Helpless Animals

Picture your cute little mouse you had as a young child. How you played with it, loved and cherished the bond. Now imagine 25 million animals just like your past pet, caged up living in laboratories and deliberately being made sick for weeks, months or years. The suffering these animals endure is unfathomable.  There have been substitutes to animal experimenting that has shown to be effective in advancing medical progress, cutting research costs, and eliminating animal cruelty in this manner.

Approximately 95% of the animals used for research aren’t given even the minimal protections of the Animal Welfare Act, which currently exists.  There are many organizations against the use of animals or at the very least to treat them humanly, such as the Human Society and PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals). Very few human diseases are seen in primates yet they are subjected to these disease. Disease are not the only use though, they are subjected to cosmetics, agricultural research, food trials, weapon testing, and car crash simulations.

If the average person seen this in person, they would demand that it stop NOW. That’s the main problem though. These laboratories are not known publically, and if they were would be flooded with people trying to get rid of them if they could just take a short stroll through the labs. Being exposed to what really happens behind those closed doors.

Primate Investigation by the Humane Society (warning graphic): http://video.humanesociety.org/video/801042208001