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Help End Animal Testing
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Help End Animal Testing
Each year, more than 115 million animals are bred, used, and disposed of as hazardous waste in research and product testing in the U.S. These millions of animals are poisoned, physically assaulted, operated on without anesthesia, and are painfully subjected to harmful toxic chemicals on their skin, in their eyes, and are forced to inhale them. Animal testing is extremely cruel physically and psychologically, and there are no laws that protect them or prevent the deep and ongoing cruelty done to them. Everyday—animals used for cosmetic, product, toxicity and chemical testing, as well as medical research, live in cold, barren stainless steel cages, isolated and alone, denied all comfort, refused social contact and stimulation, never see daylight, sunlight or breathe fresh air—are afraid of humans and live in constant fear of the next experiment—then are killed at the end of all the experimentation. Animal testing is unreliable, because animals are subjected to extremely high doses of chemicals that humans would never be subjected to. Animals react very differently physiologically than humans do to chemicals, making the data often irrelevant. Animal testing is extremely time consuming and can take years for results, and requires 1000s of animals to get the result. In contrast to new technologies that are more sensitive, can detect toxic effects thoroughly and quickly that are missed in animals, are less expensive, more accurate, and can test thousands of chemicals everyday—that in animals takes 30 years to accomplish. It’s time for a complete shift away from animal testing, to safer, more reliable and humane non-animal testing methods. The following recommendations will support the businesses that don’t test on animals, remove support from companies that do test on animals, and help raise awareness about animal testing and how important it is to make the transition to non-animal testing – now.