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Against Animal Testing

"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different." ~ Hippocrates 

"During the last 80 years, scientists experimenting on trillions of animals, came up with 900 ways of causing cancer in a mouse. . .but no cure for humans!" ~ J. F. Brailsford

Millions of animals—including dogs and cats just like the ones with whom you might share your home—are tormented in U.S. laboratories annually for cruel experiments. While this fact might have surprised you, here are the top five shocking animal experimentation facts that you should know, courtesy of PETA:
  1. More than 100 million animals are poisoned, burned, crippled, and abused in other ways in U.S. labs each year.
  2. No experiment is illegal, no matter how cruel, irrelevant to human health, redundant, or painful.
  3. Ninety five percent of animals used for experiments are excluded from the only federal law offering any sort of protection.
  4. Even when valid alternatives to animals are available, the law doesn't require that they be used.
  5. Ninety two percent of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they don't work or are dangerous.
Did you know that animal testing and experimentation leads to the use of animal byproducts in countless, often surprising products? Check out http://www.care2.com/greenliving/9-surprising-items-made-with-animal-ingredients.html to learn more.
Erica Settino, Copyright 2010. No part of this material may be used without written consent from the author.