Animal Cruelty

Animal Cruelty

In today's world we should not be using Laboratory Animals for Testing.   Our Government has completed hundreds of tests throughout the years and there has been very dismal proof that conducting the animal testing benefits us humans.

To better understand how we as humans have become so adherent to Animal Rights, let's take a look back in our history. Animals were merely a part of our food chain at the start of time, and then we needed hunting animals to hunt larger animals that would supply our families with more meat for our consumption. Years later, we needed animals such as cattle and horses as a means of transportation by land and to help lighten the human workload. Years later it was in fact possible to keep pets and or companions. At the start of civilization we did need animals as a source of food and clothing. That was at the beginning of times and a decade or two ago. Now we have animals as companions, they are no longer pets. They are members of our families; they are valuable and loved. These are the new times of animals, they are our family members, and we want to look out for every animal on earth. Animal rights needs to be addressed and stronger government guidelines need to be enforced.

There are two different kinds of animal testing. The first Animal Experimentation, which entails that the laboratory animal may only have a minute or so of pain or discomfort. Surgical interventions are performed under anesthesia. The second is Animal Vivisection, which is the most inhumane testing performed. Vivisection is when the lab animal is not put under any kind of anesthesia. The testing is conducted with the animal awake and feeling the enormous amount of pain. Vivisection is when they cut into the animal, without anesthesia or numbing agents.

This is why there are so many outraged animal rights activists that are involved in the utmost extreme groups. Humans are distinctly different from animals, organ wise. How can we test animals with drugs that...