strations and often hand out pictures of animals who are being held captive to be tested on. " Peta believes that animals deserve the most basic rights- consideration of their own best interests regardless of wether they are useful to humans. Like you, they are capable of suffering and have interests in leading their own lives; therefore, they are not ours to use- for food, clothing, entertainment, or experimentation, or for any other reason." Like the many members of Peta most people believe that animals have their own rights and should not be tested on. The animals do not have the ability to give consent to the testing and cannot stop it. The animals which are most commonly used are mice, rats and rabbits. The actual numbers are staggering. Each year roughly "1,607,000 mice, 535,000 rats, 71,500 other rodents, 39,700 rabbits, 11,600 carnivores, 63,000 hoofed mammals, 500 other mammal, 3,700 primates, 124,200 birds, 15,600 reptiles, and 243,000 fish" (
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