22
Apr
Day Two: World Week for Animals in Labs
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Welcome to day two of WWAL, today being dedicated to the mouse. The humble mouse is the most commonly used animal in vivisection; given diseases like cancer, poisoned to death, genetically manipulated and given brain damage. Studies show that even “routine” procedures like weighing or cleaning cages cause stress to mice in laboratories – meaning they suffer mentally as well as physically. Which is, of course, twice as bad.
Despite this immense toll of suffering – and the fact that all drugs are tested extensively on animals before being tested on humans – roughly 90 per cent of drugs which pass animal trials either don’t work or are unsafe for humans and never make it onto the market. This wastes billions of pounds and years of research effort. According to a leading AIDS researcher, we are no closer to a vaccine for AIDS today than we were 25 years ago – despite the fact that around 30 AIDS vaccines had promising results in animals.
Its about time the ‘ One Who Knows Best ‘ brought this wretched earth and its HumanKind to an end. We have all behaved like idiots and deserve no mercy.