Animal Testing is Animal Cruelty

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Animal Testing is Animal Cruelty The way I look at animal testing is a form hateful cruelty. None of these people care about if it hurts or kills the animals. The cruelty has been going on long enough and I think it is time to stop. What people do not know is that animal’s react a different way to drugs as humans do, so scientist cannot apply the results to humans. Many animals go through screaming, unbearable, horrific; you cannot even imagine pain when they go through test for products that you use every day such as: Cosmetics, Household Products, Medical Products, even Iams dog products. Some well-known animals that are use for testing are: cats, dogs, mice, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, sheep, llamas, cattle, owls, deer, monkeys and other primates. These are not, by any means, all of the animals that they use. These are just the most common ("Animal Rights: Animal Testing"). Animals cannot tell you that something hurts, but they can scream to let the scientist know, but none of them care that it hurts them so bad. Some scientist do not see that countless animals suffer and die, or that it is just plain wrong. These animals suffer, feel pain, hurt and want to live as we do. These companies have burned the skin off some animals, mutilated some bunnies’ ears, poisoned the mice, punching puppies in the face, drip a substance in bunnies eyes, and the suffering and dying of these animals has gone on too long. Animal testing has been going on many years, and some laws and regulations have been passed, but some is just not enough; no one pays attention to the Animal Welfare Act. The Animal Welfare Act is the federal law that governs the humane care, handling, treatment animals in laboratories, dealers who sell animals to lab... ... middle of paper ... ...rs. Web. 03 Nov. 2009. . Britches. Animal Rights TV. PETA. Web. 16 Nov. 2009. . Gaul, Gilbert M. "In U.S., Few Alternatives to Testing On Animals." The Washington Post 12 Apr. 2008. Http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103733_pf.html. Web. 2 Nov. 2009. Hayhurst, Chris. Animal testing: the animal rights debate. 1st Ed. New York: Rosen Group, Inc, 2000. Http://books.google.com/books?id=9f9ymYPmPeUC&dq=animal+testing&printsec=frontcover&source=bll&ots=qx0Vdbyjew&sig=Qj8TRJQ-i4b8CyGx5G2oCimqjDA&hl=en&ei=g5XvSvjKAYjoMfbm2IcH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=17&ved=0CDYQ6AEwEA#v=onepage&q=&f=false. Google. Web. 2 Nov. 2009. "Why Iams?" IamsCruelty.com. PETA. Web. 19 Nov. 2009.

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