- The Cons of Animal Testing!
- An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing.
- Animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water, sleep deprivation and prolonged periods of physical restraint.
- Animals endure chemicals being dripped into their eyes, injected into their bodies, forced up their nostrils or forced down their throats. They are addicted to drugs, forced to inhale/ingest toxic substances, subjected to maternal deprivation, deafened, blinded, burned, stapled, and infected with disease viruses.
- These treatments are exempt from anti-cruelty statutes, and worse yet, undercover investigations have exposed violations of animal welfare policies and cases of extreme negligence at labs and universities
- The FDA reports that 92 percent of drugs approved for testing in humans fail to receive approval for human use. This failure rate has increased from 86 percent in 1985, in spite of all the “advances and refinements” intended to make animal tests more accurate.
Youtube link in which describes the cruelty and inhumane nature of animal testing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJcPWHRf_g
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