Take your time and educate yourself and share what you learn with others: family members, friends, neighboors even strangers. Learn what goes on behind the dark closed doors of testing laboratories, fur farms, kill shelters, slaughter houses, etc.... Our animal brothers and sisters are not ours to torture, test on, skin, mistreat, abuse, neglect or kill. Do Not be Afraid Speak out for the animals you are their voice, And if you see or come across any Animal/s in need of help ( Abused, Neglected, Homeless, Chained or Caiged ) you rescue him/her/them goddammit and Don't Let anything get in your Way.!!!
Never Forget Who You're Fighting For.!!!
*The Meaning Of Vivisection*
Vivisection is the cutting into or dissecting of a live animal. Every day inside the walls of Huntingdon Life Sciences ( HLS ) and Other Animal Testing Laboratories including Cruel Laboratories Universities across the United States and The World Billions of non-human animals have been burnt, crushed, sliced, electrocuted, poisoned with toxic chemicals, and psychologically tormented in the name of scientific curiosity. What have we learned from all of this suffering? That animal research is inherently unethical, inevitably wasteful, and wholly unreliable. The U.S. squanders approximately $18 billion per year on animal experiments, much of which is funded by taxpayers, even though alternatives are less expensive and can be used repeatedly. And what do we get for our dollars? "Too much suffering for too little knowledge.These are the Faces We are All Fighting For.
*Who is Experimented On.?*
Many Species of Animals fall Victim to Suffering and misery Inside Laboratories Monkeys, Pigs, Puppies, Kittens, Hamsters, Rabbits, Frogs, Squirrels, Baboons, Horses, Guinea pigs, Mice, Sheep, Birds, Iguanas, Rats, Chimpanzees, Dogs, Cats, Woodchucks, Gerbils, Ferrets, Cows, and Others, Amounting to approximately 28 million lives that are Experimented, Tortured, Cut Open while still Awake and Killed each year in the U.S. alone.
*Where The Animals Come From*
There are approximately 100,000 primates in U.S. laboratories, whom were either bred or trapped in the wild. Some captive primates are used for breeding; most are used in painful experiments. In the U.S., breeding facilities are largely funded by our government, i.e. taxpayers money. Wild-caught primates are imported by commercial dealers. These individuals buy trapped animals, box them in small crates with little to no food or water, and cargo ship them to other countries; many die in the process.
Vivisection laboratories commonly buy animals from breeders. Some breeding companies advertise in research magazines, offering animals specifically bred, quiet and friendly, claiming to weed out any undesirable stock. Obviously these bred animals have never known affection or peace, but have begun their lives in cramped cages with indifferent and sometimes cruel caretakers. Taken away from their mothers, confused and afraid, they are crated and transported to the laboratories, where their suffering will magnify until they are killed.
Animals are sometimes secured from shelters. This is called pound seizure and is promoted by vivisection advocates as an efficient manner of using animals who would have been killed anyway. These homeless animalsusually dogs, cats, puppies and kittenshave already been betrayed by humans. To claim them for experiments and certain death is a double betrayal. Animals at shelters may have once been loving family members, and they all certainly deserve such a life. There is no federal law regarding pound seizure, and three states actually require it in their government-run facilities. New Jersey is one of thirteen states where pound seizure is illegal.
Animals are also bought from individuals known as Class B dealers. These dealers buy animals for the purpose of selling them to laboratories. Class B dealers acquire animals from random sources, such as answering Free to Good Home ads, picking up strays and operating animal auctions, in which they arrange and negotiate animal sales and transport. They may also drive through neighborhoods and steal unattended dogs and cats.
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*Life as a Test Subject*
Even in the absence of the actual experiments, these animals lives are still nightmarish. They spend their short lives in small, locked cages with the bare minimum of food and water. Thats as good as it gets--some arent even afforded clean water or adequate food. Many lab technicians have observed empty water and food dishes, but only a percentage of them report such neglect.
*What Can You Do*
In order to effectively help animals in laboratories, kill shelters, auctions, fur farms and cruel shelters like animal control, you must remember to seek nothing less than their release and freedom. If we settle for improvements such as bigger cages or better breeding conditions, their liberation will be that much harder to obtain. They do not belong in laboratories or auctions or kill shelters in the first place. In helping them, we must remember our goal: the animals absolute freedom.
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* Tests Performed On Animals*
In the Lethal Dose:50 test (LD:50), mice, hamsters and other animals like Dogs, cats, monkeys, are force fed household cleansers, Make up (or personal care items). A feeding syringe is brusquely forced down the animals throats, injecting a chemical ingredient of the cleanser, or the cleanser itself, into their stomachs. These animals endure ulcerations, vomiting, bleeding, convulsions, and death. This forced feeding increases in amount until half of them die. Notes are made as to the quantity needed to kill 50% of the animals, then the survivors are killed. No harmful effects are noted or measured, only the animals lethal dose which is not much information. Scientists mistakenly perceive these results as determinant of how much of the product a human can safely ingest.
*Draize Eye Irritancy Test*
In the Draize Eye Irritancy test, rabbits, Cats, Dogs Monkeys are immobilized by their necks and have a chemical constituent of shampoo Make up, or a concentrated form of the shampoo itself (or toilet cleaner, body lotion, etc.), put directly into their eyes. Unlike humans, rabbits have insufficient tear ducts, so the shampoo doesnt get washed away naturally. Instead it sits in the eye, causing massive injury and suffering. The rabbits try so hard to be able to reach their eyes that they often break their backs with their immense escape efforts. An individual experiment can last for weeks, and no pain relief is given to the rabbits, as it would interfere with the results. Observations are noted subjectively, with no determined scale or range, then extrapolated onto the human population. What one scientist describes as mild irriation another may describe as severe. Not very scientific. The surviving animals are killed. However, no scientist or product manufacturing company can accurately predict a human eyes response to the product based on the Draize test.
*Inhalation Experiments*
In inhalation experiments, dogs, cats, guinea pigs and other animals are locked in small, airtight chambers, which are then filled with concentrated hairspray fumes (or mildew remover fumes, cologne fumes, etc.). Sometimes they have tight masks secured to their faces and filled with the vapors. The frightened, confused animals are forced to breath these chemicals, whimpering and seeking an escape from the toxic vapors. They are then locked up and observed. These animals suffer from pain, vomiting, bleeding, convulsions, and death. Once again, no pain relief is given as it would interfere with the results. The survivors are then killed, and results mistakingly generalized onto the human population.
*Skin Irritancy Experiments*
In skin irritancy experiments, animals, usually rabbits, dogs, cats, gerbils and monkeys, have their outer layers of skin removed so that toilet cleaner (or aftershave, hair dye, etc.) can be rubbed directly into their abrasions. These animals suffer ulcerations, bleeding, burning, and indescribable pain from these procedures as the substance eats away at their skin . Reactions are not treated to provide pain relief, only coldly studied. Once the observations are noted, the animals are killed. Once more the experimenters and manufacturing company feel a false confidence, believing they understand human skin reactions to their product.
If you think Animal Experiments are Necessary Consider The Following:
* Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever seen in animals. Over 98% never are.
* At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in lab animals. They are allowed because it is admitted that animal tests are not relevant.
* When asked if they agreed that animal experimentation can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans, 88% of doctors agreed.
* Rats are 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer in humans. Flipping a coin would be more accurate.
* According to animal tests lemon juice is deadly poison, but arsenic, hemlock and botulin are safe.
* 40% of patients suffer side effects as a result of prescription treatment.
* Over 200,000 medicines have been released most of which are now withdrawn. According to the World Health Organisation, 240 medicines are essential.
* Thousands of drugs passed safe in animals have been withdrawn or banned due to their effect on human health.
* Aspirin fails animal tests, as do digitalis (heart drug), cancer treatments, insulin (causes animal birth defects), penicillin and other safe medicines. They would be banned if results from animal experimentation were accurate.
* When the producers of thalidomide were taken to court, they were aquitted after numerous experts agreed animal tests could not be relied on for human medicine.
* At least 450 methods exist with which we can replace animal experiments.
* Morphine puts humans asleep but excites cats.
* 95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately disgarded as useless or dangerous to humans.
* One is six patients in hospital are there because the drug they have taken had been passed safe for us on humans after animal tests.
* Worldwide, at least 22 animals die every second in labs. In the UK one animal dies every five seconds.
* The contraceptive pill causes blood clots in humans but it had the opposite effect in dogs.
* We use aspirin for aches and pains. It causes birth defects mice, rabbits and rats.
* Researchers refused to believe that benzene could cause cancer in humans because it failed to in animal tests.
* Dogs failed to predict heart problems caused by the cardiovascular drugs encainide and flecainide, which led to an estimated 3,000 deaths in the USA.
* Heart by pass surgery was put on hold for years because it didnt work on dogs.
* If we had relied on animal tests we would still believe that humans dont need vitamin C, that smoking doesnt cause cause cancer and alcohol doesnt cause liver damage.
* It was denied for decades that asbestos caused disease in humans because it didnt in animals.
* Polio researchers were mislead for years about how we catch the disease because they had experimented on monkeys.
* As one researcher points out, the ultimate dilemma with any animal model of human disease is that it can never reflect the human situation with complete accuracy."
*Now Remember This*
Vivisection is a Lie it Kills People and animals. Everytime you BUY Animal Tested Products Such as Household Products, Household Cleaners , Cosmetics, Lotions, etc.. you are Making Animals Suffer All Around This World.
*Animals in the FUR Industry*
*Inside the Fur Industry*
Factory Farms, Eighty-five percent of the fur industrys skins come from animals living captive on fur factory farms.(1) These farms can hold thousands of animals, and the practices used to farm them is remarkably uniform around the globe. As with other intensive-confinement animal farms, the methods used on fur factory farms are designed to maximize profits, always at the expense of the animals.
*Painful and Short Lives*
The most farmed fur-bearing animal is the mink, followed by the fox. Chinchillas, lynxes, and even hamsters are also farmed for their fur.(2) Sixty-four percent of fur farms are in Northern Europe, 11 percent are in North America, and the rest are dispersed throughout the world, in countries such as Argentina and Russia.(3) Mink farmers usually breed female minks once a year. There are about three or four surviving kits for each litter, and they are killed when they are about half a year old, depending on what country they are in, after the first hard freeze. Minks used for breeding are kept for four to five years.(4) The animalshoused in unbearably small cageslive with fear, stress, disease, parasites, and other physical and psychological hardships, all for the sake of a global industry that makes billions of dollars annually.
Rabbits are slaughtered by the millions for meat, particularly in China, Italy, and Spain. Once considered a mere byproduct of this consumption, the rabbit fur industry demands the thicker pelt of an older animal (meat rabbits are killed at the age of 10 to 12 weeks). The United Nations reports that few skins are now retrieved from slaughterhouses, and countries such as France are killing as many as 70 million rabbits a year for fur, used in clothing, as lures in flyfishing, and for trim on craft items.
*Life on the ?Ranch?*
To cut costs, fur farmers pack animals into small cages, preventing them from taking more than a few steps back and forth. This crowding and confinement is especially distressing to minkssolitary animals who may occupy as much as 2,500 acres of wetland habitat in the wild.(6) The anguish of life in a cage leads minks to self-mutilatebiting at their skin, tails, and feetand frantically pace and circle endlessly. Zoologists at Oxford University who studied captive minks found that despite generations of being bred for fur, minks have not been domesticated and suffer greatly in captivity, especially if they are not given the opportunity to swim.(7) Foxes, raccoons, and other animals suffer equally and have been found to cannibalize each other as a reaction to their crowded confinement.
Animals on fur factory farms are fed meat byproducts considered unfit for human consumption. Water is provided by a nipple system which often freezes in the winter or may fail because of human error.
