Did you know?
In the United States:
(Photo: Novartis AG)
- Most animals in laboratories are not legally protected.
- There aren’t nearly enough inspectors to properly inspect research facilities.
- Most inspectors aren’t empowered to do anything consequential about violations.
- Many labs pass inspection even where appalling legal violations occur.
- Alternatives to animal testing are more effective, more reliable, and more humane.
(Photo: PETA)
- Instances of animal cruelty in laboratory testing are prolific and commonplace. Animals in labs are routinely mutilated and subjected to physical and psychological torment every day of their lives. Animals are frequently restrained and cut open without painkillers. Much of this torture is legal.
- Legal tests include burning, poisoning, starving, forced smoking, mutilating, blinding, electrocuting, drowning, and dissecting without painkillers. For decades, cats, dogs, primates, birds, rodents, horses, goats, pigs, and other animals have been experimented on with these measures.
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Reblogged this on Ann Novek–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors.
If we can’t show compassion towards beings lesser than ourselves, who just want love and care, what hope do we harbor as a species?
And let’s not forget about the poor macque (sp?) monkey that was scalded to death because he was inexplicably still inside the cage as it was sent through the “dishwasher” they use to sterilize the cages. Imagine?
You have to wonder about the mindset of the person(s) working in vivisection. You couldn’t pay be a billion dollars a year to do that job.