Terrorism is still in our world today. Although we don't realize it, we support it and benefit from the terrorists' experiments. Some of the test subjects are forced to ingest up to 275 times the recommended amount of a medication to see its affects. Others are fed nutrient-deficient diets and then have their bones removed to see the affects on their density. Still others are given only food that they are allergic to, and develop permanent, life-threatening illnesses as a result. The victims are not given medical care if they become ill, because that would change the results of the experiments. These atrocities and many more come so close in comparison to Dr. Mengle's experiments on mutations in World War Two that it is revolting. Who are these victims? Poor people in Cambodia? The blind in Iraq? No, they are our best friends, the ones we live with and see and love everyday. The victims are animals.
Animals are exploited for many reasons in experimentation. They are used to test the effects of medications, chemicals, and cosmetics. Only a few of the millions of perimented on are used to improve human welfare, and even then they are treated cruelly. Take "Oncomouse" for example. Oncomouse was a mouse strain created at Harvard through genetic engineering to be experimented on for cancer research. It was altered so that it has an increased rate of tumors, over the already high risk for mice. In fact, over 300 different animal species have patents because of genetic alteration. Is it moral to make animals more susceptible to disease to help improve the human population, which is destroying their world? You might think that the animals used for medical research are treated well and experimented on humanely, but that is not the case. The animals are used mainly to test high concentrations of chemicals to see the side effects. The animals are forced to take up to 275 times the recommended human amount of a medication, which results in negative effects for the dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, hamsters, mice, and rats involved. Some hardships the animals have to face in being science experiments are sterilization, decrease in the young's weight, size, and survival rate, brain damage, organ damage, optical damage, pain, and cancer.
Even pet food companies experiment on an animals, though they usually have a policy. Iams is one company that is well respected and thought of, but experiments on animals. Iams has a research policy but has violated four of their nine principles. In their policy it states that Iams will insure the humane treatment of animals. Was it being humane when Iams had its dogs debarked for distracting workers? In the policy, they also say that Iams will perform only experiments that would be acceptable to use on humans. Would any human volunteer to have a tube stuck down their throat to ingest vegetable oil? Iams may say that its goal is to eliminate even minor pain and discomfort to animals, but don't believe them! Iams regularly gave 36 dogs chest wounds to se how it would effect the growth of fur. Each dog was given 12 wounds in 18 weeks. Do you think they didn't feel the pain of having their skin sliced and peeled off in huge chunks? Perhaps Iam's biggest lie of all though, is that it will not induce or simulate illness on animals. There are scores of examples of Iams purposely giving animals disease and organ failure. In one experiment to test the affects of kidney failure on cats, 24 cats were forced to become obese, and then were starved on 25% of the calories needed to survive. In another incident, dogs had one of their kidney removed and the other had blood cut off from it until the dogs were left with only 8% of original kidney function. There are many more examples, but you might like to hear from Iams themselves.
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