Re: The Day of the Bullies

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On Jun 29, 11:39 am, "pearl" <t...@signguestbook.ie> wrote:
> The Day of the Bullies
> Published by cyrano2 at 8:18 am under American Capitalism,
> Animal Cruelty, Animal Liberation, Corporatism, Cruel Idiots,
> Empathy Deficient, Exploitation
>
> By David Irving
> 6/29/08
>
> Conservatively speaking, approximately 100 million vertebrates in the
> world are experimented upon annually by the animal research industry
> of which approximately 22 million animals belong to the United States.
> Most of the animals are killed after research. While the animal research
> industry has managed successfully to brain wash the public into
> thinking animal research consists primarily of medical research, that
> is not the case. A large portion of animal research takes place in the
> cosmetics industry, the military, the EPA, the FDA, private research
> laboratories for industrial use, animal food companies, and others.
>
> As an example, hundreds of thousands of military experiments have
> been conducted on animals in the greatest secrecy at a cost to taxpayers
> of over 100 million dollars annually. The military shoots, blasts, burns,
> scalds, and poisons animals. It subjects them to radiation, nerve gas,
> mustard gas, breaks their bones, and tortures them in every conceivable
> manner like attaching cartons of mosquitoes to restrained monkeys and
> rabbits so that the mosquitoes will feed on them in mosquito virus tests.
> Animals don't make war, but they are made to suffer the consequences
> of the brutal wars human beings wage.
>
> The March of Dimes is famous for experiments in which their
> researchers sewed the eyelids of kittens shut for a year in visual
> development tests before killing them. The visual development they
> claimed to study occurs in cats after birth while it occurs in humans
> before birth so that the tests were meaningless. The March of Dimes has
> also conducted research funded by tobacco companies to show that
> nicotine had beneficial effects. Research at the March of Dimes has also
> included implanting electric pumps into the backs of pregnant rats to
> inject them with nicotine and cocaine even though the hazards of
> smoking and cocaine to human babies is well known. Other addiction
> testing has been done by university researchers like Ron Woods who
> locked baboons in refrigerators filled with cocaine smoke in drug
> addition studies. The subject of how unjust it is, not to mention
> immoral and decadent, to experiment upon animals to try to solve the
> addiction problems human beings have created for themselves is
> never considered. That includes Columbia University where
> researchers have repeatedly operated on baboons and their babies in
> utero to measure the flow of nicotine through the umbilical chord.
>
> The IAMS pet food company also engages in animal research projects.
> Their research has included confining dogs and cats in small, barren
> cages for as long as six years in which the dogs were debarked by
> cutting their vocal chords and then forced to endure painful surgery in
> which their gums were repeatedly cut and sutured to implant gingivitis,
> though gingivitis could have been studied on dogs that had developed
> the condition normally.
>
> The cosmetics industry is another giant in the world of animal research.
> Procter and Gamble, for example, tests cosmetics for irritancy by
> locking rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, ferrets and other animals into
> restraining devices and then applying burning chemicals to their eyes
> and shaved portions of their skin. This is done without sedation or
> pain killers and causes excruciating pain. Some of the animals strain
> so forcefully against their restraints in these tests that they actually
> break their backs trying to escape. Those that survive are put through
> additional tests until they are finally killed. When chemicals are dripped
> into the eyes of these animals, it is called the Draize Test, and many in
> the medical community agree it is useless and unnecessary. More than
> 600 other companies produce the same kind of products that Proctor
> and Gamble makes without resorting to animal testing. Donated
> corneas to which chemicals may be applied and human skin cultures
> for irritancy testing are also available as alternatives to these animal
> testing procedures and are less expensive. However, Procter and
> Gamble refuses to abandon this senseless research because it does
> not want to admit it is wrong. The FDA continues to approve it. All
> so that we can have better kitchen products, better make-up, mascara,
> and all those other necessities Procter and Gamble makes.
>
> None of this research discussed we've been discussing takes curiosity
> research into account, for example, subjecting restrained primates to a
> continuous three hour-long studio-generated sound ten decibels louder
> than a shotgun blast, a research project conducted at New York
> University.
>
> The above research does not take into account the abuse of animals
> by supposedly legitimate medical researchers that continuously comes
> to light year after year after year as, for example, at Huntingdon
> Laboratories in England where researchers were photographed hitting
> puppies, shouting at them, simulating sex acts with them, and
> dissecting what appeared to be a live monkey. As reported by a
> whistleblower at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who
> was able to back most of her charges with 59 videotapes in tests for
> alcohol, dopamine, and nicotine, rodents were infected with oversized
> tumors so large the animals could hardly carry them around and some
> of the tumors ulcerated and burst; a researcher broke the necks of
> rats to get rid of those for which she had no need; rodents have been
> packed together under such crowded conditions that they suffocated
> to death and resorted to cannibalism; mice with untended teeth grew
> so long that they could not eat and some of them starved to death; a
> researcher jokingly held up a tiny white mouse and said, "Say Bye,
> bye," and then beheaded her with a pair of scissors; rats screamed
> when being beheaded with scissors without anesthesia or numbing
> agents; and researchers have amputated the toes of rodents for
> identification purposes.
>
> The animal industry is a huge, parasitic gravy train dependent upon
> mass brain washing of the public through continuous public relations
> efforts and 100 million innocent creatures subjected to enslavement
> and torture by human beings. The abuse and exploitation of animals
> in the world today is representative of a primitive reliance on the
> worst instincts of human beings.
>
> "I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them
> fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be
> violated any more than those of humans. - Jimmy Stewart
>
> "It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong,
> something the best people have always done. - Harriet Beecher
> Stowe
>
> ".when we removed the body (of his cagemate) to the operation
> room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days.
> The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again
> to experiment with such sensitive creatures. - Dr. Christian Barnard
> (Founder of Physicians for Responsible Medicine)
>
> "I believe I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces
> results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. To know
> that the results are profitable to the race would not remove my
> hostility to it. The pains which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals
> is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient
> justification of enmity without looking further. - Mark Twain
>
> "Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge,
> it does so at the expense of human character. - George Bernard Shaw
>
> "To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than the life of a
> human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the
> sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature,
> the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
> - Mahatma Gandhi
>
> "It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all
> life is the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or
> expressed in negative terms: "Though shalt not kill." We take this
> prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flower, thoughtlessly
> stepping on a poor insect, thoughtlessly, in terrible blindness
> because everything takes its revenge, disregarding the suffering and
> lives of our fellow men, sacrificing them to trivial earthly goals.
>
> Reverence for life comprises the whole ethic of love in its deepest
> and highest sense. It is the source of constant renewal for the
> individual and for mankind. - Albert Schweitzer
>
> ".the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds
> a pang as great
> As when a giant dies. - William Shakespeare
>
> [   ]
> This is what happens with the Draize test. I hope they're proud of
> themselves. No wonder Schopenhaurer wrote what he wrote!
>
> David Irving is a Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude graduate of
> Columbia University, class of 1980, School of General Studies.
> He subsequently obtained his Masters in Music Composition at
> Columbia and founded the new music organization Phoenix in
> New York City.
>
> 2 Responses to "The Day of the Bullies"
>
> # Bill Cooganon 29 Jun 2008 at 10:33 am
> Thank you for such a great article. I have been an advocate of animal
> rights for many years and support all the wonderful organizations that
> do the hard work in front of and behind the scenes, such as PETA,
> Last Chance for Animals, The American Anti-Vivsection Society,
> IFAW, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, HSUS,
> Friends of Animals, WSAP, and so many other large and small groups.
> Animal 'research' is big money and big business, so write to your
> congressmen and senators and tell them it must end..and never
> patronize any company or organization that directly or indirectly uses
> animals for their profits.
>
> # Gail Nelsonon 29 Jun 2008 at 10:52 am
> I hope this article gets people's attention on this very important issue.
> I worked in an NIH lab as a student and was horrified by what I saw
> there. I have been a wildlife rehabilitator and take in abused pets. I
> wonder often why some humans have no empathy for what they do
> to these living breathing feeling creatures. Personally as we rebuild the
> world that is now on its way out, we should absolutely never do this
> to the animals again. Otherwise, living in harmony will never be, unless
> all the monkeys, bunnies, dogs, cats, rats, and all other animals are
> respected for their own life force and contribution to our ecology.
> Imagine being totally helpless and having these things done to you.
> Imagine being bred for food and kept in the horrible conditions our
> cows, pigs and sheep are made to endure. Give generously to these
> organizations, and if you can't afford it, then give time to help out.
>
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