{"id":754314,"date":"2018-08-22T08:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T12:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754314"},"modified":"2018-08-22T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T12:51:18","slug":"majority-of-americans-now-oppose-experiments-on-animals-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754314","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Americans Now Oppose Experiments on Animals, Survey Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Imagine how terrified animals must feel when their brains and guts are prodded or when they\u2019re force-fed substances or mutilated without painkillers.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ZACHARY TOLIVER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;For the first time ever, a majority of Americans oppose the use of animals in experiments, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Pew found that 52 percent of Americans now oppose all tests on animals\u2014two percentage points higher than what a similar Pew survey found in 2014 and nine points higher than the results of its 2009 survey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>It\u2019s no surprise that more people than ever are denouncing wasteful experiments on animals that fail to lead to human treatments over 90 percent of the time&#8230; Imagine how terrified animals must feel when their brains and guts are prodded or when they\u2019re force-fed substances or mutilated without painkillers. They spend their entire lives in tiny cages and other enclosures, deprived of natural relationships with friends and family&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Multiple eyewitness investigations conducted by PETA and other groups have revealed unchecked cruelty to animals in laboratories\u2014opening a window for the public onto this dark, secretive world, where animals are routinely burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/blog\/oppose-experiments-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zXUKxHGxD-E?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZACHARY TOLIVER: &#8216;For the first time ever, a majority of Americans oppose the use of animals in experiments, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Pew found that 52 percent of Americans now oppose all tests on animals\u2014two percentage points higher than what a similar Pew survey found in 2014 and nine points higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,24,25],"tags":[27,29,35],"class_list":["post-754314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-science","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754316,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754314\/revisions\/754316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}