1. Animal Testing is scientifically inaccurate in medical trials. "Acetaminophen, for example, is poisonous to cats, but is therapeutic in humans; penicillin is toxic in guinea pigs, but has been an invaluable tool in human medicine; morphine causes hyper-excitement in cats, but has a calming effect in human patients; and oral contraceptives prolong blood-clotting times in dogs, but increase a human's risk of developing blood clots. Many more such examples exist. Even within the same species, similar disparities can be found among different sexes, breeds, age and weight ranges, and ethnic backgrounds." -(aavs.org)
2. It's cruel. "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." - (downtoearth.org)
3. Animals aren't here for the purpose of being burned, injected, stapled, gassed, and forced to live in close quarters. Animals are NOT ours to use as property. They are supposed to be on fields, but instead live in gross cages, waiting out the painful days until the one fateful day where they WILL be killed and have suffered right up until their death.
4. Animal Testing is scientifically inaccurate in beauty trials. "When scientists study a chemical, they're often trying to figure out if it's safe for a person to be exposed to a very small amount of it for years at a time. After all, you don't eat a tube of toothpaste every morning and night; you use just a dab, and when you're done you spit it out. Similarly, you don't eat the chemicals used to make plastic food containers, but you care about the safety of those chemicals because small amounts may get into your leftovers. In other words, scientists are frequently trying to answer questions about the safety of long-term exposure to low levels of a substance—but it's impossible to study these long-term effects in animals, since most of them don't live that long, and toxic effects are usually rare. To try to stake the deck to see these toxic effects, scientists expose animals to much higher doses of chemicals than humans would ever experience – the top dose in experiments generally must show some signs of overdose. Plus, the scientists would like the information much more quickly than an animal's natural lifetime!"- (hsi.org)
5. It's harms the environment. These tests often use bio-hazardous chemicals that, when disposed of, hurt and pollute the environment.
6. It's a waste of valuable resources. Many of these animals don't even live long enough for these "scientists" to finish the experiments, due to all of the harmful ingredients injected into them. Picture a wounded kitten, running around the streets, starving, hurt, and hungry. Imagine he or she is continuously run over by a large truck, every single day. How long do you think this poor kitten would last? Not very long. This is very similar to how animal testing works. You can bruise someone or something over and over, but they're only going to last so long.
7. This goes against animal's basic moral rights, in which they are entitled to. "Tom Regan, a philosophy professor at North Carolina State University, states: "Animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment. . . .This inherent value is not respected when animals are reduced to being mere tools in a scientific experiment" (qtd. in Orlans 26). Animals and people are alike in many ways; they both feel, think, behave, and experience pain. Thus, animals should be treated with the same respect as humans. Yet animals' rights are violated when they are used in research because they are not given a choice. Animals are subjected to tests that are often painful or cause permanent damage or death, and they are never given the option of not participating in the experiment."-(lonestar.edu)
8. There are far better alternatives, which are more effective. "Scientists can now use laboratory models of human skin and eyes, created from human cells, to test the safety of ingredients and products such as mascara and shampoo—rather than testing them on rabbits, guinea pigs, mice or rats." - (hsi.org)
*These models of human skin and eyes compare much more to actual human skin than animals ever will.
9. This horrifying statistic."Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year." (dosomething.org)
10. Labs can get away with harming animals just because of their rodent status."Labs that use mice, rats, birds, reptiles and amphibians are exempted from the minimal protections under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA)." (dosomething.org)
11. It's Useless and a Time Waster"According to the Humane Society, registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals."-(dosomething.org)
12. It's lethal and separates families. "In tests of potential carcinogens, subjects are given a substance every day for 2 years. Others tests involve killing pregnant animals and testing their fetuses."-(dosomething.org)
ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL TESTS:
*all info from crueltyfreeinternational.org
Cell Cultures: Are miniature 3D structures of the human organs, made of cells. They can be used to study biological processes as well as disease progress and drug metabolism.
Computer Models: "CMs of the heart, lungs, kidneys, skin, digestive and musculoskeletal systems already exist"
Volunteer Studies: "Brain imaging machines that can 'see' inside the brain can be used to monitor the progression and treatment of brain disease. They can help researchers understand the causes by comparing with healthy volunteers."
"An innovative technique called microdosing can also be used in volunteers to measure how very small doses of potential new drugs behave in the human body. These microdoses are radio-labelled, injected into human volunteers and measured (usually in blood samples) using a very sensitive measuring device called an accelerator mass spectrometer."
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