World Week For Animals In Laboratories 2011 - Los Angeles. CA

Each year, twenty-three million animals are pointlessly hurt and killed in the name of research. Dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, pigs, and birds are just a few of the victims who have screws driven into their skulls, their spinal columns severed, their eyes sewn shut, and their bodies filled with toxic chemicals. Frequently, these procedures are done without anesthetic, and almost invariably without concern for the animal's pain and misery. Virtually every one of these animals suffers in lonely agony before it is finally killed.
The biological and cellular differences between species are often too great to extrapolate experimental results from test animals to humans. Medications, proven safe in animals, are frequently withdrawn after being found unsafe in people.
Regulation of animal research laboratories is minimal, at best. Federally operated labs are exempt from oversight. The USDA, the enforcement arm for Federal legislation, lacks the manpower to provide even cursory reviews of most labs. Even when their investigators find violations, labs often receive a simple reprimand.
World Week for Laboratory Animals is a global effort to bring awareness to the plight of animals in labs and promote alternatives to vivisection. The goal of our Los Angeles group is to educate the public about unnecessary animal research both in the University of California system and elsewhere, the gross waste of funds paid in support of dubious research, and to open dialogue between legitimate researchers and animal welfare groups in an effort to promote the humane treatment of all animals, reduce the number of animals used, and to eliminate and / or replace vivisection to the greatest extent possible.
The choice is not between rats and babies. The choice is between real science and counterfeit science.

[@repenney]

I'm so glad "Freedom" the beagle found a loving home with Kimberly!

[@riemertje]

goooooo beat those laboratories

[@watchensee]

Everyday millions of other creatures suffer for our welfare. It's time for us to fight and give them their welfare wether they be for food, clothing, or research all should have the right to humanity! :')