According to some US national statistics, nearly two-thirds of all animal research has little or nothing to do with curing human diseases or advancing human medicine.
animals don’t react the same way humans do, so whatever you test on them and the results that come from it, you have to test on humans again. It’s double work and unnecessary.
“We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.”
“ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: “because the animals are like us.” ask the experimenters why it is morally ok to experiment on animals, and the answer is: “because the animals are not like us.” animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.”— charles r. magel
Ninety-two percent of all drugs that pass animal testing fail the clinical trail phase after they prove ineffective or dangerous to human subjects.
Meet Oogy, Oogy was about ten weeks old and weighed 20 pounds he was tied to a stake and used as bait for a Pit Bull. The left side of his face including most of his ear was torn off. He was bitten so hard a piece of his lower jaw was crushed. Afterward, he was thrown into a cage and left to bleed to death.
(Source: suade, via helter---skelter)
“Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?… It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being.”
— Plutarch
As we look back on how essential animals are to human survival; our absolute dependence on them (for companionship, food, clothing, sport and entertainment, as well as medical and scientific research), ironically … we only see mankind’s complete disrespect for these non-human providers. Without a doubt, this must be what it is to “bite the hand that feeds us”. In fact, we have actually stomped and spit on it.
Closer comes the screaming knife
This beautiful creature must die
A death for no reason
And death for no reason is murder
“What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.” ~Leo Tolstoy
