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Cruelty in Animal Form
====The Animal Protection Institute of America estimates 3 lab animals die every second in the U.S. alone. Animal testing is a real problem that is happening in many places in our world today. This animal cruelty is the wrong way to go about making medical discoveries. Rats and mice are the animals most commonly used in animals testing, but other species endure the pain of medical experiments. Animal testing is cruel, wrong, and unjust.====

====All over the world animals are being tested in medical experiments. These tests are supposed to be designed to make medical discoveries, help human life, and show how the body works. Many labs all over are keeping animals to be tested on. The P.E.T.A. (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and other animal rights activists are protesting the work of experimentation on animals. Animal testing is very wrong and should not happen anywhere.====

====One reason animals shouldn’t be tested on is because animals have just as many feelings as humans do. Because of some recent laws, scientists now have to report the number of animals in pain in their labs. Most underreport, not deliberately, they just don’t realize how many animals are in pain. Many activists are worried only of the actual experiment animals are involved in. The truth is some animals just sit in their cages for days, weeks, months, and even years, until they are “needed”. Some animals get put to death purposefully to see the effects on the body and the outcome. The outcome is very obvious...death. Animals can feel the hurt and pain medical experiments put on them.====

====Animals are innocent creatures that cannot speak for themselves. Just because they can’t talk doesn’t mean scientists, or anyone, should take advantage of them. The animals used in medical experiments are taken from shelters, pounds, and anywhere consent isn’t needed. Scientists can just walk into shelters and pounds, and animals will just be handed to them. Before a law had been passed, animals had to stay in cages much too small for them, in which they had to sit until being used. These animals were undoubtedly uncomfortable but they can’t say or do anything about it. Even when animals are used for a certain experiment they cant say anything to try to object and some are even strapped down during experimentation so they don’t cause trouble. Although animals are not created in labs, they can and are bred to possess certain characteristics. Innocence is all over these animals and they should not be taken advantage of.====

====There are some similar characteristics between animals and humans but animals may not react in the same way that a human would. Animal testing is used for the purpose to make sure things are safe for humans, but after an animal experiment is run they have to run another test on humans, too. Many different animals and even species are tested for the same product. All types of body parts are tested on in animals. Although there may be some similar body parts does not mean the reactions between the two will be the same. Some tests run on animals have had to be recalled because they are not healthy for the human population. This means the tests, therefore animal lives, are worthless. Over 50% of newly approved drugs/medicines cause more serious side effects than expected. Even after information has already been discovered animals get retested on. One scientist/animal rights activist even said, “Many scientists build their careers on animals experiments and forget that it is human disease that needs to be studied.” Humans can have a very different reaction to medicines than animals do.====

====Some people believe that animal testing is a fact of science and is needed for life today. Although this is okay for them to believe there are many other alternatives to animals that could be used today. In vitro experiments use animal or human cells, tissues, and organs. These types of experiments are designed to demolish most of the world’s animal testing. Also they can be more sophisticated, specific, and quicker than animal testing. For example, animal tests can take 3-8 years while in vitro experiments take only a few days. Government funding is wasted away on some very unnecessary animal experiments. Animal testing is very expensive and uses up about $6-8 billion of government money every year. All of this government money doesn’t have to be wasted on experiments that have a cheaper and more cost-effective alternative. Something must be done to save these innocent animals.====

====Millions of animals die every year in medical experiments. You can help protect these lab animals by joining a protest, or keeping medical experiments out of your areas. There are many types of ways that you can help to keep animal testing at least to a minimum. Try to spread your beliefs on how medical testing can affect our world today. Many people feel very strongly that animal experimentation should not happen. Animals have feelings just as humans do, can’t speak for themselves, and sometimes there lives are even wasted for medical experimentation. Let’s join together and help eliminate animal testing!====