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Animal Testing Using animals for testing is wrong and should be banned.
Twenty-four hours a day humans are using defenseless animals for cruel and most
often useless tests because these animals have no way of fighting back and they
are very cheap. They have to stop doing all that because these animals have
right to live just as we do , there should be new laws to protect them , and
they have to be careful because there is a day will come when they find that
almost 50% of these animals in the hole world will get distinct . These
legislations also need to be enforced more regularly. Although most labs are run
by private companies, often experiments are conducted by public organizations.
The US government, Army and Air force in particular, has designed and carried
out many animal experiments.
The purposed experiments were engineered so that
many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and
death would save a single life, or benefit humans in anyway at all; but the same
can be said for tens of thousands of other experiments performed in the US each
year. Limiting it to just experiments done on beagles, the following might sock
most people: For instance, at the Lovelace Foundation, Albuquerque and New
Mexico, experimenters forced sixty-four beagles to inhale radioactive Strontium
90 as part of a Larger Fission Product Inhalation Program ,which began in 1961
and has been paid for by the US Atomic Energy Commission. In this experiment
Twenty-five of the dogs eventually died. One of the deaths occurred during an
epileptic seizure; another from a brain hemorrhage. Other dogs, before death,
became feverish and anemic, lost their appetites, and had hemorrhages.
The
experimenters in their published report, compared their results with that of
other experiments conducted at the University of Utah and the Argonne National
Laboratory in which beagles were injected with Strontium 90. They concluded that
the dose needed to produce “early death” in fifty percent of the sample group
differed from test to test because the dogs injected with Strontium 90 retains
more of the radioactive substance than dogs forced to inhale it , Also at the
University of Rochester School Of Medicine a group of experimenters put fifty
beagles in wooden boxes and irradiated them with different levels of radiation
by x-rays. Twenty-one of the dogs died within the first two weeks. The
experimenters determined the dose at which fifty percent of the animals will die
with ninety-five percent confidence. The irritated dogs vomited, had diarrhea,
and lost their appetites. Later, they hemorrhaged from the mouth, nose, and
eyes.
In their report, the experimenters compared their experiment to others of
the same nature that each used around seven hundred dogs. The experimenters said
that the injuries produced in their own experiment were Typical of those
described for the dog (Singer 30). Similarly, experimenters for the US Food and
Drug Administration gave thirty beagles and thirty pigs large amounts of Methoxychlor (a pesticide) in their food, seven days a week for six months in
order to insure tissue damage . Within eight weeks, eleven dogs exhibited signs
of abnormal behavior including nervousness, salivation, muscle spasms, and
convolutions. Dogs in convultions breathed as rapidly as two hundred times a
minute before they passed out from lack of oxygen. Upon recovery from an episode
of convulsions and collapse, the dogs were uncoordinated, apparently blind, and
any stimulus such as dropping a feeding pan, squirting water, or touching the
animals initiated another convulsion.
After further experimentation on an
additional twenty beagles, the experimenters concluded that massive daily doses
of Methoxychlor produce different effects in dogs from those produced in pigs.
These three examples should be enough to show that the Air force beagle
experiments were in no way exceptional. Note that all of these experiments,
according to the experimenters own reports, obviously caused the animals to
suffer considerably before dying. No steps were taken to prevent this suffering,
even when it was clear that the radiation or poison had made the animals
extremely sick. Also, these experiments are parts of series of similar
experiments, repeated with only minor variations, that are being carried out all
over the country.
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