25
Apr
World Week for Animals in Labs
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As World Week for Animals in Labs draws to a close, I’m a little ashamed to say I have a bias towards today’s animal – the monkey. When I look at their faces, all I see is a small human being; so full of character and emotion. Monkeys are intelligent, sociable and have complex needs but in 2006 more than 3,000 monkeys were used in experiments in Britain.
More than 10,000 are used across the European Union each year. Imprisoning these animals in labs causes them to suffer even before any experiments are conducted. Experiments conducted on monkeys include deliberately brain-damaging them, infecting them with diseases and testing vaccines on them, which can cause severe pain and paralysis.
Monkeys are genetically close to humans, but the Northwick Park “elephant man” drug trial showed how important the differences between us can be. The “elephant man” drug was tested on rats and monkeys, but only in humans did it prove to be deadly. Many other animal tests produce results that just don’t apply to humans. In just a few examples, saccharin causes tumours in rats but not humans, aspirin causes birth defects in dogs but not humans, and monkeys infected with HIV don’t develop AIDS.
The European Union is due to introduce a new law within the next few months to regulate animal experiments. PETA will be pressing British and European politicians for the strongest animal protection measures possible – including a ban on all tests on monkeys. to the growing list of people who have written to support a ban on primate tests and the introduction of the toughest possible rules under the new law.
Just want to say a big Thank-you to PETA & all the other Animal lovers out there….Animals are sacred & deserve to be treated with respect…
Its shocking how evil & in humane some people are..
Why test on innocent Animals. Instead of putting really evil people in jail that have done something really bad like hurt children etc..why not test on human people like that eh??? leave the innocent Animals out of it..Also im totaly discusted & devastated over bloody fur farms, wen i saw the video i cried for days its pure evil & in human…
If someone murders a human being thats murder, well sorry but to me murder is murder, whether its killing a human or an Animal…
Just so Thankful that theres PETA and others that care…We need to protect & continue to do all that we possibly can till we make this world a better place for Animals…
luv & peace to you all
Amy x