The Human Condition: Society has Created a Monster
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The Human Condition: Society has Created a Monster
With all movements involving the rights of others, humans are very resistant to change. Animal rights go back as far as the eighteen hundreds, but there are still disagreements on the ways animals are being treated today.Humans inflict cruelty on animals during experiments, sometimes even jokingly.Humans also do not want to take the step forward to make the change in the ethical treatment of animals, even though we, as humans, have the reasoning and resources to do it.Humans view animals as an inferior species as an excuse to perform these malicious treatments.The human condition is evident towards the mistreatment of animals because we have invented the idea that we are superior in comparison to animals, making us no longer rely on our instincts, creating well thought out and calculated actions when we inflict pain on animals.
In May 1984, an animal rights group called Animal Liberation Front (ALF) raided a research lab in the ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />University of Pennsylvania. ALF stole more than 60 hours of videotapes of experiments of head injuries on baboons. The raiders had turned over the tapes to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) (Sperling, p. 204). PETA created a short video, Unnecessary Fuss, edited from the original tapes and released it to the media.The tapes made by the researchers showed baboons not under anesthesia. That had their heads cemented into a machine which delivered blows one thousand times greater than the force of gravity. The baboons were tied to the table by canvas straps and struggled to free themselves. It is obvious that the animals are conscious while the tests are being performed. The tapes also show the researchers making monstrous jokes and laughing at the baboons.
The researchers also taped non-sterile surgeries of baboons that were not fully anesthetized. In one surgery, the researcher only wore gloves, no gown or mask, and set the operating tools on the baboon's unshaven chest. He even dropped a tool on the floor, picked it up and continued on with the surgery. Researchers also smoked continuously in the lab – before, during, and after the experiments. Smoking in the lab not only violates the law of not smoking where bottled oxygen and nitrous oxide were being used, it was also not allowed because it can affect the results of the tests. According to the researchers themselves, the lab was not very clean. The ventilation system was "spewing out dust" and one of the pens had "a months-worth of urine" in it.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided the funding for the experiments. Both the NIH and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) tried to get complete copies of the research. However, PETA refused to release the tapes. Eventually, PETA did give the USDA copies of some of the tapes. Then the USDA gave them to the NIH, who started an investigation. In June 1985, NIH concluded that the information gathered was useful to humans and advancements had been made due to these experiments. They announced they would continue to give grant money to the lab. (Sperling, p. 205)
PETA reacted immediately, staging a four day sit-in outside of the National Institutes of Health. On July 18, 1985, Margret Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, suspended all funding for the lab. It had been found that the lab was not in compliance with NIH and the USDA gave them a $4,000 fine. (Sperling, p. 205)
Although ALF has staged many raids, the one at University of Pennsylvania is the most well known. The information gathered by the ALF members and PETA's campaign led to the closing of the lab. This was the first time that information gathered from an illegal break-in had been used to change animal welfare laws. It was also the first time that congress had gotten involved in who the NIH grants money to. (Sperling, p. 205-206)
There are only a few examples of efforts toward animal rights prior to the mid-eighteen hundreds. There were no organized attempts at protecting animals. Most activists before this time acted individually, choosing to treat animals with kindness and compassion. Pythagoras and Leonardo da Vinci were both known to purchase caged birds and release them. However, some advocates did speak up for animals. For example, Pope Pius V issued a decree against bullfighting in 1567. (Silverstein, p. 29)
During the eighteen hundreds in England, people began to consider the rights of animals. In 1822 a law for the protection of animals was enacted. The same year the Martin's act was passed, which outlawed cruelty toward cattle. Before this other laws had been introduced but never enacted. Even though these bills had not passed, it caused people to question animal cruelty. (Silverstein, p. 31)
Two years later, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) was created as well as other activist groups. The SPCA was formed to enforce the new law. This group, known as the first organization to protect animals, began the growth of the animal welfare movement. (Silverstein, p. 31)
In the beginning, the animal welfare laws primarily only protected domesticated animals from cruelty. However, in the 1860's, the anti-vivisection movement began. During this time people began to split into two separate groups. One group wanted to minimize suffering in laboratory animals. The other group wanted to eliminate all animal cruelty. Because of this movement, a law protecting laboratory animals was passed in 1876. (Silverstein, p. 31)
Animal welfare was not a major concern in the United States. During the 1860's, animal welfare was brought over from England by Henry Bergh. Bergh helped New York state to pass a law against animal cruelty in 1866. The law stated anyone found guilty of neglect, injure, torture, or maliciously kill an animal would face a misdemeanor. The legislature also formed the first animal welfare group in America, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), led by Bergh. (Silverstein, p. 31-32)
Similar to England, the ASPCA focused on domesticated animals in the beginning. However, the organizations were located in cities where cats and dogs were the majority. Regulating the welfare of animals in rural areas would have been more expensive and time consuming. Due to these reasons, the focus of the ASPCA changed. (Silverstein, p. 32)
In 1975, Peter Singer published Animal Liberation, which led to the modern animal rights movement. Singer believed that animals should be granted rights. During the 1980's, the animal rights movement grew. There was conflict between those involved in animal rights and the laws passed under the animal welfare movement. Because of these conflicts, two groups had formed. (Silverstein, p. 32-32)
The animal welfare groups focused on companion animals. They did not have protection for farm animals, game, or laboratory animals. Their philosophy was that animals should be protected and treated with compassion, but animals have no rights. (Silverstein, p. 33)
The animal rights movement's goal is to eliminate animal exploitation in all forms. Simply lessening the suffering or improving conditions of an animal's life was not enough. The animal rights supporters believe that animals should not have to suffer for human pleasures. The desires for meat, leather, fur, sport, or entertainment do not justify the act of killing an animal. These activists believe animals should be given respect and treated equally. They challenge "speciesism," the belief that one species is inferior or superior to another. (Silverstein, p. 33)History has always shown humans believing to be superior to various groups whether they are distinguished by race, ???, religion, etc.A prime example is the Holocaust.Nazi's took twin infants and injected their eyes with dye in attempt to change their eye color to what they believed to be the "superior race" (Nazi Medical Experiments Brutality on Human Beings). A similar experiment has been conducted on rabbits to test if the dye was an eye irritant (Singer, p. 164, photos 3-4).This shows evidence that humans put themselves in a superior position in order to justify making something right, even though this is not the case."Might" does not make it "right."The all too familiar saying of "they are black, they are Jews, they are women, they are animals" made by "superior" groups is just used as an excuse to further justify the treatment of others.
Just as the Nazi's viewed the Jews as inferior and weaker people, the entire human race looks at animals as being weak and inferior. Even though the mental capacity of a human is far more developed than that of an animal, this does not mean that animals are weaker beings.Animals have a social and emotional life similar to humans. For example, cows have a complex social interaction. They form social hierarchies within their herds and choose leaders based on intelligence. They develop friendships and hold grudges against cows that treated them badly. They are also emotionally complex, have the capability to worry about the future (The Hidden Lives of Cows). Like other animals, cows have a strong bond with their young and even take turns babysitting for each other (Cows are Cool).
Though many people oppose animal testing, researchers all ask the same thing. Is letting thousands of people die to save an animal worth it? However, only 1.16% of human diseases are ever seen in animals, and 95% of the tests done on animals for drugs are found to be useless or dangerous to humans. A majority of doctors agree that animal tests are misleading because of the anatomical differences from a human. (Does Animal Testing Help Human Medicine? 33 Facts to Consider)
The number of excuses the human race has made to justify the killing and torture of innocent animals has not made these actions right.Not only are most animal tests inaccurate, the chance of thousands of lives saved from one experiment is very slim. The fact of the matter is that humans have evolved into no longer relying on their instincts to use animals for food, work, shelter, and clothing, we exploit animals.Even though we still use them for food, factory farms are not an instinct.Training circus animals for our entertainment is not an instinct.Conducting animal testing, even though statistics have shown animals and humans to have only 1.16% of the same diseases, is not an instinct. Even though some have stood up for animal rights, a greater number of people have resisted the change.Society has made humans believe they are superior, not only to animals, but to other groups of people as well.As the human condition, mankind has become the most violent species.This has been shown time and time again with animal testing, the Holocaust, and serial killers all who torture and kill their helpless victims. Simply stated by Isaac Bashevis Singer, "In their behavior towards creatures, all men are Nazis." (Singer, p. 84)
I have never had the best taste in guys. I always have gone for the ones who are complete assholes. My friends tell me this, but I just assume they are "jealous of our love." Haha ok I was just joking about that. One of my exs told me that about my friend Amber and it is just too damn funny. But I seriously never listen to my friends cause I am retarded.
But for the last 2 1/2 months I have been dating a guy, Wu Lifeng (Jacky). He is the most amazing guy I have ever met. My friends like him, my mom is so happy that I have found such a good guy, and according to my mom, my sister has said "he is just so unbelieveably nice" and she "cant believe I would even go for that kind of a guy." Well if you know my sister, she never has anything nice to say. But then again, he buys me and my sister food alot, so maybe she just likes him so she can get stuff from him.
Anyway, he really is wonderful. I don't know how I could ever let him go. Even though we have only known each other for a few months, I can see he is the only guy I ever want. I really feel like it is too good to be true.
This sucks...my computer is not working...I came home from school today and tried to turn it on and nothing happened...I checked everything and i cant figure it out. *SIGH* My boyfriends friend is gonna look at it tomorrow and i hope they can fix it because it sucks using the school computers. They cant read or write in chinese, which sucks cause thats how i practice alot. oh well...
Anyway I am going to end on the bright side. I really like these guys. I know i have a new husband everyweek...but I really, REALLY think these guys are so cute haha.
How happy is Turkey Day?? You get to spend time with your family and eat lots of great food. But if you have a turkey as your holiday centerpeice then all you are supporting it animal cruelty.
Turkeys live in incredably crowded and unsatitary conditions.
This turkey's skin has been been burned off from the amonia from living in its excrement.
Just at the turkey above, this ones eyes have been burned causeing it to go blind...
Does this make you hungry? Go Veg this year...For your health, the enviroment, and for the animals!
Sweet Potato and Peanut stew ( I know it sounds weird but it is good lol)
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I got this recipe from Vegan Planet by Robin Robertson. If you don't have it, you should get it it is so great! So many good recipes!
1 TBS olive oil 1 medium yellow onion chopped 1 medium green bell pepper seeded & chopped 1 garlic clove minced 2 tsp light brown sugar or other natural sweetener 1 tsp peeled and grated fresh ginger 1/2 tsp ground cumin 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp cayenne 1 1/2 lbs sweet potatoes peeled and diced into 1/2 in cubes One 14.5 oz can crushed tomatoes 1 1/2 cup vegetable stock 1 1/2 cup cooked dark red kidney beans (or one 15 oz can) 2 TBS smooth natural peanut butter 1/2 cup chopped unsalted dry roasted peanuts salt
Heat the olive oil in a large sauce pan over medium heat. Add onion. Cover and cook until tender (about 5 minutes). Add bell pepper and garlic cover and cook again until softened (about 5 min). Stir in the brown sugar,ginger, cumin,cinnamon, and cayenne. Stir in Sweet potatoes and stir. Stir in tomatoes, stock, and salt to taste. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer until vegetables are soft (about 30 min).
About 10 minutes before the end of the cooking time stir in the kidney beans.
Place the peanut butter in a small bowl and blend with about 1/4 cup of broth. Stir until smooth. Stir into stew.
Taste and adjust seasonings. Sprinkle with chopped peanuts and serve.
I twirked this recipe a little I used double the kidney beans and added more stock to mine...I also served this over rice. I was trying to figure out what to make for dinner yesterday opened up Vegan Planet and this was the recipe I opened up to. It was very good lol
I thought this was so well written. We should think of all lives (human or animal) as equal. I thought this was a very good comparison between the Jewish Holocaust and a Holocaust that is going on now, that so many people are contributing too. Most people would say that what happened in the Jewish Holocaust was horrible...but the truth is you are supporting the same actions on innocent lives everyday.
It is hard to give the exact number of animals that are killed throughout the world each year but it is estimated that it is about 45 billion. That means about 5,137,000 animals are killed every hour throughout the world. It takes slightly over one hour to equal the numbers of innocent Jews that were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. Would you believe that there has been about 2,600,000,000,000 animals killed in the world since the end of WWII? The 2.6 trillion animals killed for food and experimentation since WWII is an educated guess. That is a little less then a half million times as many Jews that were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. The word "holocaust" can apply to both the animal holocaust and the Jewish Holocaust and does not take away from the Jewish Holocaust. The comparison is valid since both get rounded up and placed into cages (concentration camps). They both are tortured and sometimes starved in the case of laying hens. They are both eventually slaughtered.
If we look at just the USA then we find an estimated 9.5 billion animals killed each year. That is 1,084,000 animals killed ever hour or about 18,067 animals killed every minute. With 301 animals killed every second, that is about one and a half time as many people killed on the train in Spain by terrorist in the beginning of March. Then we say that we do not want to upset our flesh eating friends by trying to convert them. I think that we should do anything ethical to at least slow down their eating of animals. I have said this before and I will say it again: I would rather see all people in the world eating half the numbers of animals then to have a million additional people become vegans. The former would be equal to three billion vegans. That would save 22,500,000,000 (22.5 billion) animals each year.
Now is the time to concentrate on getting our family and friends to cut back on their consumption of flesh. We should try to get them to switch from small animals to the larger animals like cows. Of course it would be great if we could get them to become vegans but I think that we all know that this is extremely difficult. Cutting back would be much easier to accomplish. Then if we could get them to cut back another half, that would be a quarter of what they now eat. We could try to step them down until they are vegans in twenty years or so. Can you see my logic? We need to do whatever we can to save the animals. There is a real animal holocaust in the world and we are on the front lines to save them. We can not surrender! We can not retreat! We must go forward!
1. Benzene was not withdrawn from use as an industrial chemical despite clinical and epidemological evidence that exposure caused leukemia in humans, because manufacturer-supported tests failed to reproduce leukemia in mice.[1]
2. Smoking was thought to be non-carcinogenic because smoking-related cancer is difficult to reproduce in lab animals. Consequently many continued to smoke and to die from cancer.[2]
3. Animal experiments on rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, monkeys, and baboons revealed no link between glass fibers and cancer. Not until 1991, due to human studies, did OSHA label it carcinogenic.[3][4][5]
4. Though arsenic was a known human carcinogen for decades, scientists still found little evidence in animals to support the conclusion as late as 1977.[6] This was the accepted view until it was eventually possible to produce in animals.[7][8][9]
5. Many humans continued to be exposed to asbestos and die because scientists could not reproduce the cancer in laboratory animals.
6. Pacemakers and heart valves were delayed in development because of physiological differences between animals on which they were designed and humans for whom they were intended.
7. Animal models of heart disease failed to show that a high cholesterol/high fat diet increases the risk of coronary artery disease. Instead of changing their eating habits to prevent the disease, people continued their lifestyles with a false sense of security.
8. Patients received medications that were harmful and/or ineffective due to animal models of stroke.
9. Animal studies predicted that beta-blockers would not lower blood pressure. This withheld their development.[10][11][12] Even animal experimenters admitted the failure of animal models of hypertension in this regard, but in the meantime, there were thousands more stroke victims.
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10. Surgeons thought they had perfected radial keratotomy, surgery performed to enable better vision without glasses, on rabbits, but the procedure blinded the first human patients (The rabbit cornea is able to regenerate on the underside, whereas the human cornea can only regenerate on the surface). Surgery is now performed only on the surface.
11. Combined heart lung transplants were supposedly 'perfected' on animals, but the first 3 human patients all died within 23 days.[13] Of the 28 patients operated on between 1981 and 1985, 8 died peri-operatively, and 10 developed obliterative bronchiolitis, a lung complication that the dogs on whom experiments had been conducted did not develop. Of those 10 humans who developed obliterative bronchiolitis, 4 died and 3 never breathed again without the aid of a respirator. Obliterative bronchiolitis turned out to be the most important risk of the operation.[14]
12. Cyclosporin A inhibits organ rejection, and its development was a watershed in the success of transplant operations. Had human evidence not overwhelmed unpromising evidence from animals, it would never have been released.[15]
13. Animal experiments failed to predict the kidney toxicity of the general anesthetic methoxyflurane. Many people lost all kidney function.
14. Animal experiments delayed the use of muscle relaxants during general anesthesia.
15. Research on animals failed to reveal bacteria as a cause of ulcers and delayed treating ulcers with antibiotics.
16. More than half of the 198 new medications released between 1976 and 1985 were either withdrawn or relabeled secondary to severe unpredicted side effects.[16] These side effects included complications such as lethal dysrhythmias, heart attacks, kidney failure, seizures, respiratory arrest, liver failure, and stroke, among others.
17. Flosint, an arthritis medication, was tested on rats, monkeys and dogs; all tolerated the medication well. However, in humans it caused deaths.
18. Zelmid, an antidepressant, was tested on rats and dogs without incident, but it caused severe neurological problems in humans.
19. Nomifensine, another antidepressant, was linked to kidney and liver failure, anemia, and death in humans. And yet animal testing had indicated that it could be used without side-effects occurring.
20. Amrinone, a medication used for heart failure, was tested on numerous animals and was released without any trepidation. But humans developed thrombocytopenia, a lack of the type of blood cells that are needed for clotting.
21. Fialuridine, an antiviral medication, caused liver damage in 7 out of 15 people. 5 eventually died and 2 more needed liver transplants.[17] And yet it had worked well in woodchucks.[18][19]
22. Clioquinol, an antidiarrheal, passed tests in rats, cats, dogs and rabbits. But it had to be withdrawn all over the world in 1982 after it was found to cause blindness and paralysis in humans.
23. Eraldin, a medication for heart disease, caused deaths and blindness in humans despite the fact that no untoward effects could be shown in animals. When introduced, scientists said it noted for the thoroughness of the toxicity studies on animals. Afterwards, scientists were unable to reproduce these results in animals.[20]
24. Opren, an arthritis medication, killed 61 people. Over 3500 cases of severe reactions have been documented. Opren had been tested on monkeys and other animals without problems.
25. Zomax, another arthritis drug, was responsible for the death of 14 people and causing suffering to many more.
26. The dose of isoproterenol, a medication used to treat asthma, was calculated in animals. Unfortunately, it was much too toxic for humans. 3500 asthmatics died in Great Britain alone due to overdose. It is still difficult to reproduce these results in animals.[21][22][23][24][25][26]
27. Methysergide, a medication used to treat headaches, led to retroperitoneal fibrosis, or severe scarring of the heart, kidneys, and blood vessels in the abdomen.[27] Scientists have been unable to reproduce this in animals.[28]
28. Suprofen, an arthritis drug, was withdrawn from the market when patients suffered kidney toxicity. Prior to its release researchers had this to say about the animal tests: '...excellent safety profile. No...cardiac, renal, or CNS [central nervous system] effects in any species'.[29][30]
29. Surgam, another arthritis drug, was designed to have a stomach protection factor that would prevent stomach ulcers, a common side effect of many arthritis drugs. Although promising in lab animal tests, ulcers occurred in human trials.[31][32]
30. Selacryn, a diuretic, was thoroughly tested on animals, but it was withdrawn in 1979 after 24 people died from drug induced liver failure.[33][34]
31. Perhexiline, a heart medication, was withdrawn when it produced liver failure which had not been predicted by animal testing. Even when the particular type of liver failure was known, it could not be induced in animals.[35] 32. Domperidone, designed as a treatment for nausea and vomiting, made human hearts beat irregularly and had to be withdrawn. Scientists were unable to reproduce this in dogs even with 70 times the normal dose.[36][37]
33. Mitoxantrone, a treatment for cancer produced heart failure in humans. It was extensively tested on dogs, which did not manifest this effect.[38][39]
34. Carbenoxalone was supposed to prevent formation of gastric ulcers but caused people to retain water to the point of heart failure. After vivisectors knew what it did to humans they tested it on rats, mice, monkeys, rabbits, but could not reproducing this effect.[40][41]
35. Clindamycin, an antibiotic, causes a bowel condition called pseudomenbraneous colitis. And yet it was tested in rats and dogs every day for a year; moreover, they were able to tolerate doses ten times greater than humans are able to.[42][43][44]
36. Animal experiments did not support the efficacy of valium-type drugs during development or subsequently.[45][46]
37. The pharmaceutical companies Pharmacia and Upjohn discontinued clinical tests of its Linomide (roquinimex) tablets for the treatment of multiple sclerosis after several patients suffered heart attacks. Of 1,200 patients, 8 suffered heart attacks as a result of taking the medication. Animal experiments had not predicted this.
38. Cylert (pemoline), a medication used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, caused liver failure in 13 children. Eleven either died or required a liver transplant.
39. Eldepryl (selegiline), a medication used to treat Parkinson's disease, was found to induce very high blood pressure. This side effect has not been seen in animals.
40. The diet drug combination of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine was linked to heart valve abnormalities and withdrawn although animal studies had never revealed heart abnormalities.[47]
41. The diabetes medication troglitazone, better known as Rezulin, was tested on animals without significant problems, but caused liver damage in humans. The manufacturer admitted that at least one patient had died and another had to undergo a liver transplant as a result.[48]
42. The plant digitalis has been used for centuries to treat heart disorders. However, clinical trials of the digitalis-derived drug were delayed because it caused high blood pressure in animals. Fortunately, human evidence overrode and as a result, digoxin, an analogue of digitalis, has saved countless lives. Many more people could have survived had the animal testing been ignored and digitalis been released earlier.[49][50][51][52]
43. FK 506, now called Tacrolimus, is an anti-rejection agent that was almost abandoned before proceeding to clinical trials due to severe toxicity in animals.[53][54] Animal studies suggested that the combination of FK 506 with cyclosporin might prove more useful.[55] In fact, just the opposite proved true in humans.[56]
44. Animal experiments suggested that corticosteroids would help septic shock, a severe bacterial infection of the blood.[57][58] However, humans reacted differently. This treatment increased the death rate in cases of septic shock.[59]
45. Despite the ineffectiveness of penicillin in rabbits, Alexander Fleming used the antibiotic on a very sick patient since he had nothing else to try. Fortunately, Fleming's initial tests were not on guinea pigs or hamsters because it kills them. Howard Florey, the Nobel Prize winner credited with co-discovering and manufacturing penicillin, stated: 'How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably never been granted a license, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realized'.
46. Fluoride, a cavity preventative, was initially withheld because it caused cancer in rats.[60][61][62]
47. The notoriously dangerous drugs thalidomide and DES were tested in animals and released for human usage. Tens of thousands suffered and/or died as a result.
48. Animal experiments misinformed researchers about how rapidly HIV replicates. Based on this false information, patients did not receive prompt therapies and their lives were shortened.
49. Animal-based research delayed the development of the polio vaccine, according to Dr. Albert Sabin, its inventor. The first rabies and polio vaccines worked well on animals but crippled or killed the people who tried them.
50. Researchers who work with animals have succumbed to illness and death due to exposure to diseases that while harmless to the animal host (such as Hepatitis B) are potentially or actually deadly for humans.
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1) Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever seen in animals.
(2) According to the former scientific executive of Huntingdon Life Sciences, animal tests and human results agree only '5%-25% of the time'.
(3) 95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately discarded as useless or dangerous to humans.
(4) At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in laboratory animals. They are allowed because it is admitted the animal tests are not relevant.
(5) Procter & Gamble used an artificial musk despite it failing the animal tests, i.e., causing tumours in mice. They said the animal test results were 'of little relevance for humans'.
(6) When asked if they agreed that animal experiments can be misleading 'because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans', 88% of doctors agreed.
(7) Rats are only 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer to humans. Flipping a coin would be more accurate.
The pharmaceutical industry funds many groups and organisations, so...
(8) Rodents are the animals almost always used in cancer research. They never get carcinomas, the human form of cancer, which affects membranes (e.g lung cancer). Their sarcomas affect bone and connecting tissue: the two cannot be compared.
(9) Up to 90% of animal test results are discarded as they are inapplicable to man.
(10) The results from animal experiments can be altered by factors such as diet and bedding. Bedding has been identified as giving cancer rates of over 90% and almost nil in the same strain of mice at different locations.
(11) ??? differences among laboratory animals can cause contradictory results. This does not correspond with humans.
(12) 9% of anaesthetised animals, intended to recover, die.
(13) An estimated 83% of substances are metabolised by rats in a different way to humans.
(14) Attempts to sue the manufacturers of the drug Surgam failed due to the testimony of medical experts that: 'data from animals could not be extrapolated safely to patients'.
(15) Lemon juice is a deadly poison, but arsenic, hemlock and botulin are safe according to animal tests.
(16) Genetically modified animals are not models for human illness. The mdx mouse is supposed to represent muscular dystrophy, but the muscles regenerate without treatment.
(17) 88% of stillbirths are caused by drugs which are passed as being safe in animal tests, according to a study in Germany.
(18) 61% of birth defects are caused by drugs passed safe in animal tests, according to the same study. Defect rates are 200 times post war levels.
(19) One in six patients in hospital are there because of a treatment they have taken.
(20) In America, 100,000 deaths a year are attributed to medical treatment. In one year 1.5 million people were hospitalised by medical treatment.
(21) A World Health Organisation study showed children were 14 times more likely to develop measles if they had been vaccinated.
(22) 40% of patients suffer side effects as a result of prescription treatment.
(23) Over 200,000 medicines have been released, most of which are now withdrawn. According to the World Health Organisation, only 240 are 'essential'.
(24) A German doctors' congress concluded that 6% of fatal illnesses and 25% of organic illness are caused by medicines. All have been animal tested.
(25) The lifesaving operation for ectopic pregnancies was delayed 40 years due to vivisection.
(26) According to the Royal Commission into vivisection (1912), 'The discovery of anaesthetics owes nothing to experiments on animals'. The great Dr Hadwen noted that 'had animal experiments been relied upon...humanity would have been robbed of this great blessing of anaesthesia'. The vivisector Halsey described the discovery of Fluroxene as 'one of the most dramatic examples of misleading evidence from animal data'.
(27) Aspirin fails animal tests, as does digitalis (a heart drug), cancer treatments, insulin (causes animal birth defects), penicillin and other safe medicines. They would have been banned if vivisection were heeded.
(28) In the court case when the manufacturers of Thalidomide were being tried, they were acquitted after numerous experts agreed that animal tests could not be relied on for human medicine.
(29) Blood transfusions were delayed 200 years by animal studies, corneal transplants were delayed 90 years.
(30) Despite many Nobel prizes being awarded to vivisectors, only 45% agree that animal experiments are crucial.
(31) At least 450 methods exist with which we can replace animal experiments.
(32) At least thirty-three animals die in laboratories each second worldwide; in the UK, one every four seconds.
(33) The Director of Research Defence Society, (which exists to defend vivisection) was asked if medical prgress could have been acheived without animal use. His written reply was 'I am sure it could be'.
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