Animal Rights Facts

Animal Rights Facts

1. In China, dogs are raised and sold for their fur and meat.
2. In Spain, at the end of hunting season, when the dogs are of no further "use" to the hunters, they are hanged to death and left to rot.
3. At the end of the racing season, dogs are brought to be killed.
4. Brenda Spencer, who fired 40 shots into a crowd of children, murdering 2 and wounding 9, had a history of setting the tails of neighborhood cats and dogs on fire.
5. In a 1995 Associated Press survey, 67% agreed that it is seldom or never right to test cosmetics on animals.
6. In a 1999 Decision Research survey, 74% agreed that an animal's right to live free of suffering should be just as important as a person's right to live free of suffering.
7. There are presently nearly 500 alternatives available to dissection for science education.
8. Each year, an estimated 27 million animals in the U.S. are used in research, testing, and education. Over 2 million ani¬mals are killed in dissection classes.
9. While being smuggled from country to country, parrots have their beaks and feet taped and are stuffed into plastic tubes that can easily be hidden in luggage.
10. Virginia Reptile Rescue estimates that of the millions of iguanas imported annually, 75 percent are dead within a year.
11. Mice and rats are not protected by any anti-cruelty laws, nor are any research facilities required to account for any testing procedures on them.
12. In China there are about 7,000 moon bears kept in tiny cages for twenty years with painful catheters inserted into their gull bladders to extract their bile.
13. In China, cats and dogs are skinned for their fur, and their fur is shipped all over the world.
14. Large pressure cookers are used to liquefy cats to produce "goyangi soju," a tonic believed to cure rheumatism, as well as a variety of other ailments.
15. One of the most savage rituals of cruelty toward animals is Brazil's Farra do Boi. Farra do boi, loosely translated as "Festival of the Oxen" or "Ox Fun Days," involves the torture-killing of several hundred oxen each year in more than thirty communities throughout the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. This evil festival begins with starving the oxen for two days, with food in plain sight but out of reach.
16. The frustration caused by prolonged imprisonment in small cages forces animals to adopt psychotic behavior such as eating their own excrement.
17. Jack Russell terriers are among the more common "meat dogs".
18. Merino sheep, which have an exceptionally high quality fleece, also get folds in their skin in which blowflies like to lay their eggs. Instead of providing proper care and compassion, these unscrupulous farmers (ranchers) tie the lambs down and cut these folds out of a fully conscious animal, as a so-called "preventive" measure for eliminating "flystrike". This "procedure" is called mulesing.
19. Each year, approximately 4,000,000 baby Karakul lambs are killed within a day or two of their birth to make Persian lamb fur coats and trim.
20. The largest source of female hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications comes from pregnant mares' urine.
21. Female pigs used for breeding (called 'breeding sows' by industry) are confined most of their lives in 'gestation crates' which are so small that they cannot even turn around
22. Thermal injury experiments on rabbits are popular among the vivisection community.
23. Rabbits are often used in experiments where a substance is dripped into their eye. These are the so-called "Draize" eye tests. Rabbits are used because they have poor tear ducts and can't get the substance out of their eye by blinking as humans can.
24. Researchers often graft the head of one dog onto other dogs just to demonstrate that they have the power to do so.
25. Billions of our tax dollars and charitable donations are given to research facilities where animals are tormented.