I speak, as you may have guessed from the cover page of this report, of vivisection. Animal testing. It's happening all around us, maybe not in our own backyards, maybe not even in the same county we live in, but it's there, it's real, and, if you ask me, it's barbaric.

Before I begin, let me tell you what you will and will not find in this report. First off, there will be no sugar coating. There is a reason I put a warning on my cover page, and that is that I will not be pulling any punches. You will see many pictures of animals and the cruelty they endure in vivisection labs; my purpose is not to glorify these actions, but to show the unbelievable disregard for a living being's suffering that takes place daily. Secondly, although the opinions I express in this

report are very strong, be assured that I am in no way trying to force these beliefs on anyone; I am simply laying forth the information. Do with it as you will.

Most of the system-shock experiments are performed, ostensibly, to aid in the field of psychological studies. The argument is that their motivation is the general good of mankind. On the other side of the coin, however, an ever-increasing amount of experimental work is for the opposite purpose: using animals as test subjects for weapons, so that human beings themselves may be killed more efficiently.

-Penicillin is poisonous to guinea pigs.

First, we have the Lethal Dose, or "LD" tests. The aim of these is to determine what quantity of a particular drug, chemical, or household cleaner is needed to kill off a set portion of a group of test animals. The target percentage of deaths is denoted by a number attached to the "LD." For example, the LD-50 test aims to kill 50 percent of the animals being used. The animals used for these tests are usually rats and mice, most of which go through extreme pain and anguish during the course of the testing. Not only are the circumstances and results of the tests quite ridiculous, but, as with all animal test results, there is little or no correlation between animal and human findings.

-One hundred milligrams of scopolamine leave dogs and cats completely unaffected, while it takes only 5 milligrams to kill a human.

How, you ask, is that possible? Even though the harming of animals may be barbaric, unnecessary, and revolting, how can it actually harm us? The answer lies in the fact that findings based on human data have been ignored because animal testing did not back them up. For example, by 1963 retrospective studies of human patients had already shown the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. However, almost all efforts to emulate these findings, and produce lung cancer in test animals, were failures. Clarence Little, a leading researcher in animal cancer, wrote, "The failure of many investigators to induce experimental cancers, except in a handful of cases, during fifty years of trying, casts serious doubt on the validity of the cigarette-lung cancer theory." The end result was that since the human and animal data did not agree, researchers distrusted the human data. This, in a nutshell, is why vivisection does not work.

They are poked, prodded, electrocuted, cut open with saws, knives, and scalpels. They are dropped from varying heights, to observe the effects for "scientific" purposes. The list goes on and on; there are endless ways to torture an animal that can be excused as "research." Basically, if you see a label on a product that reads "Tested safe on animals" or something to that effect, it may as well say, "many small animals were put through hell so we can legally sell this product." Even that is not the whole truth, but I'll get into that later.

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