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Prior to experimentation, animals live in an environment of constant stress. They are confined to a small cage, unable to move freely or get away from their own waste. Additionally, they are repeatedly taken for terrifying testing procedures like blood tests and surgery. The stress can affect animals' immune systems, leading to increased susceptibility of illness which can make the results of the experiment confusing for the researchers to distinguish.
Source: AnimalExperimentsPictures.com Beagles are the most popular breed for lab use because of their friendly, docile, trusting, forgiving, people-pleasing personalities. The research industry says they adapt well to living in a cage, and are inexpensive to feed. Research beagles are usually obtained directly from commercial breeders who specifically breed dogs to sell to scientific institutions. After spending their entire lives confined to a cage, a group of beagles are finally free to experience a life they deserve. Source: Beagle Freedom Project Health officials have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes disease in nearly every organ of the human body and that animal tests are poor predictors of these effects. Yet tobacco companies and the contract laboratories that they hire continue to conduct cruel, irrelevant animal tests on new and existing products.
Source: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Developed in 1944 by toxicologists John H. Draize and Jacob M. Spines, the Draize test is commonly used for cosmetic purposes (to improve people's appearance). The test involves applying test substances to the eye/skin of restrained, conscious animals and then observing the side effects, commonly intense burning, itching, and pain. The Draize Test is not only unnecessary because cosmetics are not vital for survival, but also unreliable as reactions from bunnies cannot accurately predict how a human will respond to a substance.
After a lifetime of painful testing procedures, 38 surviving laboratory chimps are finally freed in an Austrain sanctuary called Gut Aiderbichl, where they will see sunlight and breathe fresh air for the first time in 30 years.
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