Animal Rights

             Every year, millions of animals suffer and die in painful tests to determine the safety of cosmetics and other products. Substances such as eye shadow and soap are tested on rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, dogs, and other animals, despite the fact that the test results don't help prevent or treat human illness or injury.
             People often fail to give animals the respect and rights they deserve, they are treated as lifeless, unfeeling scientific creatures, that we discard at our own convenience. Some of these animals come from animal shelters and others even worse, some have been stolen directly from their own front yard. Imagine your pet one day being crammed into a cage with ten other animals waiting to die for numerous unreliable tests. People look at these animals being tested on as their own. They will realize how horrible it must be if it was there own pet.
             Before these animals die, they are routinely burned, scalded, poisoned, starved, given electric shocks, addicted to drugs, subjected to near freezing temperatures, dosed with radioactive elements, driven insane. Some are even deliberately inflicted with diseases such as cancer, diabetes, oral infections, stomach ulcers, Syphilis, herpes, and AIDS. Their eyes are sometimes surgically removed; their brains and spinal cords damaged, and their bones broken. Animals are force fed substances through a stomach tube, forced to inhale a substance, or have the substance applied to their rectum or vagina.
             These animals are not even given the privilege of anesthesia. They are feeling the full force of pain inflicted by these. Could you bear the pain of these experiments? Then why let the animals suffer. These tests usually continue until half of the test animals die. Despite all of this cruelty, not a single disease has been cured through animal testing in this century. For instance some medicines such as Penicillin and Aspirin kill certain animals and even cause birth d...

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