Animal testing....
animal testing is used for just about everything. from the makeup you wear to the medicine you take animal testing is used to test so see if the product may be harmfull to humans or not....
Animals have no choice in the matter, they are used for testing and often form abnormalities due to the testing of the product these range from extra limbs to blindness and skin burns.
some statistics....
in 2008 827 million ground animals were killed for human consumption.
American taxpayers pay the goverment $12 billion on funding for Animal Testing a year
2002 National Primate Experimentation Funding Estimate
Total of NIH-funded Primate Grants 1483 x $300,000 =
$444,900,000
Total of Specific large Primate Grants (i.e. Primate Center base grants, etc.)
$ 57,391,729
Total DOD projects 68 x $300,000 =
$ 20,400,000
Other Federal Agencies (USDA, EPA, NASA, etc.) probably over
$ 7,000,000
Estimate Total Federal Spending on Primate Experimentation
~$530,000,000
In america alone in 2007 this was only a fraction of the species tested on and there total count... since 2007 it is belived that the amount of animals tested on has increased substantualy....
66,610 dogs
57,531 primates
58,598 pigs
245,786 rabbits
22,921 cats
176,988 hamsters
64,146 other farm animals
32,260 sheep
231,440 other animals
221,286 guinea pigs
What can you do? ....
STOP! buying products that have been tested on animals and help rebell against the crulty that is being inflicted on poor defencless animals
I mean how would you feel if theis was your pet?
