Animals used for experimentation

 

 Millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cold, small  cages in laboratories. They languish in pain, because they’re not in the place where they’re meant to be.

Because instead of being free they are captivated and all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them. The stress, sterility and boredom causes some animals to develop neurotic behaviors , they spin incessantly in circles, rock back and forth and even pull out their own hair and bite their own skin.  They shake with fear whenever someone walks near their cages and their blood pressure rises drastically. After their lives are stolen and attacked by pain, loneliness and terror, most of them will be killed.

More than 100 million animals every year suffer and die in cruel chemical, drug, food and cosmetic tests. Mice, rats, birds and cold-blooded animals make up more than 95 percent of animals used in experiments, and they are not covered by the minimal protections of the Animal Welfare Act. To test cosmetics, household cleaners, and other consumer products, hundreds of thousands of animals are poisoned, blinded, and killed every year by cruel corporations.  Mice and rats are forced to inhale toxic fumes, dogs are force-fed with pesticides, and rabbits have corrosive chemicals rubbed onto their skin and eyes. 

Many of these tests are not even required by law, and they often produce inaccurate or misleading results; even if a product hurts animals, it will still be sold to you. Cruel tests are also made as part of massive regulatory testing programs that are funded by U.S. taxpayers' money. The Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Toxicology Program, and the Department of Agriculture are just a few of the government agencies that subject animals to painful and crude tests.

Each of us can help save animals from suffering in experiments by buying cruelty-free products, by donating only to charities that don't experiment on animals, by requesting alternatives to animal dissection and by demanding the immediate implementation of humane, effective non-animal tests by government agencies and corporations.

 

Click on http://www.mediapeta.com/peta/PDF/companiesdotest.pdf and read the list of companies that DO TEST ON ANIMALS

Animals used for entertainment

Bears, elephants, tigers, dogs and other animals do not voluntarily ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. They don't perform these and other difficult tricks because they want to see you smiling and laughing; they perform them because they're terrified of what will happen if they don't.

For animals in circuses there is no such thing as ‘’positive reinforcement’’, there are only cruel punishments. Trainers use whips, electric prods, muzzles, tight collars and other painful tools to force them to perform these meaningless tricks.

In the Ringling Bros. circus, elephants are beaten, , prodded, and jabbed with sharp hooks, sometimes until they start bleeding . Ringling breaks their spirits when they're vulnerable babies who should still be with their moms .The next heartbreaking photos reveal how Ringling Bros. circus trainers cruelly force baby elephants to learn tricks, and it's not through a reward system, as they claim.

Constant Confinement

Because the circus is costantly traveling, means that animals are confined to boxcars, trailers, or trucks for days in an extremely hot and cold weather,almost always without access to basic necessities such as food, water, and veterinary care. Elephants, big cats, bears, and primates are confined to cramped and dirty cages in which they eat, drink, sleep, defecate, and urinate,and guess what?-all in the same place.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus boasts that its three units travel more than 25,000 miles as the circus tours the country for 11 months each year. Ringling's own documents reveal that on average, elephants are chained for more than 26 hours straight and are sometimes continually chained for as many as 60 to 100 hours. Tigers and lions usually live and travel in cages that provide barely enough room for the animals to turn around, often with two big cats crammed into a single cage. In July 2004, Clyde, a young lion that was traveling with Ringling, died in a poorly ventilated boxcar while the circus was crossing the Mojave Desert, where temperatures reached at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Clyde likely died a miserable death from heatstroke and dehydration. Previously, two tigers with Ringling injured themselves while attempting to escape from their cages in an overheated boxcar.

You save thousands of animals' lives by not going to ciruses that use animal acts,  now take a look of how it would be like if you were them.

Animals used for clothing

Did you know that every year millions of animals are killed in name of fashion? Whether  they come from fur farms or slaughterhouses, you should know about an immesaurable amount of suffering that goes into every leather belt, wool sweater and fur jacket you wear.

Animals that come from fur farms spend their whole lives confined to dirty, cramped cages. Fur farmers use the cruelest and cheapest killing methods, electrocution,suffocation,gassing and poisoning.

More than half the fur in the U.S. comes from China, where millions of dogs and cats are beaten ,hanged, bled to death, and  skinned alive for their fur. Because chinese fur is often mislabeled,you can´t know whose skin you're in.

China  is the world's largest fur exporter, providing more than half of the finished fur clothing  that it's sold in the United States.Foxes, minks, rabbits, dogs, cats, and other animals are all the time in outdoor wire cages, with no shelter from driving rain, freezing nights, or the scorching sun.

Mother animals  are driven crazy because of the intense confinement , they have nowhere to hide while giving birth,so they kill their babies after delivering . Disease and injuries are widespread, and animals suffer from anxiety-induced psychosis that's why they chew on their own limbs and throw themselves against the cage bars.

Before they are skinned, animals are taken out from their cages, thrown to the ground, and beaten. Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International found that most animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them.

I want you to see the next video, it shows how far we get for vanity

NOW YOU KNOW THAT YOUR FUR HAD A FACE