The search for more sophisticated ways to kill and mutilate our fellow human beings goes on, and as a direct result sheep, dogs, pigs, cows, rats, guinea pigs and monkeys are used to develop and test weapons of every type, from the traditional ones to the chemical, nuclear and biological.
Some examples: testing of tear-gas on the eyes of live rabbits. Monkeys and other animals are exposed to nervine gas; dogs are given cianidric poisonous acid; sheep get shot with any type of bullets; pigs are burnt alive to study the burnings, and so on.
At the Royal Victoria Hospital of Belfast (Ireland), a crowd of physicians and surgeons stated that all these experiments have no scientific value.
Animal reared for experimental purposes
Animal used in vivisection can come directly from the wild, from public and private kennels, or from special farms. The majority of the animals captured from the wild are monkeys, whose nightmare starts when they are torn away from their environment, eventually after the other member of the group have been killed. 70% of the monkeys die during transport, from psychic and physical traumas, hunger, thirst, anguish and stifling. Cats and dogs are stolen from private people and then sold to the research laboratories, or they are provided by special farming. The research animal business is economically very lucrative.
