Animal Testing is Cruel

Animal testing is unethical and cruel to the animals. Animals feel too! When people use animal testing, they are torturing the animals with experiments often times unnecessary and hurtful to the animal being tested.

Some argue that animal testing does have its place - that even such tests that seem to have no reason but to torture the animal, do have a reason, and do improve science.

But what science is it to strap a monkey to a board, cut its back open without anesthetics, and sever out it's nerve endings (as done in the Silversprings case)? Both arms are paralyzed, and directly after this painful surgery, the monkey is then forced into a small cage. It can not pick up it's meager amount of food, and must slowly shuffle forward and lean their head down like a bird to eat with their rotten and infected teeth. The monkey is paralyzed, and forced to live with it's deadened limb. Many of these test subjects go crazy, and tear the fingers of the paralyzed limbs in the jagged metal of their cage doors. They are hurt, infected, hungry, paralyzed, and otherwise sick. Out of at least 20 monkeys in this experiment, almost all of them died.

Is that science?

Rabbits are tied up and nail polish and other cosmetic products are applied to their eyes to test if putting cosmetics in your eyes will hurt your eyes.

Is that science?

Monkeys are force fed drain cleaner, which burn away their insides of a pipe, to see if consuming drain cleaner will burn away your insides.

Is that science?

Cats are shot in the head to prove that being shot in the head impairs breathing.

Is that science?

Rats are put in a giant tub of water and drown to test if male or female rats can stay afloat longer.

Is that science?

Who cares what rat can stay afloat longer! What is the practical use of knowing which gender rat is more "floaty"? Is there a small difference? Do you have a good reason for doing this seemingly stupid and cruel experiment? If you do, then test it on HUMANS. Humans can swim, and humans can have lifeguards to pull them out if anything happens. But then again, you shouldn't, because you really have no scientific reasons to test this, other than for your amusement on seeing small rats flailing around in the water.

And why prove something that is already proven with COMMON SENSE? If you ♥♥♥♥♥ any living creature in the head, it will most likely die. And dieing tends to impair everything. Including breathing. If you apply chemicals to your eyes, or eat acidic, corroding drain cleaner, that's used to burn/melt away all the junk in the drains, then by common sense you'll know that eating this stuff probably isn't a good idea. Just put, "do not eat" on the label anyways, because even without testing, you should keep this toxic stuff away from younger kids. These tests are just crazy. You may as well slap yourself to see if slapping yourself hurts.

These "testing facilities" are more like concentration camps for animals. What exactly did that animal do to THEM, that gives them the right to hurt all these animals? For the Silversprings case, I'm not even entirely sure what was being tested. Brain maps? Reflexes? Death rate?

And often times these tests are even inaccurate. Sometimes things that apply to other animals do not apply to humans. For example, when people found toxic mold/dust spores sent in the mail, scientist decided to test to see if they really were toxic and harmful. They had animals inhale them, but found that you needed a very large amount to do any harm. Unfortunately, these spores have a much different - much deadlier - effect on humans.

These tests are unnecessary, cruel, and unethical. This is science, and science needs logic an reasoning. Does it make sense that shooting something in the head will hurt it's breathing? Does it make sense that swallowing drain cleaning will hurt your insides? And who cares about rats floating in water? Why even do these useless experiments?

In conclusion... say NO to Animal Testing!