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For Animal Rights

In this essay I will be discussing the cruel acts of animal torture

and testing. Animals have been tortured to death by substances such as

drugs, cosmetics, diseases, tobacco, alcohol, detergent and other

poisons. Do people have the right to do what ever they like to

perfectly healthy animals? Should scientists do tests on animals if no

new information is going to be gained? Cosmetic companies use animal

tests to protect themselves against possible lawsuits. If they were

sued for liability then they can back themselves up by saying that the

product was 'tested for safety'. How placing a piece of lipstick in

the eye of a rabbit to see if it is safe for the consumer doesn't

sound right to me. I'm sure that my eye would feel irritable. How does

this test prove that it is safe for the consumer? I don't believe that

anybody would be putting lipstick in their eyes.

Each year in the United States about 20-70 million animals - from

cats, dogs and primates to rabbits, rats and mice suffer and die just

because of research. Animals are locked in complete darkness, sending

them crazy, turning them into drug addicts, giving them diseases such

as aids and cancer, sending them blind or deaf, there has even been

cases of cats and dogs been stitched together, and many cases of mice,

rabbits, guinea pigs and even monkeys having cosmetics, detergents and

other household products rubbed into their shaven skin and having it

dripped into their eyes while been under no anaesthetic at all. Other

animals are force fed big quantities of toxic materials such as bleach

or soap just to find out the levels of toxicity. Some of the

manufactu...

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... on. Approximately 350,000 dairy cows are 'downers' each

year. Animals that are 'downers' are beaten and dragged by chains

still alive to the 'dead pile'. Another form of death is called

captive bold head stunning. This is when a pistol of some kind is

aimed at the animals head. A metal rod is shot into the brain, often

missing the point of unconsciousness and has to be repeated. Another

way of death is Electric head stunning, this is when an electric

stunner is used to give the animal a seizure. When the animal is

shocked, where it is often not unconscious and can still feel pain,

the animals throat is cut. Farming has become the number one threat to

our animals.

We must remember unseen they suffer, unheard they cry, in agony they

linger, in loneliness they die. You can make a difference, you can be

their voice.

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