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End Animal Cruelty Now
If We Don’t Speak Up For The Voiceless, Who Will?
I am deeply disturbed by the horrors which occur all over the world associated with the barbaric practice of testing medication and products on defenseless animals. It is far past time for this inhumane practice to stop. We as a society should have evolved enough to understand how unnecessary and cruel using animals to test the safety and effectiveness of products is. To continue this method is not only cruel but ignorant. We should seek to rise above the archaic ways and implement kinder, more intelligent, and enlightened methods and practices in science and other areas where animals are an element.
Animal cruelty has always been difficult for me to accept. I can’t stand the idea of any animal suffering needlessly. Society has advanced significantly over the decades, and with those advances has come the understanding of how nonverbal creatures understand and experience their environment. We now know nonhuman animals can experience a wide range of emotions. They can experience joy, excitement, frustration, anger, and fear. We should drastically change how we treat animals in every setting because of these discoveries.
The responsible response would be to research how to minimize suffering and not exploit defenseless, innocent creatures by using them for cruel and pointless experiments which cause them unimaginable…
