Vivisection is the cutting into or dissecting of a live animal.

Every day inside the walls of Huntingdon Life Sciences ( HLS ) and Other Animal Testing Laboratories including Cruel Laboratories Universities across the United States and The World Billions of non-human animals have been burnt, crushed, sliced, electrocuted, poisoned with toxic chemicals, and psychologically tormented in the name of scientific curiosity. What have we learned from all of this suffering? That animal research is inherently unethical, inevitably wasteful, and wholly unreliable. The U.S. squanders approximately $18 billion per year on animal experiments, much of which is funded by taxpayers, even though alternatives are less expensive and can be used repeatedly. And what do we get for our dollars? "Too much suffering for too little knowledge.

In the Lethal Dose:50 test (LD:50), mice, hamsters and other animals like Dogs, cats, monkeys, are force fed household cleansers, Make up (or personal care items). A feeding syringe is brusquely forced down the animals throats, injecting a chemical ingredient of the cleanser, or the cleanser itself, into their stomachs. These animals endure ulcerations, vomiting, bleeding, convulsions, and death. This forced feeding increases in amount until half of them die. Notes are made as to the quantity needed to kill 50% of the animals, then the survivors are killed. No harmful effects are noted or measured, only the animals lethal dose which is not much information. Scientists mistakenly perceive these results as determinant of how much of the product a human can safely ingest.

*Draize Eye Irritancy Test*

In the Draize Eye Irritancy test, rabbits, Cats, Dogs Monkeys are immobilized by their necks and have a chemical constituent of shampoo Make up, or a concentrated form of the shampoo itself (or toilet cleaner, body lotion, etc.), put directly into their eyes. Unlike humans, rabbits have insufficient tear ducts, so the shampoo doesnt get washed away naturally. Instead it sits in the eye, causing massive injury and suffering. The rabbits try so hard to be able to reach their eyes that they often break their backs with their immense escape efforts. An individual experiment can last for weeks, and no pain relief is given to the rabbits, as it would interfere with the results. Observations are noted subjectively, with no determined scale or range, then extrapolated onto the human population. What one scientist describes as mild irriation another may describe as severe. Not very scientific. The surviving animals are killed. However, no scientist or product manufacturing company can accurately predict a human eyes response to the product based on the Draize test.

*Inhalation Experiments*

In inhalation experiments, dogs, cats, guinea pigs and other animals are locked in small, airtight chambers, which are then filled with concentrated hairspray fumes (or mildew remover fumes, cologne fumes, etc.). Sometimes they have tight masks secured to their faces and filled with the vapors. The frightened, confused animals are forced to breath these chemicals, whimpering and seeking an escape from the toxic vapors. They are then locked up and observed. These animals suffer from pain, vomiting, bleeding, convulsions, and death. Once again, no pain relief is given as it would interfere with the results. The survivors are then killed, and results mistakingly generalized onto the human population.

*Skin Irritancy Experiments*

In skin irritancy experiments, animals, usually rabbits, dogs, cats, gerbils and monkeys, have their outer layers of skin removed so that toilet cleaner (or aftershave, hair dye, etc.) can be rubbed directly into their abrasions. These animals suffer ulcerations, bleeding, burning, and indescribable pain from these procedures as the substance eats away at their skin . Reactions are not treated to provide pain relief, only coldly studied. Once the observations are noted, the animals are killed. Once more the experimenters and manufacturing company feel a false confidence, believing they understand human skin reactions to their product.

* Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever seen in animals. Over 98% never are.

* At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in lab animals. They are allowed because it is admitted that animal tests are not relevant.

* When asked if they agreed that animal experimentation can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans, 88% of doctors agreed.

* Rats are 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer in humans. Flipping a coin would be more accurate.

* According to animal tests lemon juice is deadly poison, but arsenic, hemlock and botulin are safe.

* 40% of patients suffer side effects as a result of prescription treatment.

* Over 200,000 medicines have been released most of which are now withdrawn. According to the World Health Organisation, 240 medicines are essential.

* Thousands of drugs passed safe in animals have been withdrawn or banned due to their effect on human health.

* Aspirin fails animal tests, as do digitalis (heart drug), cancer treatments, insulin (causes animal birth defects), penicillin and other safe medicines. They would be banned if results from animal experimentation were accurate.

* When the producers of thalidomide were taken to court, they were aquitted after numerous experts agreed animal tests could not be relied on for human medicine.

* At least 450 methods exist with which we can replace animal experiments.

* Morphine puts humans asleep but excites cats.

* 95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately disgarded as useless or dangerous to humans.

* One is six patients in hospital are there because the drug they have taken had been passed safe for us on humans after animal tests.

* Worldwide, at least 22 animals die every second in labs. In the UK one animal dies every five seconds.

* The contraceptive pill causes blood clots in humans but it had the opposite effect in dogs.

* We use aspirin for aches and pains. It causes birth defects mice, rabbits and rats.

* Researchers refused to believe that benzene could cause cancer in humans because it failed to in animal tests.

* Dogs failed to predict heart problems caused by the cardiovascular drugs encainide and flecainide, which led to an estimated 3,000 deaths in the USA.

* Heart by pass surgery was put on hold for years because it didnt work on dogs.

* If we had relied on animal tests we would still believe that humans dont need vitamin C, that smoking doesnt cause cause cancer and alcohol doesnt cause liver damage.

* It was denied for decades that asbestos caused disease in humans because it didnt in animals.

* Polio researchers were mislead for years about how we catch the disease because they had experimented on monkeys.

* As one researcher points out, the ultimate dilemma with any animal model of human disease is that it can never reflect the human situation with complete accuracy."

*Now Remember This*

Vivisection is a Lie it Kills People and animals. Everytime you BUY Animal Tested Products Such as Household Products, Household Cleaners , Cosmetics, Lotions, etc.. you are Making Animals Suffer All Around This World.