Animal testing! Tests which allow scientists to force-feed chemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines and so much more, often without even giving pain killers to relieve the pain. Think of what it would be like to endure this much anguish and be given no more than as aspirin to relieve it!
Are you aware that each year millions of animals are poisoned and killed in laboratories across the world? Millions of animals are victims of painful unnecessary and inhumane tests to determine the “safety” of cosmetics and other household products. This number doesn't even include mice, rats, guinea pigs and other small creatures since most people don't even consider them important enough to count.
Now imagine yourselves living inside a closet with no control over any aspect of your life. You can't choose when and what you eat, how you will spend your time or even decide when the lights go on and off. Think about spending your entire life like that. Sadly this is the life for millions of animals such as baboons, chimps, rabbits, dogs and cats, mice and rats and so many more! It is a life of deprivation, misery, isolation and agony. Above all the deprivation and misery, there are the horrid experiments. Experiments that infect animals with diseases they would never normally contract. Tiny mice grow tumours the size of their bodies. Kittens and rabbits are purposely blinded and rats and baboons have induced seizures and strokes. How do they induce seizures and strokes you might ask? Simply by removing their left eyeball, clamping a critical blood vessel to their brains and administering experimental drugs.
You may or not be aware but many well-known companies test their products on animals before distributing them to the public. Mascara for one is first tested on animals before being put on the market. In these tests, rabbits' eyes are held open with metal clips where the substance is then placed in their eyes to record the damage done to the eye tissue. Ulceration, bleeding, deterioration and blindness are a few reactions to this test. Guess what this test gains? A measly label on the back of the package saying “Do not come in contact with eyes” or “Irritation may occur”. Well duh! Iams, a popular dog-food company also tests on animals. You're probably thinking, dog food tests, how bad can they be? Dogs have been force-fed vegetable oil, had chunks of muscle removed from their thighs and have been “de-barked” by a bloody procedure cutting their voice boxes out. As if they listen to their cries anyway.
Monkeys had metal pipes surgically implanted in their skulls for the sole purpose of inducing stress in order to study the connection between stress and women's menstrual cycles. One monkey, left alone to recover from the hideous implant surgery, was photographed with blood running down her face long after she had come out of anesthesia. The animal was given nothing but an aspirin after the anesthetics wore off.
Professor Charles R. Magel said “Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are like us'. Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals and the answer is: 'Because the animals are not like us'. Animal experimentation is based on logical contradiction.” Various studies have been conducted and have shown that because of vast physiological differences between the two species makes it near impossible for the reactions to drugs in animals equal the human reactions to the same drugs! The only difference between the two species is that humans can speak up for themselves. Animals don't have the ability to speak out and object to the terrorizing tests and experiments they are put through every single day. What gives us the right to abuse our power and take advantage of these poor creatures who can't defend themselves?
Products which are not tested on animals (or made from ingredients tested on animals) are proved to be just as efficient as the ones which are. So think about it, are the soaps, colognes and lip balms really that much more sweeter-smelling or shinier when they're tested on animals first? Does it truly make a difference? The research being done today that is animal friendly is humane, more accurate, less expensive and less time consuming. Experimenting on animals is not only preventing us from learning so much more information, it also continues to poison and kill millions of animals and in effect, millions of people every year.
This industry is fuelled by massive public funding and its people profit because animals who cannot defend themselves are legally (and sometimes illegally) imprisoned and exploited. I urge you the next time you buy cologne, mascara or any other product to read the label. Does it say NOT tested on animals? If it doesn't, ask yourselves, is it worth it?
Every time you blink your lushes lashes at that guy across the hall, a rabbit is blinded. Every time you spray your cologne a baboon yelps with inexplicable pain. Every dollar you spend on animal tested products, you're killing millions of innocent defenceless animals.
Are you aware that each year millions of animals are poisoned and killed in laboratories across the world? Millions of animals are victims of painful unnecessary and inhumane tests to determine the “safety” of cosmetics and other household products. This number doesn't even include mice, rats, guinea pigs and other small creatures since most people don't even consider them important enough to count.
Now imagine yourselves living inside a closet with no control over any aspect of your life. You can't choose when and what you eat, how you will spend your time or even decide when the lights go on and off. Think about spending your entire life like that. Sadly this is the life for millions of animals such as baboons, chimps, rabbits, dogs and cats, mice and rats and so many more! It is a life of deprivation, misery, isolation and agony. Above all the deprivation and misery, there are the horrid experiments. Experiments that infect animals with diseases they would never normally contract. Tiny mice grow tumours the size of their bodies. Kittens and rabbits are purposely blinded and rats and baboons have induced seizures and strokes. How do they induce seizures and strokes you might ask? Simply by removing their left eyeball, clamping a critical blood vessel to their brains and administering experimental drugs.
You may or not be aware but many well-known companies test their products on animals before distributing them to the public. Mascara for one is first tested on animals before being put on the market. In these tests, rabbits' eyes are held open with metal clips where the substance is then placed in their eyes to record the damage done to the eye tissue. Ulceration, bleeding, deterioration and blindness are a few reactions to this test. Guess what this test gains? A measly label on the back of the package saying “Do not come in contact with eyes” or “Irritation may occur”. Well duh! Iams, a popular dog-food company also tests on animals. You're probably thinking, dog food tests, how bad can they be? Dogs have been force-fed vegetable oil, had chunks of muscle removed from their thighs and have been “de-barked” by a bloody procedure cutting their voice boxes out. As if they listen to their cries anyway.
Monkeys had metal pipes surgically implanted in their skulls for the sole purpose of inducing stress in order to study the connection between stress and women's menstrual cycles. One monkey, left alone to recover from the hideous implant surgery, was photographed with blood running down her face long after she had come out of anesthesia. The animal was given nothing but an aspirin after the anesthetics wore off.
Professor Charles R. Magel said “Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are like us'. Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals and the answer is: 'Because the animals are not like us'. Animal experimentation is based on logical contradiction.” Various studies have been conducted and have shown that because of vast physiological differences between the two species makes it near impossible for the reactions to drugs in animals equal the human reactions to the same drugs! The only difference between the two species is that humans can speak up for themselves. Animals don't have the ability to speak out and object to the terrorizing tests and experiments they are put through every single day. What gives us the right to abuse our power and take advantage of these poor creatures who can't defend themselves?
Products which are not tested on animals (or made from ingredients tested on animals) are proved to be just as efficient as the ones which are. So think about it, are the soaps, colognes and lip balms really that much more sweeter-smelling or shinier when they're tested on animals first? Does it truly make a difference? The research being done today that is animal friendly is humane, more accurate, less expensive and less time consuming. Experimenting on animals is not only preventing us from learning so much more information, it also continues to poison and kill millions of animals and in effect, millions of people every year.
This industry is fuelled by massive public funding and its people profit because animals who cannot defend themselves are legally (and sometimes illegally) imprisoned and exploited. I urge you the next time you buy cologne, mascara or any other product to read the label. Does it say NOT tested on animals? If it doesn't, ask yourselves, is it worth it?
Every time you blink your lushes lashes at that guy across the hall, a rabbit is blinded. Every time you spray your cologne a baboon yelps with inexplicable pain. Every dollar you spend on animal tested products, you're killing millions of innocent defenceless animals.
