Animal Testing Weekly: It's World Week for Animals in Labs!
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World Week for Animals in Labs starts TODAY and runs until the end of April.
Millions of animals suffer in laboratories and education every year, but many people don’t know this. World Week for Animals in Labs is an opportunity to spotlight this issue and educate more people about how animals are used in research, testing, and education.
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Pigs are used in many areas of research, like cardiology, dermatology, xenotransplantation, and as surgical training models. Nearly 50,000 pigs were used in labs in 2015.
Primates are target species for use in drug testing, neurological studies, and infectious disease research. In 2015, labs housed over 105,000 primates, 62,000 of whom were used in experiments.
Yesterday was the international day of
remembrance for the animals used and discarded in laboratories. Here are three
things you can do to show your support:
In
their natural habitats, nonhuman primates have the freedom to travel for miles,
scavenge for various foods, socialize with family and friends, climb hills,
swing from vines, swim in rivers, and scurry across fields. In laboratories,
they are deprived of all sensory stimulation and hardly have enough room to sit,
stand, lie down, or turn around. Every year in the U.S., over 105,000 primates
are imprisoned in laboratories—such as those at the National Institutes of
Health—where they're subjected to abuse and killed in invasive, painful, and
terrifying experiments. The U.S Food and Drug Administration reports that animal
tests have a 92 percent failure rate in predicting the safety and effectiveness
of pharmaceutical use in humans. So why are we still using animals for
experiments that have proved to be ineffective?
This
brave activist crashed a panel discussion with Texas A&M University's
president to speak out against the school's experiments that are conducted on
dogs who are deliberately bred to have muscular dystrophy (MD), including
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), which is particularly severe. Notice how the
audience acts indifferent to her pleas and ignores her—as if they didn't care
that this condition ravages dogs' bodies and makes it difficult for them to
walk, swallow, and breathe. They act oblivious to the fact that Joe Kornegay has
been leading these cruel experiments for 35 years and still hasn't found a cure
or treatment to reverse these symptoms in humans. Why continue to use innocent
dogs in these cruel experiments?
Support a Moratorium on Animal
Experimentation. As
legislators review the law designed to protect animals used in experiments, we
must urge Europe to support a moratorium on animal experimentation. speak out
They
lived and died inside cold, barren, metal laboratory cages. They didn’t have the
life that you and I would want dogs to have. Instead, they were bred to develop
golden retriever muscular dystrophy (GRMD), a disease so debilitating that it
causes puppies to become severely crippled and endure agonizing lives.
Throughout their miserable lives, Jelly and Peony were both subjected to painful
experiments and multiple painful biopsies, in which chunks of their muscles were
removed.
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