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Hello! This is Ayunie :)


I subscribed to emails from Peta.org (You should too! You get many notices about current issues about animal testing - spread the word!), and received two emails quite recently. Here are just pictures to summarise what they both said...

Read a bit more and donate at:- www.peta.org.uk/donate/ctt/W2F10HOMEPAGE.html


So remember, boycott Lipton, PG Tips and Lyons! >:D


-Ayunie

Against Animal Testing

Each year in the United States, an estimated 70 million animals are maimed, blinded, scalded, force-fed chemicals, genetically manipulated, and otherwise hurt and killed in the name of science, by private institutions, household product and cosmetics companies, government agencies, educational institutions, and scientific centers. Substances we use everyday, such as eye shadow, soap, furniture polish and oven cleaner, may be tested on rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, and other animals. These tests are mainly used to test the degree of harmfulness of products and their ingredients. No antidoes are ever sought, so animal tests cannot be used to prevent or treat potential human injuries. These tests are not required by the law, and they are only done to protect companies from consumer lawsuits.

Other tests more suitable include:

• Chemical assay tests
• Tissue culture systems
• Cell and organ cultures
• Cloned human skin cells
• Human skin patches
• Computer and mathematical models

 Amal......xxxx

Thursday 11 November 2010

Animal Testing

Does animal testing work?
Yes	No
Animal testing has helped to develop vaccines against diseases like rabies, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and TB	Animal experiments can be misleading. An animal's response to a drug can be different to a human's
Antibiotics, HIV drugs, insulin and cancer treatments rely on animal tests. Other testing methods aren't advanced enough	Successful alternatives include test tube studies on human tissue cultures, statistics and computer models
Scientists claim there are no differences in lab animals and humans that cannot be factored into tests	The stress that animals endure in labs can affect experiments, making the results meaningless
Operations on animals helped to develop organ transplant and open-heart surgery techniques	Animals are still used to test items like cleaning products, which benefit mankind less than medicines or surgery

Is animal testing morally right?
Yes	No
Human life has greater intrinsic value than animal life	Animals have as much right to life as human beings
Legislation protects all lab animals from cruelty or mistreatment	Strict controls have not prevented researchers from abusing animals - although such instances are rare
Millions of animals are killed for food every year - if anything, medical research is a more worthy death	Deaths through research are absolutely unnecessary and are morally no different from murder
Few animals feel any pain as they are killed before they have the chance to suffer	When locked up they suffer tremendous stress. Can we know they don't feel pain?

Numbers of animals used in the UK in 2000
Animals	Number Used
Mouse	1,607,000
Rat	535,000
Other Rodent	71,500
Rabbit	39,700
Carnivore	11,600
Hoofed mammal	63,000
Primate	3,700
Other mammal	500
Bird	124,200
Reptile	15,600
Fish	243,000
TOTAL	2,714,800

Amal....xxxxxx

Tuesday 9 November 2010

Why animal experimentation is bad?

First of all, animal experimentation should be terminated because of the government's involvement in this type of science. Accurate counts of the number of animals killed each year because of the experiments cannot be found. 

The U.S. government had decided that rodents and certain other animals don't have to be counted. Also, an American taxpayer funds the government to support the cost of the experiments, whether you know it or not. Yet, one cannot visit a laboratory and see how the government used the money.

 In addition, animal experimentation is a multi-billion dollar industry with a web of scientists, government, university labs, cage and food manufacturers, animal breeders, and transporters. But, the government is in the middle of this all and everyone gets a profit out of a powerless animal

. By adding up all the bad things that the government has done, animal experimentation should be ceased because of a superior force that doesn't care for nature.

Amal....xxxxx

Why does animal testing take place?



British law says that any new drug used for medicine, must be tested on at least two different types of live mammal. One of these must be a large non-rodent type animal. This is to make sure the drug works and doesn't hurt you.

Animal testing has also sometimes been used for developing:

• Household products

• Agricultural chemicals

• Industrial chemicals

• Pesticides

• Paint

• Food additives

In some countries animals are also used to test beauty products. But this is not allowed in Britain anymore.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/animals/animal_testing/newsid_2149000/2149767.stm

What do you know about mice? Did you know that mice in the wild can jump and climb trees? Or that one type of mouse called a harvest mouse builds a nest of woven grass attached to stalks or reeds above the ground? Did you know that dormice can lower their body temperature to save energy when it's cold or when there isn't much food around. It's all true! Now that's amazing!



Rats are also very intelligent animals who have very sharp hearing and a good sense of smell. They are good swimmers and climbers and like to live in groups. People who look after domestic rats say that rats are friendly and gentle and that they are very keen explorers!



Did you know that some medicines and even some of the shampoos, soaps and other products your family might use to clean the house are tried out on mice, rats and other animals to see if the animals get hurt when eating or touching them? For example, rats might have to eat washing powder to see what happens to them, and rabbits might have to have toilet cleaner rubbed on their bare skin to see whether they get a rash.



Even cats and dogs are used to try medicines before people can buy them. Animals either die during the tests from being fed too much medicine or soap, or they are killed after the tests.



Some people think that it's a good idea to test on animals; others say that it's wrong.



Someone who thinks it is OK to test things on animals might say

• "Using animals is a good way to find out whether products like polish, shampoo and medicines are safe for people to use. At least no humans get hurt!"

Someone who thinks it is wrong to use animals like this might say

• "It is not right to use animals like this because animals hurt, just like we do."

• "There are other ways to test products. We can even use computers to find out if a medicine or shampoo will hurt us."

Written by Safa

Should animals be used to in testing new drugs and procedures??

Some people agree that Animal Testing should take place, they feel that by using Animals to test products helps save our lives... Some people agree that Animal Testing should only be used to test for medical purposes, and I agree with this argument.

The following link has views of our opposing argument. It is explained that animal testing helps us and should still be carried out.

http://www.writefix.com/argument/animaltestingyes2.htm

         -Written by Safina