experimentinfo

INTRODUCTION:

            Animal Experiments (also called vivisection - defined as being the act of "cutting a living thing"), is worthless wasteful, inaccurate, uninformative and dangerously misleading. The cruelity is indefensible and an a descrace to human dignity, but in an atempt to justify their practices scientist claim that what they do helps to save human lives. As you read this page, I will let you make your own decision. I will provide evidence that animal experiments are done for personal and commercial gain by people who are driven by greed and vanity. They terrorize and blackmail people to make them believe that if animal experiments are stoped than the people they care about will die, this is dishonest but often effective. The animals used in these 'experiments' are abused, tortured, maimed and killed, we accept it because we think we see their products and advances everywhere.

HOW MANY AND WHAT,WHERE THE ANIMALS COME FROM:

           Accurate figures are hard (often impossible) to get because many scientists, well aware that what they do is worthless and unpopular, are secretive and refuse to disclose details of the animals they use.

         The figure is believed to be somwhere in the region of 250 million every year. (or 100,000 - 1,250,000                                                                                                                                        every hour).
Scientific Researches - 3 - 4 million
Academic Researchers - 12 - 22 million
Cosmetic Researchers - 1 million or so

               Supplying these animals is big business, they come from, specially breed farms, zoos (when they have a surplus of a certain species), retired animals (greyhounds, race/show horses etc), some are captured from the wild (sometimes so vastly that extinction may be threatened) and over 200,000 cats and dogs are picked off the streets of America alone every year and handed to vivisectors to be used in expirements.

- "some areas of India where the Rhesus Monkey population was high some years ago, few are now to be found", "no one can deny that some effect on the conservation of certain primate species has been caused by the large number that are captured annually for biochemical research purposes".
                                               - Hartely of the Narional instutate for medical research in London

            One British based animal supplier imported 10,000 monkeys over a four year period. Such animals must than/now exchange their freedom for laboratory cages and their natural lifestyles for boredom and pain.

FUNDING:

          It takes allot of money to, buy animals, equipment, facilities, pay researcers, etc. This money comes from, governments, industries, charitable organisation (in the belief that they are helping to fight cancer, heart disease or some other disabling disease), taxpayers, defense/war ministries, drug companies, cosmetic companies, companies making food aditives, industrial/agricultural chemical companies, household cleaners companies.

- Goverment money through education, pays for a big slice of the funding, fairly huge quanties of cash are made available so that students can experiment on live frogs, rabbits, cats - invariably repeating experiments which have been performed thousands of times before.

- Charity is the thired major source of money for animal experiments, funded by millions of small, individual donations from people who are attracted by the misguided promises to conquer disease and find 'wonder cures'. Medical charities realy heavily on the fact that although most of us realize our bad habits which make us ill we still like the idea of someone finding a magical cure that will absolute us from taking any real, practical responsibility for our health.

              Whether the cash is paid over a government department, a medical charity or a major international company, the real source of the money is not some anonymouse accountant or bureaucrat: the real money that pays for animal experiments comes from your wallet. Through: - paying taxes
                                                                                           - giving money to medical charitys
                                                                                           - buying a product that is made by a company                                                                                                       that has animal testing on its payroll.

               So just remember that you have help to pay for virtually every experiment ever described, you have helped buy the animals, you have helped equip the laboraties and you have paid the salaries of the men and woman who have dreamt up and than performed the experiments.

THE EXPERIMENTS:

               The following is a brief summary (the actual list is endless) of a handful of experiments that have been done in recent years on your behalf with your money.

1.
    British researchers blinded two domestic tabby kittens by sewing up their eyelids. The kittens were than placed in a special holder and horseradish peroxidase was injected into their brains. The kittens were than killed.

2.
    Three researchers conducted an experiment in which female hamsters were distracted with sunflower seeds so that their babies could be removed from the nest, a few hours after birth. Under 'hypothermic anaesthesia' the baby hamsters had their left eyes removed. They were than returned to their mothers. The scientists used fifty-nine golden hamsters in this experiment and removed the left eyes from 'about half'.

3.
    At the United States Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, a researcher spent nine weeks forcing thirty nine monkeys to run on a cylindrical treadmill known as an 'activity wheel'. If the monkeys failed to run for long enough they got an electric shock.

4.
    Researchers funded by the UK medical research council gave ferrets a drug that made them vomit at between half minute and five minute intervals. The researchers gave the ferrets another drug and concluded that under some circumstances the ferrets did not stand up to vomit and that under the influence of the second drug their vomiting was less forceful.

5.
    Three adult female cats were selected for a Welsh laboratory experiment because they were very docile. Wires from the cats eyes were connected to a device held in place on the cats skulls with self-tapping stainless steel screws. The cats were kept awake and their eye movements measured while their bodies were rotated and tilted and stimulated in other ways.

6.
    American researchers separated young kittens from their mothers to see what effect this had. At the end of the experiment the scientists concluded that separated kittens cried more than those who remained in close contact with their mothers. The scientists added that the crying seemed to denote stress.

7.
    Two eminent researchers working in America conducted a series of experiments designed to make baby monkeys depressed. To begin with they created a cloth, surrogate mother which could be triggered to blow out high pressure compressed air. When the baby monkey went to give its fake mum a hug the researcher would press a button and try to blast the baby monkey away. However, this did not work and the baby monkey merely clung on tighter. The researchers then built a surrogate monster mother that was designed to rock so violently that the baby's 'head and teeth would rattle'. Again, the baby monkey just cling on tightly. The thired monster had a wire frame built into its body the frame was designed to throw the baby away from it. This worked to a certain extent - in that it did successfully separate the baby from its fake mother - but the baby monkey just picked itself up and went back to its fake mother immediately afterwards. In a final attempt to alienate and thus depress the baby monkey the researchers built a 'porcupine' mother from which, at the press of a remote swich, sharp brass spikes would leap out. Once again the experiment was a failure for although the baby monkey was upset by the spikes it simply waited until the spikes had been withdrawn before returning to its mother.

8.
    The same researchers also cretated a 'well of despair' for monkeys. They built a vertical chamber with stainless steel sides and a rounded bottom and put young monkeys in it for weeks at a time. On this occasion the two researchers were successful. The monkeys eventually sat huddled at the bottom of the chamber looking depressed.

9.
    Scottish scientists pushed fine polythene tubes into rats brains. They then put balloons into the rats brains and blew them up. They found that all the rats suffered brain damage but that the smaller balloons did not produce as much damage as the big balloons.

10.
    Rats tails were immersed in hot water so that the experimenters could study pain in rats.

11.
    Four British researchers surgically joined together 224 individual rats to make 112 sets of 'fake' siamese twins.

12.
    Ten beagle dogs were deliberately given stomach ulcers.

13.
    Balloons made from condoms were pushed into dogs stomachs through metal tubes and then filled with water. During the experiment the dogs, which were hung in slings, were kept awake.

14.
    The livers, kidneys and lungs of Guernsey calves were deliberately damaged to see how this affected the way the animals responded to drugs. The researchers concluded that animals with damaged organs sometimes get more unpleasant side effects when they take drugs.

15.
    Cuts were made into the bodies of pregnant rats and metal scews cooled in liquid nitrogen were held against the developing heads of the baby rats. The baby rats were later killed and their brains removed so that the amount of damage could be assessed.

16.
    Six monkeys were given a drug so that they would develop Parkinsons disease. They were than given the drug which is commonly used to treat Parkinsons disease in humans. When the monkeys symptoms inproved they were killed.

17.
    Two researchers in London found that if they breathed heavily on ants as they came out of their nests early in the morning the ants panicked.

18.
    Three research workers shot around twenty monkeys just above the eye and then watched to see how long it took them to die. One monkey survived for over two and a half hours.

19.
    A psychologist removed a monkey's visual cortex and then kept the blinded monkey for six years so that he could study her behaviour.

20.
    Researchers have kept the brains of animals alive outside their bodies and have transplanted the heads of monkeys onto the bodies of other animals. Such experiments have taken place in a number of laboratories.

21.
    An American researcher gave a pair of rats a total of 15,000 electric shocks in seven and a half hours. Later the researcher heated the cage floor so that the rats inside jumped about, licking their feet as the cage grew hotter and hotter.

22.
    Researchers clipped the hair from forty beagle puppies. They then put kerosene-soaked gauze onto the beagles naked bodies and set fire to the gauze.

23.
    In a series of experiments conducted in france, over thirty baboons were killed in forty miles an hour fake car crashes. A number of monkeys were killed when their skulls were hit with a hammering device. The experiment showed that animals would be endangered if they drove cars into walls at forty miles an hour.

24.
      In a candian experiment three polar bears were made to swim through a tank filled with crude oil and water. When the oil coated their fur the bears tried to lick themselves clean. They swallowed so much oil that they developed kidney failure and died. The conclusion was that polar bears should be kept away from oil slicks.

25.
    Two experimental scientists designed a drum rather like a tumbledrier for trumatizing alert, awake animals. The drum was made so that it turned over forty times a minute with the animal inside falling from one side to the other twice during each rotation. During a five minute experiment an animal inside the drum fell four hundred times. The animals paws were taped together so that it could not break its own fall and interfere with the tramatizing process. Animals traumatized in the drum suffered broken teeth, concussion, bleeding and bruising of the liver.

THE LIES RESEARCHERS TELL US:

             In their attempts to defend the terrible things they do animal researchers will tell alot of lies.

NO: 1 -     They say that animals are properly anaesthetized during painful or uncomfortable                                                                                       experiments.

TRUTH:

- Three quarters of all experiments done are conducted without anaesthetic and the number is increasing. In a 12 month period experiments without anaesthetic on baboons went up by 11%, rabbits 20% and beagles 15%.

- Even when anaesthetic is used it is often inadequate. Researchers rarely have a properly trained anaesthetic present and researchers are not trained to and do not understand how to do it. Anaesthesia is a complex, sophisticated speciality which takes docters years to master.

- As a result of ignorance many animals are paralysed instead, with the result that although they cannot move or cry out they can still feel pain.

- Some are just not given adequate quanties.

The following is a quote directly from a paper written by Wilhelm Feldberg, a researcher at the National Instute for Medical Research in London. He studied medicine in Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin and in 1949 was appointed Head of the Division of Physiology and Pharmacology at the National Instute for Medical Research. He was highly qualified, he was a medical doctor, a fellow of the Royal Society, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Commander of the British Empire. His work was made possible by grants from the Medical Research Council.

One of his experiments was performed on cats . To begin with the experimenters implanted a tube into the brains of the cats. Then, when the cats had recovered from the anaesthetic, a mustard drug was injected straight down the tube into their brains. The following is what he wrote:

                     " Following these injections, shivering began without a minute or two                                                        and guickly became vigorous and   widespread. The next effect was                                                             vocalization. It began with periods of miaowing and gradually the miaowing                                                  changed to growling and yelping. Later tachypnoea (rapid breating), panting,                                                 salivation, piloerection (hair standing on head) and ear twitching were observed;                                            later again, periods of intense excitation alternation with periods of a                                                            more restful condition. During the periods of excitation the cat would suddenly                                              charge blindly ahead or jump up to or cling on to the side or roof of the cage, the                                           pupils being maximally dilated. The cats showed compulsive biting; care had to be                                          taken to prevent them biting through the lead of the rectal probe (a thermometer                                             had been tied into the cats rectums) by offering them instead a pencil on which they                                        could clamp their teeht and eventually gnawed through."

If normal people had performed these exaperiments on stray cats they would have been locked up. But Feldberg, who had discovered that if you stick mustard into the brains of a live, unanaesthetized cat it would pant, salivate, leap up and down, miaow and try to bite its way through anything in reach, was given buckets of cash to perform variations on the same experiment and write about it in scientific journals. Such as: He did the same experiment again but used a drug called glycaemia. Once again he discovered that if you inject a substance into a cats brain while it is alive and conscious it gets physically upset. Feldberg reported that his cats, shivered, miaowed, panted, salivated, retched, vomited and lost control of their bladders and bowels. Feldberg did experiments like this for around thirty years before he turned his interests towards rabbits.

As a result of a film taken by investigators of Feldberg at work the Medical Research Council held an inquiry. The published report of the inquiry shows that according to the Medical Research Coucil Feldberg failed to ensure that four of the rabbits he used were sufficiently anaesthetized during experiments performed the National Instutite for Medical Research, in Mill Hill, London. The Medical Research Council's report descrides the benifit likely to accrue from Feldberg's work as 'negligible' and admitted that 'applied to the methodology the word "crude" is not inappropriate'. They concluded that 'a number of animals perished for no discernible beneficial reason' and criticed the British Home Secretary for the fact that he 'failed to weigh adequately the likely benefit of the research against the likely adverse effects on the animals involved'.

Feldberg was probably just unlucky becauseit is doubtful that he was the only scientist in Britain who was failing to anaesthetize laboratory animals properly. He certainly wasn't the only scientist doing research work of negligible value.

           It is quite clear from the above, that it is a lie to say that animals which are experimented on are invariably and adequately anaesthatized. The truth is that most animals have no anaesthetic at all; and even when an anaesthetic is used the chances are high that it will be inadequate.