Numerous studies have shown that animal experimentation wastes resources and lives, as more than 90% of highly promising results from testing on animals fail to lead to treatments for humans.
TASGOLA BRUNER: ‘Every year, tens of millions of animals are used in cruel and deadly taxpayer-funded experiments inside university laboratories across the country. Now, PETA — recognizing that all experimentation on animals is cruel and unethical — has created “Failed Tests,” an interactive feature that ranks colleges as “bad,” “worse,” or “worst” for animals.
The grades are based on the number of animals covered by the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) — including pigs, dogs, cats, rabbits, and monkeys — who are held and used in experiments at the school, the amount of government funding received from the National Institutes of Health, and the number and severity of a school’s AWA violations…
Numerous published studies have shown that animal experimentation wastes resources and lives, as more than 90% of highly promising results from basic science research—much of it involving animal experimentation—fail to lead to treatments for humans. And 95% of new medications that are found to be effective in animals fail in human clinical trials…
PETA opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview that fosters violence toward other animals… PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is pulling back the curtain on this widespread collegiate cruelty and asking caring young people to speak out against the abuse of sensitive, sentient beings in their midst”.’ SOURCE…
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