and eyes. U.S.
law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to
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drugs, and brain-damaged. No experiment, no matter how painful or trivial, is prohibited and
pain-killers are not required. Even when alternatives to the use of animals are available, the law
does not require that they be used and often they are not. Animals are infected with diseases that
they would never normally contract, tiny mice grow tumors as large as their own bodies,
Millions of animals are used in scientific and medical research, including mice, rats,
rabbits, primates, cats, dogs and other animals. They are locked inside cold barren cages in
laboratories across the country. Unfortunately all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next
terrifying and painful procedures that will be performed on them. More than 100 million animals
every year suffer and dies in cruel chemical, drug, food and cosmetic tests, and curiosity-driven
medical experiments (PETA). The Federal government and many health charities waste
precious dollars from tax payers and generous donors on cruel and misleading experiments, even
if a product harms animals, it can still be marketed to you. There is a growing movement of
healthcare professionals including doctors, scientists, and educated members of the public who
are opposed to non-human animal-based experimentation on specifically medical and scientific
grounds. They argue that animal research is based on a false premise, that results obtained
through animal experimentation can be applied to the human body (Whitecoatwelfare).
To test cosmetics, household cleaners, and other consumer products, hundreds of
thousands of animals are poisoned, blinded, and killed by cruel corporations. Mice and rats are
force-fed pesticides, and rabbits have corrosive chemicals rubbed into their skin and eyes. U.S.
law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to
Camacho 2
drugs, and brain-damaged. No experiment, no matter how painful or trivial, is prohibited and
pain-killers are not required. Even when alternatives to the use of animals are available, the law
does not require that they be used and often they are not. Animals are infected with diseases that
they would never normally contract, tiny mice grow tumors as large as their own bodies,