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| Animal rights are the second main cause that I strive to fight for. Animals are the most defenseless and the most abused creature on this planet. Millions and millions of helpless animals are killed and tortured for human consumption, recreation, and research. Most of these are completely unnecessary. PETA and AAVS are two amazing organizations that fight every day for saving these animals. |
| WARNING!!! There are a few pictures on this page that my be slightly disturbing. I appologize if any image is offensive, but I am merely trying to display the honest and brutal truth of what is happening. |
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| Xenotransplantation is the practice of taking cells, tissue, or organs from one species of animal, and trasplanting them to another species of animal. Currently, billions of dollars are being spent each year on developing the proper techniques and animal organs so that xenotransplants between people and other species can be possible. So far, no person who has received an organ from another animal has left the hospital alive. Not only have xenotransplants been 100% unsuccesful, but these procedures hold the possibility of causing novel new diseases that could affect millions of humans. Many diseases that have caused tremendous suffering and death have started in animal populations and been transmitted to humans. AIDS, swine flu, and a widespread form of cancer linked to vaccinations produced in animal tissue have caused the death of millions of people. MORE |
| The fur ads we see in magazines and commercials portray fur coats as a symbol of elegance. But these ads fail to show how the original owners of these coats met their gruesome deaths. Approximately 3.5 million furbearing animals--raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, lynxes, opossums, nutria, beavers, muskrats, otters, and others--are killed each year by trappers in the US. Another 2.7 million animals are raised on fur "farms". Despite the fur industry's attempts to downplay the role of trapping in fur "production," it is estiamted that more than half of all fur garments come from trapped animals. |
| No humane slaughter law protects animals on fur farms, and killing methods are gruesome. Because the fur farmers care only about preserving the quality of the fur, they use slaughter methods that keep the pelts intact but which result in severe suffering for the animals still quite attached to the pelts. Small animals can be shoved up to 20 at a time into boxes, where they are poisoned with hot, unfiltered engine exhaust pumped in by hose from the fur farmer's truck. Engine exhaust is not always 100% lethal, and some animals "wake up" while being skinned. Larger animals often have clamps attached to their lips while rods are insterted into their anuses, and are then very painfully electrocuted. Other animals are poisoned with strychnine, which actually suffocates them by paralyzing their muscles in painful rigid cramps. Gassing, decompression chambers, and neck snapping are other common fur farm slaughter methods. |
| There is so much information rejecting the idea of experimentation on animals in scientific research. Here is a great webpage that gives a great idea of the stupidity and inhumanity involved. CLICK HERE |
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