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ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
Hundreds of millions of nonhuman animals are used as resources or research models every year in experimentation in universities and laboratories throughout the world. Rats and mice, hamsters, rabbits, gerbils, dogs, cats, pigs, cows, sheep, reptiles, trout, Rhesus Macaques, a diversity of bird species and many others suffer our experiments of biology, biochemistry, physiology and psychology.
We inoculate them with viruses, alter their DNA, impregnate them and kill the pregnant mothers so we can study their fetuses, we submit them to starvation or electric shocks to test their resistance, burn them alive, apply irritants to their eyes and skin, we block their glands, force them to inhale toxic substances, provoke paralysis, submit them to radiation and extreme temperatures.
Ethics
Of all these experiments, those considered most trivial (cosmetics testing for example) tend to be the main targets of criticism, whilst medical experiments tend to go unquestioned by the public due to the benefits the animal experimenters -claim- are vital for human animals, even though there is not one shred of evidence from them to back their claims up. Nevertheless, all forms of animal experimentation are based on an unfair ideal: the non-equal consideration of the interests and desires of the nonhuman animals involved.
Just like us, they are sentient and the emotions and sensations they feel, life matters to them just as much as ours do to us. Like us, they do not want to die and want to enjoy a free life. Using non-consenting, non-human animals for experiments to acquire vaccines or cures for humans is just as arbitrary as would be using a certain group of humans (for example white people) to find cures for a different race. The colour of our skin or our eyes, our gender, the species we belong to, are all irrelevant characteristics when we speak of bearing in mind anothers interests in avoiding suffering and enjoying their life. All that is relevant here is the possession of such interests, independent of race, gender, intelligence or the species an individual belongs to.
NEARLY 4 MILLION ANIMALS ARE USED
IN EXPERIMENTS EVERY YEAR IN THE UK
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Opposition of vested interest groups
There is a wealth of scientific evidence and supporting theory verifying the inefficacy of the practice of using animals as predictive models in drug and disease response. Yet the practice continues. Why? The reasons are many and varied, and they have little if anything to do with science.
The animal-based research engine is fueled by the same forces of human nature that have harmed people since the dawn of time: ignorance, greed, ego, self-preservation and fear. Add to that inertia and blind obedience to the system, and you have the perfect formula for keeping this multi-billion-dollar industry thriving. Read More
AROUND 50 BILLION POUNDS GOES INTO THE LIFE SCIENCE SECTOR EVERY YEAR IN THE UK
THERE IS A REASON YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW MUCH
ABOUT ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS...
No matter where you look, there is another reason to end the scientific farce that is vivisection. Those not moved by the moral argument that it is simply wrong to experiment on animals, should be moved by the fact that vivisection and the results are scientifically invalid. And those not moved by morality or scientific integrity should be moved by the fact we simply cannot afford to waste any more Billions of money.
They do not want you to know...
Dr Andre Menache
The Science
In the 65 years since the animal testing laws were introduced, scientific research has revolutionised our understanding of human biology and how it differs from other species. As a result of what we now know about the human body, the consequences of these 65 year old safety laws mandating animal tests, are not just that they have become outdated but are in fact recklessly and negligently exposing thousands of the population to the risk of death by their own medication (197,000 Adverse Drug Reaction deaths a year in Europe)
The solution is quite simple. Our government and health authorities must remove the legal requirement for animal tests and replace them with test methods that are relevant to humans. And the sooner the better, for human health and animal welfare.
Ray Greek MD talks science
