Most all species of animals are used in vivisection. All animals are exposed to mental and physical torture. Since primates are mans nearest relatives, they are involved in vivisection more frequent than any other species. Monkeys are turned into drug addicts, alcoholics, force fed sweets for dental research, and are victims for car crash tests. Rat and mice are also frequently tested upon. In 1997 2,147,448 rats and mice were experimented on in the United Kingdom alone. Four million rats and mice were gassed or decapitated due to routine over breeding. Animal testing kills millions of animals every year.

A major reason animals should not be tested on is because of the diverse

effects of products on them compared to humans. Research proves that many drugs have had opposite side effects in humans than what they had when they were tested on the lab animals. Penicillin a useful drug for humans kills guinea pigs. A cancer drug called 6-azauridine can be used in humans but small doses kill dogs in a couple of days. Tamoxifen is designed as a contraceptive that works well in rats but has an opposite effect in women. Even every day aspirin relieves pain for humans but causes birth defects in cats. Blood transfusions were delayed two hundred years because of misleading results of animal experiments. Corneal transplants were also delayed ninety years due to incorrect vivisection results. Unfortunately the United States refuses to acknowledge these results and continues to make animal testing legal endangering human lives.

Unfortunately with as many anti-vivisection protesters there are the same amount of protesters who are for it. Many argue that the human race as a species are of better worth than any other animal, so other species should give their lives to prolong human existence. Micheal Leahy who is for animal testing bluntly states " Most of the calls for the abolition of our routines involving animals, particularly those appearing in the press or the propaganda material issued by organizations like Animal Aide or the League Against Cruel Sports ignore a basic logical point. So-called horror stories (glory illustrations depicting the debeaking of turkeys, dogs being hung, huntsmen exulting over the corpse of a fox, or reports of a senile researcher who failed properly to anaesth

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