Imagine yourself... Locked inside a cage without any control of your life

You can’t choose what you eat, or where you liveYou can’t even know whether it’s day or night.

You don’t know where your life will end upEven though you have committed no crime?

Welcome to the life of a laboratory animal. Isolation and misery.

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ANIMAL TESTING

ANIMAL TESTING

G e n e r a l Vivisection

The use of animals in experiments

Animals are used to test products from shampoos to cancer treatments

For medical/ cosmetics/ science research

Mostly mice, rats and rabbits

W h a t ’ s h a p p e n i n g ?

115 millions animal are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the US

8 million in painful experiments

At least 10% of the lab animals do not receive painkillers

After the experiment, surviving animals are killed

Beliefs in animal moral rights decrease in age, with the highest support from 18 to 29

S a y Y e s ?

Necessary for the advance of biological research

Human is ‘superior’ to animals

Moral rights aren’t applied to

animals

To save human, animals sacrifice

o r N o ?A crime Animals do feel pain Human evolved from animals Right to live as a subject of nature Not reliable

1655, physiology Edmund O’Meara argued: "the miserable torture of vivisection places the body in an unnatural state.”

400 different methods that can

effectively replace animal experiments

= > Experiments can be achieved

without abusing animals

Experts Experts

Imagine one of your family member is in pain and suffering from a threatening

disease

They have committed no crime

DILEMMADILEMMA

So far…

Ethical dilemmaUntil we have better solutions, we must use animal

testingMake sure minimum of suffering

Conclusion

Make a better worldMake a better world

Bibliography

• http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1013/1223680463658.html

• http://www.geocities.com/paws_n_tails/AnimalTestingFacts.html

• http://www.buzzle.com/articles/animal-testing-facts.html

• http://www.animalport.com/animal-testing/animal-testing-facts-figures.html

• http://www.animaltestingfacts.zoomshare.com/• http://www.stopanimaltests.com/AnimalsinLabs.asp