What distinguishes a pet from a lab/test animal..What characteristics make them any different from each other? Do the tests we do actually have significance and how far can we take them?

These are the debated questions many researchers stray from answering..These tests are supposedly for the better of humanity..but what do the animals get from them?

What is it that gives us the right to pluck a species from its natural environment to cram it into a cage, breed it as often as we see fit, stick needles in its eyes and burn its skin?

Often it is said that because animals can't feel as much pain, this is an acceptable practice...They say that if they felt it, they would scream or fight back. Truth being is that many of them do scream and even cry (cows and chickens will cry tears similar to humans)...Fighting back isn't an option with as many restraints as they have preventing it.

Others say this is justified because it is the only way for medical and scientific research to make any type of advances...Truth being, according to many scientific American researchers, trends in animal research, over half these

Animal Rights isn't about loving animals more than people, or putting their needs before ours, but protecting animals from cruelty and unfair treatment, just as we'd expect to be protected.

The test substance is added to food or water, or is just force-fed through a long syringe directly to its stomach.

If you own a pet, how would you feel if you knew this was happening to it? I don't know how compassionate one must be to not want their pets skin burned off or needles poked through their pets eyes for an eyeshadow experiment.

I think this test clearly shows that when people get to know an animals behavior and know what it is like, opinions change on the harm they want to come to animals in general.

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