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=Stop Animal Testing=

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Imagine being put in a dark cage, with no control over the rest of your life. Not knowing when your going to eat, not having anywhere else to go, not knowing if your even going to live. This is how animals that are exposed to animal testing feel. They are locked in a dark cage, used for tests, then thrown back in. People should not be able to test on animals.

Millions of animals are being killed or injured due to animal testing every year. Scientist are taking animals such as rats, mice, pigs, cats, dogs, sheep, and monkeys and testing drugs and other medicine on them. The government is making it a law to practice certain medications on the animals. The lab animals are being addicted to drugs, being cut open, having holes drilled into their skulls, and some even having tubes forced down their throats. This puts animals through a very high amount of pain, and often leads to the death of an animal. This problem happens all over the world, but with your help we can stop it today.

In many universities around the country, first year students are testing on living dogs to practice surgery and anatomy. This is a matter of rights. Many people think animals don’t have rights, and hurting them isn’t always considered a crime. When something goes wrong in the lab or the medicine doesn’t work right and the animal dies, that's considered a murder. The person working on the animal should be blamed for taking the life of the animal, but in the society today animals don’t have rights. According to a survey taken in May of 2003, 75% of Americans do not think animals should have rights. Animals are like humans in many ways, this is why people test on them. They respond in human like ways to medicine and other drugs. Humans have rights, therefore animals, being like humans, should have the right to be free too.

Animal testing is cruel. Animals are being tested on care, food/beverages, and house hold cleaning products such as: Unilever, Clorox, Church & Dwight, and Johnson & Johnson. These test are NOT required by the law. Some medicine (cancer and heart disease) is required to be tested before using it on a person. The government allows scientist and medical techs to burn, shock, poison, stab, drown, make animals addicted to drugs, and have bad brain damage. After the animals go through all that cruelty, if they are still living, they are usually dumped back into their cage with nothing to help their pain.

1.13 million animals in the United States, 76, 001 are reported not having anything for their pain. In Canada 2.27 million animals are used for experiments, and 98, 633 are reported not having anything for their pain. In the United Kingdom 3.6 million animals are used in medical labs, 2.7 million with not medicine. This shows how many animals are used for animal testing around the world and in your country.

Health charities are giving some of their profit from fund raisers to animal testing labs. This allows people to get animals to test on, and to get medicine to use on the animals. The experiments are funding by the federal government using public’s tax dollars and by health charities. The American Cancer Society, Muscular Dystrophy Association, and March of Dimes are a few examples of people who give money to animal testing. Giving money to the animal testers is basically giving them money to kill an animal. If the animal is tested on and is still living when done, it usually has the disease, side effects, or scars for the rest of its life.

Many schools around the United States are getting animals such as mice, rats, frogs, rabbits, pigs, dogs, sheep, turtles, and fish and are using them for dissection in the classroom. This is also labeled as animal testing, even though most of the time the animal is dead. They are killing the animals and cutting them open, which is what animal testers do. Animals should not have to die for a test or any other reason.

Some people believe that animal testing is good. Doctors suggest testing medication on animals before humans to make sure that it will not harm them, but cure them. If you test on an animal it is said to be an approval that humans can use the product. Products like cancer and heart disease medicine have all been tested on animals before humans to make sure that they work. Like animals that have been forced to be diagnosed with cancer aren’t showing signs of being cured. That is why there is no medicine out there that can take cancer completely away. But taking innocent animals lives for the sake of seeing if a medicine works is simply not right.

This is a very important subject, especially in the government. People discuss topics like these almost everyday on weather we should stop animal testing or not. Many animals die from these experiments. Some medications are important to test before being used, but we don’t have to use animals for it. There’s many other things out there that can be used. Not testing on these animals would save money for health charities and save many animals lives. Millions of animals die every year. People don’t realize how many animals die to this cause. We need to put an end to animal testing. On many products you buy they kill animals to make it. You can help by buying make up or other products with a picture of a leaping bunny on them, that symbol shows that there was no animals harmed in the making of that product. All the little things you do to save the animals help. Buy leaping bunny products today.

By: Serena Lowe :)