Protecting Co-Creation: The Problem with Animal Testing
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

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White Coat Waste
July 2014

One must ask oneself...if these experiments cause animals to suffer and do not have anything to show for it, why should they be allowed to continue.

Check out today’s must read post from the Episcopal Church: “Protecting Co-Creation: The Problem with Animal Testing.” Parker Stoker, Legislative Intern, Office of Government Relations, writes:

I first learned about the government’s role in animal experimentation when Anthony Bellotti, the director of the White Coat Waste Project, gave a guest lecture to my Religion and Animals class at Sewanee on the topic of government funded animal testing. My classmates and I were surprised to learn that the U.S. Government is the largest funder of animal experimentation in the country. As I learned the implications of this fact, my surprise quickly turned to distress.

And this:

Examples of this include a nearly two million dollar study at a major public university that involved forcing beagles to run on treadmills beyond the point of exhaustion in order to induce heart attacks. The ostensible purpose of this study was to determine the effect, if any, of fish oil on cardiovascular health. Moreover, the dogs used in such experiments—generally beagles, given their trusting and docile nature—routinely have their vocal cords cut to prevent their barking or crying out in pain. Another illustration of this type of animal and monetary abuse is a decade-long research program by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that spent more than three and a half million dollars addicting rhesus monkeys to methamphetamine, PCP, cocaine, and heroin. These instances are only some of the many that demonstrate the unconscionable harm and mistreatment to animals that is paid for by public funding.

And this. Money quote:

One must ask oneself...if these experiments cause animals to suffer and do not have anything to show for it, why should they be allowed to continue.

To read more of this wonderful piece, please follow this link - Protecting Co-Creation: The Problem with Animal Testing.

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