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mostly operations on their brains. The Armed Forces Radiobiology Institute in Maryland was using monkeys to test radiation. The monkeys were exposed to various doses of radiation and then forced to run on a treadmill. If they stopped running they were given electric shock to keep them moving. Others vomited during the experimentation and they were given increasingly painful shocks to keep them moving and some did not die for more than five days. There were dogs that were used in the research on relationship between smoking and lung cancer. The dogs were being forced to breathe nicotine-laden smoke through a tube in their throats. Federal agencies have their own testing facilities, but they also delegate testing to Universities and commercial laboratories. Government regulatory

agencies protect corporations by determining how much poison can be “safely” absorbed into animals. There are chickens hanging by their feet from a conveyer belt that shoves them through an automatic throat-slicing machine. Or the deep basket full of baby male chicks struggling not to be smothered before they are ground into feed. Or the veal – calves raised in a crate so small that it could not turn around or walk – just to keep its meat tender. “At the University of Pennsylvania baboons are place din vices and they have their heads snapped around so violently that some have seizures, go limp, or even die, all the while the lab doctors stand around and laugh about their faces. There are certain experiments where puppies are burned, cat’s eyelids are sewn shut, and

baboons’ heads are crushed – and we wonder if these acts can be justified. Finally, there is the Lethal Dose 50 test. It is a test primarily used to test potential dangerous chemicals and new drugs. They get 100 lab animals and give them a dosage of the drug, and they keep receiving a dosage until 50 of the lab animals die – hence the name -Lethal Dose 50. Is this necessary? Should animals sacrifice their lives for chemicals and new drugs? With all the other alternatives to animal testing, with sever limits, it should be outlawed. Animals used in cosmetic testing should not continue, because animals have certain rights, such as humans, and the testing is cruel and unusual for any living thing. Millions of innocent animals are used for testing and continue to be infected,

catch diseases, or in certain cases die because we do not care enough to do anything about it?