My animal experiment article – the dangers to humans

This started off as wanting to find a couple of examples of the dangers to humans , but sadly I just keep on finding more and more examples.So decided to put them altogether and wrote this. I have sent this to many of my friends and people who didnt know anything about vivisection. Because a lot of it came from already establised websites adn from searching through newspapers, magasines , online articles etc etc. Hope it’s of some use to people , feel free to copy it and show it too as many people as possible and please also let me know if there are any more examples I have missed, which of course there will be millions. Also just let me know generally what you think of it.
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ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS -THE HIDDEN TRUTH

Every year in the UK alone , millions of animals die as a result of animal experiments,either directly from the experiments, during transportation from either the breeding centres based both in the UK or abroad and also hunted from the wild, with babies been of more use so usually the mothers are killed so hunters can get to the babies(which also leaves more babies without their mother so usually die aswell) or are killed becuase they are “surplus to requirements”.
The government figures given out (so of course it will be more) say that in 2004 some 2.85million animals in England were used and killed in experiments,again this does not include all those who died during transportation,hunted from the wild or were “surplus”. If this is the figure in the UK alone, what is the real number if you included the world. Reports show an estimated 5 to 6million animals are bred but then killed due to “been surplus to requirements” in the UK alone each year. Also the half a million+ animals bred for their body parts and tissues are not included in government figures. Or when there are genetic requirements, many animals will be killed because they are imperfect. Also it does not include those animals that died before experiments, lab figures for mice alone have been shown to be one dying for every four in experiments. Nor does it include those animals that were still born,or close to death at birth, from either their mothers been experimented on while pregnant or were still born from stress related complications during pregnancy or other complications and abuse during pregnancy. Nor does this UK figure include animals used for breeding , when these animals reach the end of their productive breeding life they are killed .
So as you can imagine the real figure will be many millions more, just in the UK alone and the number is on the INCREASE not decrease .
Reports say that world wide the animals used in experiments could be over 100million ,this not including all the other above examples.

The type of animals used for experiments in the UK range from, fish,reptiles,amphibians,birds,pigs,sheep,goats,cattle,primates,ferrets, horses/donkeys/crossbreeds, dogs,cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, mice ,rats …….. other animals are used in other countries including elephants .
And also the cost to the NHS each year is approx £500million from Adverse Drug Reactions .
Adverse Drug Reactions is the 4th biggest killer in the UK , with over 10s of 1000s of people dying each year and countless others being permantly scarred. In the USA this figure is nearer 100’000 people.

According to a report released in Washington in August 2002, the leading cause of death in the US is now recognised to be ADRs. No longer heart attacks, cardio-vascular accidents nor cancer, but animal-tested pharmaceutical products.
In the UK deaths from ADRs being the 4th biggest killer , elicited the following statement in the British Medical Journal: “the complexity and reach of modern medicines have come to represent new levels of harm to patients?? More people in Great Britain die from adverse reactions to medical drugs each year, than are killed on the roads”. (BMJ 15 April 02.)
It is also believed that only 5-10% of ADRs are reported , as physicians usually do not take the time to fill in the huge amount of necessary paperwork and start an investigation and as reporting ADRs is voluntary not mandatory .
A report in the Telegraph paper on 12/5/06 said about Adverse Drug Reactions – ” Tens of thousands of patients are suffering adverse reactions to drugs with at least 250,000 needing to be admitted to hospital every year at a cost to the NHS of nearly £500MILLION. Serious reactions can kill or cause respiratory failure or heart attacks. Lesser reactions can cause rashes, muscle pain and dizziness and many other symptoms.But doctors are notoriously bad at reporting such problems, often because they feel that minor reactions are so well known there is no need to do so. Others are so rarely seen by individual doctors that they do not make the link.Dr Vivienne Nathanson, the head of science at the BMA, said yesterday that only about 10 per cent of adverse reactions are reported, according to research.”
Compelling reasons to assess the efficacy of animal tests include:

Several published studies assessing the prediction of drug side effects by animals have found them to be very poor predictors; correct only 5-25% of the time.
92% of drugs fail in clinical trials, having successfully passed through animal studies.
Sophisticated new methods of assessing drug safety include human tissues, DNA chips, virtual metabolism simulators and microdosing with PET and AMS scanners.
A new study of animal and in vitro methods of predicting teratogenicity (potential to cause birth defects) spanning 40 years has found animal tests to be ineffective.
Scores of treatments for stroke have tested safe and effective in animals in recent years but not a single one has emerged as safe and effective for patients.
82% of doctors in an independent survey in 2004 were “concerned that animal data can be misleading when applied to humans” and 83% would “support an independent scientific evaluation of the clinical relevance of animal experimentation.”
The Toxicology Working Group of the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures in 2002 recommended that “the reliability and relevance of all existing animal tests should be reviewed as a matter of urgency.”
A 2004 paper in the British Medical Journal concluded that “the contribution of animal studies to clinical medicine requires urgent formal evaluation.”
The recent Health Committee inquiry into the influence of the pharmaceutical industry concluded that the regulatory standards for new drug approval require urgent review.
This Government came to power promising a Royal Commission on animal experimentation. Yet Home Office Minister Caroline Flint stated in 2004 that the Government “has not commissioned or evaluated any formal research on the efficacy of animal experiments and has no plans to do so.”

The Europeans for Medical Progress state:
Human health has suffered enormously thanks to animal research, which has misled and delayed medical progress for decades. Smoking cigarettes and eating lots of cholesterol were given the thumbs-up by animal experimentation. Probably no two mistakes have cost as many lives. There is significant and growing doubt about animal experimentation amongst the scientific community. 83% of GPs want to see animal testing scientifically evaluated, as do thousands of doctors and scientists represented by Europeans for Medical Progress
In The Oxford Student 9/6/06 , an article titled ‘Vivisection is not a reliable means of testing human drugs’ by Kathy Archibald director of patient safety organisation Europeans for Medical Progress says :
The track record of primate research is abysmal: 80 AIDS vaccines have failed in human trials following success in primates; likewise 150 stroke treatments. Research on primates, including great apes, has failed to produce treatments for any of our leading killers, including heart disease, cancer and malaria. The polio vaccine was “long delayed by misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys” according to its inventor, Dr Albert Sabin.
Professor Tipu Aziz has claimed that his surgical treatment for Parkinson’s disease arose from monkey experiments but, in truth, the technique was discovered in humans – as is the case with virtually all medical advances. All of the claims made in the booklet launched by Professors Blakemore, Aziz and others are contradicted in a recent scientific review which can be viewed at http://www.curedisease.net/reports/index.shtml.
Overwhelming evidence shows that animals are not reliable predictors of human reactions.
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Primates have contributed no information of clinical value to Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s treatment: virtually everything we know about these diseases has been learned by studying patients, their tissues and their families. “It is in human tissue that we will find the answers to these diseases,” according to the Director of the Cambridge Brain Bank Laboratory.
Research on primates, including great apes, has failed to produce treatments for any of our leading killers, including heart disease, cancer, stroke and malaria. Infectious disease research in species other than man is futile, as pathogens and immune responses are highly species specific. The polio vaccine was “long delayed by… misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys,” according to its inventor, Dr Albert Sabin.
Claims that the scientific community overwhelmingly supports animal experimentation do not stand up to scrutiny. An independent survey of 500 GPs in August 2004 found that 82% of doctors are “concerned that animal data can be misleading when applied to humans” and 83% would “support an independent scientific evaluation of the clinical relevance of animal experimentation”. The (2002) Toxicology Working Group of the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures recommended that “the reliability and relevance of all existing animal tests should be reviewed as a matter of urgency.”

Experiments at Oxford University include the stiching up of kittins eyes and implanying elctrodes into their brains, otehr similiar experiments on kittens all to try and understand migranes in humans! It was later admittied that cats do not suffer from migranes.This after £millions was spent of tax payers money. All this and yet cats vision differs massivly from humans.
The following statements are from – Protecting Animals in Democracy :
Compelling reasons to assess the efficacy of animal tests include:
Several published studies assessing the prediction of drug side effects by animals have found them to be very poor predictors; correct only 5-25% of the time.
92% of drugs fail in clinical trials, having successfully passed through animal studies.
Sophisticated new methods of assessing drug safety include human tissues, DNA chips, virtual metabolism simulators and microdosing with PET and AMS scanners.
A new study of animal and in vitro methods of predicting teratogenicity (potential to cause birth defects) spanning 40 years has found animal tests to be ineffective.
Scores of treatments for stroke have tested safe and effective in animals in recent years but not a single one has emerged as safe and effective for patients.
82% of doctors in an independent survey in 2004 were “concerned that animal data can be misleading when applied to humans” and 83% would “support an independent scientific evaluation of the clinical relevance of animal experimentation.”
The Toxicology Working Group of the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures in 2002 recommended that “the reliability and relevance of all existing animal tests should be reviewed as a matter of urgency.”
A 2004 paper in the British Medical Journal concluded that “the contribution of animal studies to clinical medicine requires urgent formal evaluation.”

Examples of why animal experiments are a danger to human health

Most recenlty there was the TGN1412 monoclonal antibody trial disaster , and reports show that the animals, including monkeys and rabbbits, were given doses up to 500times stronger than that given to the humans!
Penicillin , for example was nearly thrown away never to save human lives becuase in animal tests it gave misleading results in rabbits and later tests showed it killed guinea pigs. Fleming later admitted that misleading results from animal testing almost prevented discovery of the entire field of antibiotics.Sir Alexander Fleming himself said: ‘How fortunate we didn’t have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably never have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.’
Thalidomide, the infamous cause of birth defects in more than 10,000 children in the early 1960s, induces birth defects in very few species. Dr James Schardein, the doyen of birth defect studies, says: ‘In approximately 10 strains of rats, 15 strains of mice, 11 breeds of rabbits, two breeds of dogs, three strains of hamsters, eight species of primates, and in other such varied species as cats, armadillos, guinea pigs, swine and ferrets in which thalidomide has been tested, teratogenic effects have been induced only occasionally.’ Ironically, if thalidomide, the drug whose side effects made animal testing obligatory, were assessed exclusively on its results in such tests it would still be passed today.
Hormone-replacement therapy (HRT), prescribed to many millions of women because it lowered monkeys’ risk of heart disease and stroke, increases women’s risks of these conditions significantly. The chairman of the German Commission on the Safety of Medicines described HRT as ‘the new thalidomide’. In August 2003 The Lancet estimated that HRT had caused 20,000 cases of breast cancer over the past decade in Britain, in addition to many thousands of heart attacks and strokes.
Hundreds of drugs to treat strokes (eg, Cerestat, MaxiPost, Zendra, Lotrafiban, gavestinel, nimodipine, clomethiazole) have been found
safe and effective in animal studies and then injured or
killed patients in clinical trials
Dr Richard Klausner, former director of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), lamented: ‘The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn’t work in humans.’ The NCI also believes we have lost cures for cancer because they were ineffective in mice.
6-azauridine (a cancer drug) can be used by people for long periods of time, but in dogs tiny doses produce potentially lethal results in a few days.
Influenza virs A/PR/8/34 does not infect humans but causes a serious disease in ferrets,
Zacopride is effeective in preventing vomiting caused by poisons in humans, but in ferrits is cusews retching and vomiting,
Phenylbutazone is metabolised slowly in humans, but in dogs it disappears in hours , oxyphenylbutazone has a half life of 30minutes in dogs , but 72 hours in humans.
Gastric dilation problems in dogs has no comparable disease in humans,
Penicillin injected into the muscles of horses can cause extremely adverse reactions , in some cases death.
Unlike people. pigs can tolerate transplant tissue for months without drugs to suppress the immune system,
Guinea pigs can only breath through their noses ,
In experiments to try to “model” dermatitis (skin inflammation) in guinea pigs , it was discovered that the symptoms casued did not mimic chemical demrmatitis in humans,
A drug used succesfully for Legionnaires’ disease in patients did not prevent deaths in infected guinea pigs,
Chloramphenicol does not have the adverse effect in monkeys and dogs as it has in people,
Herpes B virus in monkeys may cuase lesions on the face ,lips, mouth and body. Monkeys can carry the virus without suffering the disease: in humans, the disease is rare but is almost always fatal.
It is believed that the behavoiur of captive primates triggers the release of endorphins (natural opiates) in the brain , altering hormone levels , appeite and how pain is experienced.
Gout is caused by excess uric acid which is produced in monkeys, apes and humans, but only humans get gout.
After a project using over 18’000 mice , Teropterin was used to treat acute childhood leukaemia ; but the children died more quickly than if they had not been treated.
Digitalis while dangerously raising blood pressure in dogs continues to save countless cardiac patients by lowering heart rate.
Cigarette smoke, asbestos, arsenic, benzene, alcohol and glass fibres are all safe to ingest, according to animal studies.
Of 22 drugs shown to have been therapeutic in spinal cord injury in animals, not one is effective in humans.
Of 20 compounds known not to cause cancer in humans, 19 do cause cancer in rodents.
Dr Albert Sabin, the inventor of the polio vaccine, swore under oath that the vaccine ‘was long delayed by the erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based on misleading experimental models of [it] in monkeys’.
Another example is the National Cancer Institute (NCI). For 35 years it tried out 400,000 chemicals in millions of mice deliberately bred to develop leukemia. The NCI was looking for anti-tumour chemicals, but this approach was not effective
Of the 198 drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration from 1976-1985, 51.5% had serious side effects. The effects were serious enough to cause withdrawal of the drug or, more often, relabelling with more danger warnings. Effects included heart failure, shock, breathing difficulties, seizures, kidney failure, liver failure and death. Remember that all these drugs had passed animal tests before going on the market.
In 1995 there were 130,950 reports of adverse drug reactions made to the US Food and Drug Administration.
Over the years many drugs that passed animal tests were subsequently withdrawn after causing injury and even death to humans. For example:
Clioquinol (Entero-Vioform, Mexaform), an anti-diarrhoea drug. It caused the nervous system disosrder, subacute myelo-optic neuropathy in Japan. At least 10,000 people suffered walking difficulties, numbness, paralysis or eye problems, including blindness.
Benoxaprofen (Opren), an anti-arthritis drug. It caused 3500 adverse reactions and 61 deaths in the UK alone. Deaths were due to liver damage.
Other anti-arthritis drugs withdrawn from sale due to adverse reactions and deaths include Zomax, Flosint, Alclofenac, Ibufenac, and Osmosin .
Zimelidine (Zelmid), an anti-depressant. It caused 300 adverse reactions in the UK, including liver damage and convulsions. It also produced 7 deaths.
Practolol (Eraldin), a heart drug. It caused severe eye problems, including blindness, and 23 deaths in the UK. Eventually 1000 people were compensated by the drug company for injuries.
The injectable contraceptive Depo-provera causes uterine cancer in baboons and mammary cancer in dogs. Based on these “compelling” animal tests, the American FDA (Food and Drug Administration) banned the drug in humans.
However, 20 years’ human experience in countries, which ignored the animal tests, subsequently convinced the FDA that the drug was safe for humans. The artificial sweetener, saccharine, causes bladder cancer in rats, yet it is freely sold in supermarkets. Cyclosporin, the wonder drug given to human transplant patients to help prevent organ rejection, is highly toxic to the human kidney, the liver and the nervous system. This problem has not been observed in the dog or the cat. The drug Tamoxifen, given to women to prevent breast cancer, actually causes liver cancer in rats.
painkiller, ibuprofen, causes kidney failure in dogs, even at low doses.
A drug successfully used for Legionnaires disease in humans did not prevent deaths in infected guinea pigs. The cancer drug 6-azauridine can be used in humans for long periods ,but in dogs small doses produce potentially lethal results in a few days.
Corticosteroids: These have been shown to cause cancer in some rodents, despite their being used safely by humans for years. Depo-Provera: This contraceptive was barred from release in the US in 1973 because it caused cancer in dogs and baboons. FK506: This anti-rejection drug was almost shelved before it proceeded to clinical trials. After experimenting on dogs, researchers said animal toxicity was too severe to proceed to the clinical trial stage. Furosemide: Mice, rats and hamsters suffer liver damage from this diuretic, but humans do not. It is widely prescribed for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart disease. Isoniazid: This medication, commonly used for treating tuberculosis, caused cancer in animals.
There are more than 200 different forms of human cancer. Some of these have counterparts in animals, although even these differ greatly from those in humans in terms of cause, effect, treatment and prognosis. An histiocytoma is fatal in humans but benign in dogs, as all cancers have species-specific effects.
Ironically, in the 1950s the only known carcinogens were those found by studying humans epidemiologically, the authors explain. “A study of dyeworkers showed a high incidence of bladder cancer,” they write. “Droves of dyed lab animals failed to prove the rule. Chromium was found to be carcinogenic in humans but not in animals. The link between radiation and cancer was also reported from clinical studies by that time. In 1956, British doctors warned of carcinogenic effects of X-rays given during pregnancy, resulting in childhood cancers. But no amount of irradiated pregnant quadrupeds necessarily produced the same effect.
“In these instances and many others, the inability to validate carcinogenicity in animals kept cancer-causing agents legal for a much longer time.”
Asbestos is another example. The link between cancer and asbestos was made as long ago as 1907; but, after scientists failed to induce the disease in animals, it took more than 30 years before the human-model evidence became irrefutable.
Ray and Jean Greek point out that, between 1970 and 1985, researchers subjected an estimated 300 to 400 million animals to more than half a million compounds to check for anticancer effects. Based on these animal experiments, only 80 compounds progressed to clinical trials. Just 24 proved to have any anticancer activity in humans, and, of these, 12 went on to have a substantial role in chemotherapy. But, all 12 of these compounds were chemical variations of previously known chemotherapeutic agents. The fact that these chemicals could be used to fight cancer had already been predicted by their chemical structure. In other words, for 15 years, billions of dollars of investment money was ploughed into subjecting millions of animals to the most painful, cruel and barbaric procedures and then killing them, all of which proved nothing new.
One of the most serious arguments against animal testing is that the results obtained from experiments on animals do not accurately show the effects of a tested substance on humans. Professor Pietro Croce, an Italian, was a vivisector for many years, and now campaigns against animal testing. Amongst the examples he gives of animals giving misleading results when compared with humans are:
Arsenic, a poison to humans is harmless to the sheep. Sheep, goats, horses and mice can also eat hemlock in huge quantities – whereas it is a poison to humans.
Lemon juice is poisonous to cats.
A hedgehog can eat enough opium at one sitting to keep a hardened drug addict high for a fortnight.
Morphine is an anaesthetic for humans, yet if it is given to cats, it produces a state of frenzied excitement.
Vitamin C is not needed at all by dogs, rats, hamsters and mice, as their bodies produce Vitamin C of their own accord. If humans, primates or guinea-pigs are deprived of Vitamin C, they can die of scurvy.
Simply inhaling the fumes of prussic acid is enough to kill humans, yet it can be drunk without harm by toads, sheep and hedgehogs.
Scopolamine can kill humans with a dose of just 5 milligrams. Dogs and cats find 100 milligrams harmless. This is very worrying when it comes to working out safe dosages, as it is calculated by looking at the relationship between body mass and dosage. If we take the average cat to weigh 4 kilograms and the average human to weigh 70 kilograms, this means the correct dose of scopolamine for a human would be 1800 milligrams – 360 times the actual safe dose.
Examples from nature , salt which in excess quantities kills all species of birds, while Amanita phalloides (death cap fungus) is totally harmless to slugs and squirrels.

Another example is the number of micrograms of dioxin per kilo of body weight required to kill 50% of subjects during LD50 tests (LD = lethal dose):
• female rat, 45 micrograms per kilo
• male rat, 22 mg/kilo
• guinea pig, 1 mg/kilo
• hamster, 5,000 mg/kilo
The huge variations in toxicity for such similar animals is proof that such data cannot be transposed to human beings.

Corticosteroids: These have been shown to cause cancer in some rodents, despite their being used safely by humans for years.
Depo-Provera: This contraceptive was barred from release in the US in 1973 because it caused cancer in dogs and baboons.
FK506: This anti-rejection drug was almost shelved before it proceeded to clinical trials. After experimenting on dogs, researchers said animal toxicity was too severe to proceed to the clinical trial stage.
Furosemide: Mice, rats and hamsters suffer liver damage from this diuretic, but humans do not. It is widely prescribed for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart disease.
Prilosec: The release of this gastrointestinal medication was delayed for 12 years because of an effect in animals which did not occur in humans.
Streptomycin: This popular antibiotic caused birth defects such as limb malformations in the offspring of rats.
Rezulin (Troglitazone)
This drug, intended to treat type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes, was approved by the FDA in 1997. Rezulin lowered the blood sugar in rats without producing adverse effects, but reports of severe and even fatal liver failure appeared immediately after approval. Due largely to an aggressive investigation by the Los Angeles Times and after four label changes, Rezulin was withdrawn in 2000 after 391 deaths were attributed to the drug
Cylert (Pemoline)
Fifteen children suffered acute liver failure after taking this attention deficit hyperactivity disorder treatment, and 12 of those cases resulted in liver transplant or death. No animal tests that showed an indication of hepatic toxicity could be found.
The Medical Research Modernization Committee (MRMC), an American organisation for doctors who are against animal testing, states that vivisection makes it easy for scientists to quickly come up with ‘new’ and ‘exciting’ research. All they have to do is take existing data and change the animal species being experimented on to produce a different result. This allows researchers to publish their findings regularly, and enables them to find funding for future research. Frequently though, these experiments produce no data useful to the advance of human medicine.
The MRMC also suggests that trying to learn about treating diseases such as cancer and AIDS using animal testing is a waste of time and money. They claim that since 1971, when the National Cancer Act was passed in the US, billions of dollars have been spent on possible cancer cures, but have yielded little in the way of new treatments. A major reason for this, MRMC suggests, is that cancers in animals develop and progress in very different ways to cancers in humans. In 1986, two time Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling wrote
“Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.”
Former director of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) Richard Klausner lamented: “The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn’t work in humans.”
The NCI also believes we have lost cures for cancer because they were ineffective in mice. Cigarette smoke, asbestos, arsenic and benzene are all safe to ingest, according to animal studies. Conversely, of 20 compounds known not to cause cancer in humans, 19 do cause cancer in rodents. Seven hundred drugs to treat strokes have been found safe and effective in animal studies. Of the 150 tried so far on patients in clinical trials, not a single one is safe and effective. Thirty Aids vaccines have likewise failed in clinical trials after successful studies in primates.
It has been known among scientists and the pharmaceutical industry for decades that animal testing is scientifically unreliable. As long ago as 1962 The Lancet commented: “We must face the fact that the most careful tests of a new drug’s effects on animals may tell us little of its effect in humans.” In 1964 James Gallagher, the medical director of Lederle Laboratories, admitted: “Animal studies are done for legal reasons and not for scientific reasons. The predictive value of such studies for man is often meaningless.”
The following web link has the 50 following medical disasters and links to more websites – http://www.vivisection.info/ssat/biotech.html
1. Benzene was not withdrawn from use as an industrial chemical despite clinical and epidemological evidence that exposure caused leukemia in humans, because manufacturer-supported tests failed to reproduce leukemia in mice.

2. Smoking was thought to be non-carcinogenic because smoking-related cancer is difficult to reproduce in lab animals. Consequently many continued to smoke and to die from cancer.

3. Animal experiments on rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, monkeys, and baboons revealed no link between glass fibers and cancer. Not until 1991, due to human studies, did OSHA label it carcinogenic.

4. Though arsenic was a known human carcinogen for decades, scientists still found little evidence in animals to support the conclusion as late as 1977.[6] This was the accepted view until it was eventually possible to produce in animals.

5. Many humans continued to be exposed to asbestos and die because scientists could not reproduce the cancer in laboratory animals.

6. Pacemakers and heart valves were delayed in development because of physiological differences between animals on which they were designed and humans for whom they were intended.

7. Animal models of heart disease failed to show that a high cholesterol/high fat diet increases the risk of coronary artery disease. Instead of changing their eating habits to prevent the disease, people continued their lifestyles with a false sense of security.

8. Patients received medications that were harmful and/or ineffective due to animal models of stroke.

9. Animal studies predicted that beta-blockers would not lower blood pressure. This withheld their development. Even animal experimenters admitted the failure of animal models of hypertension in this regard, but in the meantime, there were thousands more stroke victims.

10. Surgeons thought they had perfected radial keratotomy, surgery performed to enable better vision without glasses, on rabbits, but the procedure blinded the first human patients (The rabbit cornea is able to regenerate on the underside, whereas the human cornea can only regenerate on the surface). Surgery is now performed only on the surface.
11. Combined heart lung transplants were supposedly ‘perfected’ on animals, but the first 3 human patients all died within 23 days. Of the 28 patients operated on between 1981 and 1985, 8 died peri-operatively, and 10 developed obliterative bronchiolitis, a lung complication that the dogs on whom experiments had been conducted did not develop. Of those 10 humans who developed obliterative bronchiolitis, 4 died and 3 never breathed again without the aid of a respirator. Obliterative bronchiolitis turned out to be the most important risk of the operation.

12. Cyclosporin A inhibits organ rejection, and its development was a watershed in the success of transplant operations. Had human evidence not overwhelmed unpromising evidence from animals, it would never have been released.

13. Animal experiments failed to predict the kidney toxicity of the general anesthetic methoxyflurane. Many people lost all kidney function.

14. Animal experiments delayed the use of muscle relaxants during general anesthesia.

15. Research on animals failed to reveal bacteria as a cause of ulcers and delayed treating ulcers with antibiotics.

16. More than half of the 198 new medications released between 1976 and 1985 were either withdrawn or relabeled secondary to severe unpredicted side effects.[16] These side effects included complications such as lethal dysrhythmias, heart attacks, kidney failure, seizures, respiratory arrest, liver failure, and stroke, among others.

17. Flosint, an arthritis medication, was tested on rats, monkeys and dogs; all tolerated the medication well. However, in humans it caused deaths.

18. Zelmid, an antidepressant, was tested on rats and dogs without incident, but it caused severe neurological problems in humans.

19. Nomifensine, another antidepressant, was linked to kidney and liver failure, anemia, and death in humans. And yet animal testing had indicated that it could be used without side-effects occurring.

20. Amrinone, a medication used for heart failure, was tested on numerous animals and was released without any trepidation. But humans developed thrombocytopenia, a lack of the type of blood cells that are needed for clotting.

21. Fialuridine, an antiviral medication, caused liver damage in 7 out of 15 people. 5 eventually died and 2 more needed liver transplants. And yet it had worked well in woodchucks.

22. Clioquinol, an antidiarrheal, passed tests in rats, cats, dogs and rabbits. But it had to be withdrawn all over the world in 1982 after it was found to cause blindness and paralysis in humans.**

23. Eraldin, a medication for heart disease, caused deaths and blindness in humans despite the fact that no untoward effects could be shown in animals. When introduced, scientists said it noted for the thoroughness of the toxicity studies on animals. Afterwards, scientists were unable to reproduce these results in animals.

24. Opren, an arthritis medication, killed 61 people. Over 3500 cases of severe reactions have been documented. Opren had been tested on monkeys and other animals without problems.

25. Zomax, another arthritis drug, was responsible for the death of 14 people and causing suffering to many more.

26. The dose of isoproterenol, a medication used to treat asthma, was calculated in animals. Unfortunately, it was much too toxic for humans. 3500 asthmatics died in Great Britain alone due to overdose. It is still difficult to reproduce these results in animals.

27. Methysergide, a medication used to treat headaches, led to retroperitoneal fibrosis, or severe scarring of the heart, kidneys, and blood vessels in the abdomen. Scientists have been unable to reproduce this in animals.

28. Suprofen, an arthritis drug, was withdrawn from the market when patients suffered kidney toxicity. Prior to its release researchers had this to say about the animal tests: ‘…excellent safety profile. No…cardiac, renal, or CNS [central nervous system] effects in any species’.

29. Surgam, another arthritis drug, was designed to have a stomach protection factor that would prevent stomach ulcers, a common side effect of many arthritis drugs. Although promising in lab animal tests, ulcers occurred in human trials.

30. Selacryn, a diuretic, was thoroughly tested on animals, but it was withdrawn in 1979 after 24 people died from drug induced liver failure.

31. Perhexiline, a heart medication, was withdrawn when it produced liver failure which had not been predicted by animal testing. Even when the particular type of liver failure was known, it could not be induced in animals. Domperidone, designed as a treatment for nausea and vomiting, made human hearts beat irregularly and had to be withdrawn. Scientists were unable to reproduce this in dogs even with 70 times the normal dose.

33. Mitoxantrone, a treatment for cancer produced heart failure in humans. It was extensively tested on dogs, which did not manifest this effect.

34. Carbenoxalone was supposed to prevent formation of gastric ulcers but caused people to retain water to the point of heart failure. After vivisectors knew what it did to humans they tested it on rats, mice, monkeys, rabbits, but could not reproducing this effect.

35. Clindamycin, an antibiotic, causes a bowel condition called pseudomenbraneous colitis. And yet it was tested in rats and dogs every day for a year; moreover, they were able to tolerate doses ten times greater than humans are able to.

36. Animal experiments did not support the efficacy of valium-type drugs during development or subsequently

37. The pharmaceutical companies Pharmacia and Upjohn discontinued clinical tests of its Linomide (roquinimex) tablets for the treatment of multiple sclerosis after several patients suffered heart attacks. Of 1,200 patients, 8 suffered heart attacks as a result of taking the medication. Animal experiments had not predicted this.

38. Cylert (pemoline), a medication used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, caused liver failure in 13 children. Eleven either died or required a liver transplant.

39. Eldepryl (selegiline), a medication used to treat Parkinson’s disease, was found to induce very high blood pressure. This side effect has not been seen in animals.

40. The diet drug combination of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine was linked to heart valve abnormalities and withdrawn although animal studies had never revealed heart abnormalities.

41. The diabetes medication troglitazone, better known as Rezulin, was tested on animals without significant problems, but caused liver damage in humans. The manufacturer admitted that at least one patient had died and another had to undergo a liver transplant as a result.

42. The plant digitalis has been used for centuries to treat heart disorders. However, clinical trials of the digitalis-derived drug were delayed because it caused high blood pressure in animals. Fortunately, human evidence overrode and as a result, digoxin, an analogue of digitalis, has saved countless lives. Many more people could have survived had the animal testing been ignored and digitalis been released earlier.

43. FK 506, now called Tacrolimus, is an anti-rejection agent that was almost abandoned before proceeding to clinical trials due to severe toxicity in animals. Animal studies suggested that the combination of FK 506 with cyclosporin might prove more useful. In fact, just the opposite proved true in humans.

44. Animal experiments suggested that corticosteroids would help septic shock, a severe bacterial infection of the blood. However, humans reacted differently. This treatment increased the death rate in cases of septic shock.

45. Despite the ineffectiveness of penicillin in rabbits, Alexander Fleming used the antibiotic on a very sick patient since he had nothing else to try. Fortunately, Fleming’s initial tests were not on guinea pigs or hamsters because it kills them. Howard Florey, the Nobel Prize winner credited with co-discovering and manufacturing penicillin, stated: ‘How fortunate we didn’t have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably never been granted a license, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realized’.

46. Fluoride, a cavity preventative, was initially withheld because it caused cancer in rats.

47. The notoriously dangerous drugs thalidomide and DES were tested in animals and released for human usage. Tens of thousands suffered and/or died as a result.

48. Animal experiments misinformed researchers about how rapidly HIV replicates. Based on this false information, patients did not receive prompt therapies and their lives were shortened.

49. Animal-based research delayed the development of the polio vaccine, according to Dr. Albert Sabin, its inventor. The first rabies and polio vaccines worked well on animals but crippled or killed the people who tried them.

50. Researchers who work with animals have succumbed to illness and death due to exposure to diseases that while harmless to the animal host (such as Hepatitis B) are potentially or actually deadly for humans.

** Clioquinol is another example of a drug that was safety tested in animals and had a severely negative impact on humans. This drug, manufactured in Japan in the 1970s, was marketed as providing safe relief from diarrhea. Not only did Clioquinol not work in humans, it actually caused diarrhea. As a result of Clioquinol being administered to the public, some 30,000 cases of blindness and/or paralysis and thousands of deaths occurred. http://whitecoatwelfare.org/aat-text.shtml

Strychnine, one of the deadliest poisons to humans, is harmless to monkeys, chickens, and guinea pigs.
A dose of belladonna that would kill a person is harmless to rabbits and goats.
Sheep can consume enormous quantities of arsenic, which is fatal to humans in small amounts.
What we consider poisonous mushrooms (Amanita Phalloides) are commonly eaten by rabbits.
Hemlock is a deadly poison for humans, but is consumed without ill effect by mice, sheep, goats and horses.
PCP, or “angel dust”, which drives humans into a frenzy, is used as a sedative for horses.
streptomycin was tested on dogs, guinea pigs, and pigs and deemed “safe” for people. But infants who were given the drug suffered brain damage, went deaf or blind, or died

Flenac (Fenclofenac)
This NSAID ( non-steroidal anti-inflammatory) , despite passing animal toxicity tests in 10 animal species (mice, rats, guinea pigs, ferrets, rabbits, cats, dogs, pigs, horses, and monkeys), produced severe liver toxicity in humans.
Baycol (Cerivastatin)
Baycol was a popular drug approved in 1997 for the treatment of dyslipidemia (abnormal cholesterol levels), but it was withdrawn after substantial risk for severe or fatal rhabdomyolysis (muscle wasting) was revealed in patients. Muscle wasting was not seen in pre-clinical animal tests, including rats, mice, minipigs, dogs, or monkeys; only at very high doses were indications of effects on muscle tissue seen. The authors concluded that cerivastatin was well tolerated in all species. Post-withdrawal tests using rat and human muscle cells in vitro revealed that rat cells are 200 times more resistant to the drug’s effects. Eventually more than 100 deaths were linked to cerivastatin.
Furosemide (Lasix) is one of our most important diuretics, used to reduce fluid retention during heart failure and other diseases. Though experiments in mice show extensive liver damage, decades of clinical use have proven its safety for humans.
One of our most relied-upon pain relievers, Aspirin (Acetylsalicylic acid), causes teratogenic malformations in mice, rats, dogs, cats, rabbits, and monkeys.

Paracetamol is toxic to cats,

Arsenic is poisonous to people,but far less to sheep,

bleach is a mild irritant to rabbits skin but can be a severe irritant to humans,

onions and chocolate are toxic to dogs and cats and grapes and raisons can cuase kidney damage in dogs,

Benzene causes cancer in people but not in rats and mice,

Morphine, which calms people , caused marked excitement in cats,

Asprin causes birth defects in most animal experiments on in laboratories including rats,mice,monkeys,dogs,cats and guinea pigs, but not when used by people.

Chimpanzees are essentially immune to HIV,malaria and hepatitis.

Vioxx- a pain killer that was prescribed to arthritis sufferers, when tested on animals indicated that the drug was safe and even beneficial to the heart, but when it went onto
the market it caused an estimated 140’000 heart attacks and strokes in America alone ,a lot of these people died as a result.

Isoprenaline doses (for asthma) passed the animal testing stage yet proved to high for humans,killing 1000s of people as a result, also Carbenoxalone (for gastric ulcers) casued people to retian water to the point of heart failure. Both these failed drugs were tested on monkeys to see if they could reproduce the advers effects that had shown up in humans,but could not.

The chimpanzee, our closest known living relative is essentially immune to AIDS, hepatitis B and common malaria-diseases which kill millions of people throughout the world every year. Not surprisingly , therefore the 1st 5year trial of an HIV vaccine ‘Aidsvax’ based succesful on chimps was pronounced a failure when it was found that 8000 high risk volunteers in hte human trial were not protected from HIV infections by the vaccine.
“What good does it do you to test something in a monkey? You’ll find 5 or 6 years from now that it works in monkeys and then you test it in humans and you realise that humans behave totally differenlty from monkeys,so you have wasted 5years” says Dr Mark Feinberg, leading AIDS researcher.

In 1993 Boot’s heart drug Manoplax was withdrawn less than a year after its launch, following large scale clinical trials which suggested a link to increased rates of death and hospital admissions in patients. Manoplax had been extensively animal tested in studies using dogs,cats and other animals. Despite this it was only following clinical trials with human patients that the danger of this drug became apparent.

Opren was seen as a new wonder drug with the unique potential to treat arthritis & prevent the condition deteriorating. Indeed it did, but only in lab rats. It was withdrawn from sale in Britain after reports of 62deaths, and 3,500 serious side effects, in the UK alone, including damage to skin, eyes, circulation, liver, and kidneys.
CLIOQUINOL (also known as Entero-Vioform)
Given as an anti-diarrhoeal drug. Widely known to have caused 30,000 cases of blindness and/or paralysis in Japan alone and thousands of deaths worldwide. It caused a new serious disease called SMON

Long term studies with rhesus monkeys had failed to provide any evidence that the drug could possibly cause liver damage, the main cuase of death in human patients. Other animal studies failed to show that Opren might cause photosensitive skin reactions suffered by many of the human victims of this drug.
According to a report in the British Medical Journal , a staggering 5% of all hospital admissions are due to adverse drug reactions (ADRs), 2% of patients admitted with ADRs die. This translates into an overall mortality rate of about 18’000 people a year in the UK, more than treble the number killed in road traffic accidents and the 4th leading cause of preventable deaths in the UK. In finacial terms, the cost of ADRs to the NHS is estimated at around £500million annually, this is the average.
Anoter figure said by a concerned NHS executive has estimated that the figure could be nearer to 70’000 deaths and cases of serious disability in the UK a year.
Dr Richard Klausner, former director of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), lamented: ‘The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn’t work in humans.’ The NCI also believes we have lost cures for cancer because they were ineffective in mice.
Cigarette smoke, asbestos, arsenic, benzene, alcohol and glass fibres are all safe to ingest, according to animal studies.
Of 22 drugs shown to have been therapeutic in spinal cord injury in animals, not one is effective in humans.
Of 20 compounds known not to cause cancer in humans, 19 do cause cancer in rodents.

Multiple Sclerosis ,in February2004 a report published in the New Scientist stated that scientists admited animal experiments delayed medical progress with research into MS, Researchers studying human brain tissue from MS sufferers discovered that animal experiments had led to false theories about MS.
Cancer is another example, in March 2004 a survey amongst medical experts produced some analysis to explain why we’re loosing the ‘war on cancer’. Pharmaceutical research has concentrated heavily on experiments on mice. And even though there are similarities in a mouses DNA to ours in some respects , there are huge biological differences. Many treatments that work on mice don’t work in humans. Richard Sullivan head of clinical programmes at Cancer Research Uk recently said “more and more we tak about man as the model. Animals are a very dirty guide”. There are more than 200different types of cancer in humans , many of which have been ‘replicated’ in animals mostly by exposing them to carcinogenic chemicals,radiation,cancer-causing viruses,by injection them directly with tumour cells,or by inserting genetic material associated with the growth of cancers. Thomas E. Wagner, senior scientist at Ohio Univeristys Edison Biotechnology institute, remarked: “We’ve cured mice of all sorts of tumours.But that isn’t medical research”. And accoroding to Dr Albert Ssabin, developer of the polio vaccine, “Given cancer to lab animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it…lab cancers have nothing to do with natural human cancers”.
In fact, the use of animals in the search for cancer drugs has been a costly failure. In the USA, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has screened some 500’000 chemicals in animals with a reported success rate of 0.0001%. In 1998,Dr Richard Klausner, director of the NCI admitted: “The NCI believes we have lost cures for cancer becuase they were ineffective in mice”
Hundreds of drugs to treat strokes (eg, Cerestat, MaxiPost, Zendra, Lotrafiban, gavestinel, nimodipine, clomethiazole) have been found
safe and effective in animal studies and then injured or
killed patients in clinical trials
The track record of primate research is abysmal: 80 AIDS vaccines have failed in human trials following success in primates; likewise 150 stroke treatments. Research on primates, including great apes, has failed to produce treatments for any of our leading killers, including heart disease, cancer and malaria. The polio vaccine was “long delayed by misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys” according to its inventor, Dr Albert Sabin.
Parkinsons disease is another example. One experiment , which is still repeated time after time, involved 2 macaque monkeys,used to mimic the disease in humans. The experiment involves injecting a chemical which effects nerve transmission directly into their brain. They were also injected intravenously with a 2nd chemical called MPTP, which produces tremors. Researchers noted,from previous experiments performed by other scientists,that greater brain damage results in more severe behavioural symptoms. Depending on the dose of MPTP,the monkeys experienced varying degrees of incapacity,tremors,rigidity and loss of voluntary body movements. Parkinsons in humans is caused by poorly understood death of dopamine producing cells in the brain.Not MPTP. Also Parkinsons does not naturally occur in monkeys . After yet more drugs and experiments were given to the monkeys they were both killed. The main obvious fundamental difference between Parkinsons disease in humans and “monkey models” is that whilst humans get progressively worse, monkeys can gradually recover from the condition.

With diabetes , there was yet another human fatal drug resulting from animal based studies. Rezulin, which was luanched onto the market in 1997 after its success in treating “diabetic” animals (the animals were again given drugs and treatments to mimic diabetes) . The drug was withdrawn 3years later when it was found to cause liver failure and had killed several hundred people.
Other experiments for example when dogs and cats are used to test the effects of Cyclosporin (an anti-reaction drug) on the kidney. The results showed that whilst the drug did cause liver,kidney and nerve damage in human patients, it did not show these effects in the cats and dogs used to test and check teh drug was safe to be used on humans!
Carcinogenicity testing-these tests to ascertain if chemicals might cause cancer are notoriously poor at predicting human outcomes. 1study found 19 of 20 substances judged to be safe in humans caused cancer in rodents while another found that rodent tests identified only 37% of 19 known human carcinogens. A recent analysis showed that when 121 chemicals were tested twice,different results were obtained in two tests nearly half the time.
Amylnitrate dangerously raises the internal pressure of the eyes of dogs, but it lowers the pressure within the human eye
The foxglove (digitalis) was formerly considered to be dangerous for the heart because, when tested on dogs, It raised their blood pressure. For this reason the use of the medicament, which is of undisputed value for the human heart, was delayed for many years.
Novalgin is an anaesthetic for humans, but in cats it causes excitement and salivation, symptoms similar to those occurring in animals suffering from rabies.
There are 11,600 chemicals which have anti-cancer properties in mice, yet not one of these chemicals has been shown to have any anti-cancer properties in humans
Blood transfusion was delayed 200 years by misleading animal experiments. Corneal transplants were delayed 90 years. We may never have had penicillin at all had it been tested on guinea pigs — it kills them.

ERALDIN
A heart drug given to patients for four years before side effects were identified, including blindness, stomach problems, pains in joints and growths.
Flosint — Caused 7 deaths.

Osmosin — 650 people had side-effects. 20 died.

Chloramphenicol — Caused fatal blood disorders.

Conversely, many drugs which are beneficial to humans are dangerous or even fatal to animals:

Digitalis — A heart drug for humans but causes high blood pressure in dogs.

Chlorophorm — Anaesthetic in humans but poisonous to dogs.

32 drugs used to treat cancer in humans, not one of them has anti-cancer effects in mice.
One hundred milligrams of scopolamine leave dogs and cats unaffected, but five milligrams are sufficient to kill a human being
Propulsid (Cisapride)
Propulsid was approved by the FDA in 1993 and was used primarily to treat gastric reflux in children. Heart rhythm disturbances had appeared in clinical trials, but not in animal studies. By 1995, heart rhythm deaths in children became evident through adverse events reports. The drug remained on the market with five label changes, until being withdrawn in 2000 after causing over 300 deaths
Tamoxifen, an effective contraceptive for rats, it actually increased women’s fertility. Later clinical trials demonstrated its utility in the treatment of breast cancer, despite the fact it caused liver cancer among rats. It eventually proved to be carcinogenic for humans over the long term and was withdrawn from the market.
The above examples are just a tiny tiny minority of showing how animal experiments are a danger to human health.It does not explain about how animals are now being genetically modified or include the number been “made”. Nor does it include the problems faced by soldiers that have come back from war suffering from illnesses from drugs and chemicals tested on animals,mainly pigs and goats, and either failed on the animals but were used anyway or passed the safety tests and showed very different results in the soldiers.
UNSAFE FOR HUMANS
The following, taken from Dr Ray and Jean Greek’s book, are just some examples of pharmaceutical drugs which have been deemed safe for human use after extensive animal testing, but which were later found to cause serious side effects.
•Amrinone: Use of this drug for treating heart failure led to 20 per cent of patients developing thrombocytopenia (a lack of blood cells needed for clotting), despite a comprehensive program of animal studies in mice, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, dogs and rhesus monkeys. Some of these patients died.
•Birth control pills: These are known to cause life-threatening blood clots in some women, yet scientists have still not been able to reproduce this finding in animals. In fact, dog testing predicted that the pill would decrease the likelihood of clotting.
•Chloramphenicol: This antibiotic caused life-threatening anaemia in humans. Chloramphenicol is an example of a drug whose effects vary from species to species: dogs do well with it, cats die from it, cows tolerate it but horses do not. It is so toxic to susceptible humans that its use has been outlawed in animals used for food. The tiny amount consumed from ingesting a hamburger made from a treated cow will cause death in such a person unless they receive a bone marrow transplant.

•Diethylstilbestrol: This synthetic oestrogen was designed to prevent miscarriage, but it did just the opposite by increasing the rate of spontaneous abortions, premature births and neo-natal deaths. No human trials were done; all the safety data were collected from animals.
•Eraldin: This heart drug was withdrawn in 1975 after causing serious side effects in an estimated 7,000 victims, 23 of whom died. It had been tested for six years in mice, rats, dogs and monkeys and when introduced on the market was “particularly notable for the thoroughness with which its toxicity was studied in animals, to the satisfaction of the authorities”. Even long after the drug was withdrawn, scientists failed to reproduce these results in animals.
•Floxin: This antibiotic progressed through animal testing, only to cause seizures and psychosis when used by humans.
•Isuprel: A medication used to treat asthma, it proved devastatingly toxic to humans in the amounts recommended based on animal studies. In Great Britain alone, 3,500 asthmatics died from using the medication.
•Manoplax: This heart drug, which had been tested on rats, mice, rabbits, cats and guinea-pigs, was withdrawn worldwide in 1993 after analysis of patients showed that those taking it were at increased risk of hospitalisation and/or death.
•Methysergide: This treatment for migraine led to severe scarring of the heart, kidneys and blood vessels in the abdomen, although scientists have been unable to reproduce these effects in animals.
•Opren: This treatment for rheumatism and arthritis killed 61 people and caused 3,500 adverse reactions. Withdrawn in 1982, the drug had been tested on monkeys and other animals for nine years with no adverse side effects.
•Phenylpropanolamine (PPA): This drug, found in many common cold and flu remedies, was banned by the FDA in the US after it was linked to causing between 200 and 500 strokes in young women a year.
•Primacor: This medication, given when the heart is not pumping enough blood, worked well in rats but increased deaths in humans by 30 per cent.
•Ritodrine: This drug, prescribed to avert premature labour, induced pulmonary oedema (fluid in the lungs, causing breathing difficulties and possibly death).
•Suprofen: This arthritis drug was withdrawn from the market when patients suffered kidney toxicity. Prior to its release, researchers said this about the animal tests: “…excellent safety profile. No.cardiac, renal [kidney] or central nervous system [side effects] in any species.”
•Tamoxifen: This drug, used to treat and prevent breast cancer in women, caused liver tumours in rats but not in mice or hamsters. The drug has been shown to be harmless to the developing foetus of rabbits and monkeys, but to cause bone abnormalities in rat foetuses. One of the side effects is nausea and vomiting, but this was not predicted in animal studies, even though high doses were tested in dogs — the species considered most predictive of vomiting in humans. The drug has also been implicated in uterine cancer, blood clots, memory loss, absence of periods, and eye damage such as cataracts.
•Zomax: This arthritis drug killed 14 people and caused many more to suffer.
Even the Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science admits that ‘uncritical reliance on the results of animal tests can be dangerously misleading and has cost the health and lives of tens of thousands of humans’
How many drugs have been made but becuase they didn’t work on animals were not given to people,yet could have save/improved their lives.
Over one
hundred years of animal experimentation have failed to provide any major breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer and heart disease — two of our biggest killers, though both these diseases remain largely preventable.

The pharmacutical industry like any company are out to make money , if they wanted to give us a cure for diesease such as arthritis they probably would but they make more money from just giving pain killers so that people have to keep going back for more and more … therefore keep funding the industry. They also make the government and give the government £billions each year.

The attempt to build a new lab at Ox ford university which was at 1st going to cost in teh region of £18million to the university, has now been passed to the governmetn to use tax payers money to pay for it instead, the current cost stands in the region of £110million. All this for just ONE lab??? Yet look at the current state of Britains NHS and how that money could be used or given to organisations stated below to find real cures.
There are so many new, far more up to date modern ways of finding cures for human deiseases, yet because the government has yet to make money from them becuase they wont assist them in the 1st place and becuase the pharmaceutical industry bribe the government with so much more money, animal testing will continue and we will all find ourselves at dead ends as far as finding cures are.
So the organsiations that do exist such as http://www.drhadwentrust.org.uk/ and http://www.humaneresearch.org.uk/researchers/current.html have to survive on public donations yet are the way forward in finding real cures for so many illnesses,desiease that disable and kill so many men women and children each year around the world.
All this happens becuase of money , money the pharmcueitcal industry and government makes from using the 19th century born idea of animal testing, which not only is totally and utterly barbaric in its treatment of animals but ,as the above examples prove , a very big danger to human health. These are all figures the govenrnment and pharmacuetical industry like to try and keep from us so that they can carry on making money. The pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable in the world and its interests are strongly protected by governments. Animal experiments appeal to drug and biotechnology companies because the data produced can be manipulated to suit their commercial interests. Animal experiments also provide a legal defence for pharmaceutical companies when people are injured or killed by Adverse Drug Reactions.
Crucially, the law encourages the use of animals in drug development-as a result of pressure from pro-vivisection lobby.
We are all at risk from the pharmaceutical industry and drug companies, they want to turn every mental and physical feeling we have into a medical condition for them to profit from by selling us their drugs after they tell us we have a medical condition that needs treating.
For example are there really more people depressed than 30 years ago? There are drugs these days to help you sleep,stay awake,encourage and prevent bowel movements, calm people down , motivate you, the list is endless and growing all the time as the industries come up with new conditions that make you believe you need to buy their drugs to cure.They have made women going through the “change of life” believe they are ill so need to take pills, which of course finacially benefits the compnies selling the drugs. Their aim is to make us all into their profit making reliant robots. This is at our own short and long term ,both finacial and physical, expense as the above examples have proven. Each time a new drug is made and distributed to the public , the companies profit from it regardless of the human and animal costs.
It’s your taxes been abused and your lives and your familes lives put in danger,for the profit of the government and pharmecuetical industry.

24th Arpil-WORLD DAY FOR LABORATORY ANIMALS. A day to remember the Billions,yes billions,of animals that die each year thorugh animal experiments and also the millio