Stop the SAHMRI testing on animals
- by: Emma Hedley
- recipient: Premier of SA, SA minister for health and ageing
For those of you who may not know, Right next to the new Rotal Adelaide hospital being built on North Terrace, they have built a massive "research facility". In this facility they will be breeding animals, testing on/torturing animals and killing animals.
You can gain nothing from giving an animal a disease, then trying to cure the disease you gave them.
1) Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever seen in animals. Over 98% never affect animals.
2) According to the former scientific executive of Huntingdon Life Sciences, animal tests and human results agree "5%-25% of the time."
3) 95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately discarded as useless or dangerous to humans.
4) At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in lab animals. They are allowed because it is admitted the animal tests are not relevant.
5) Vivisectors Procter & Gamble used an artificial musk despite it failing the animal tests, causing tumours in mice. They said results were "of little relevance for humans."
6) When asked if they agreed that animal experiments can be misleading 'because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans', 88% of doctors agreed.
7) Rats are 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer to humans. Flipping a coin would be 50% effective, and therefore more accurate.
8) Rodents are the animals almost always used in cancer research. They never get carcinomas, the human form of cancer, which
affects membranes (e.g. lung cancer). Their sarcomas affect bone and connecting tissue: the two are completely different.
9) Up to 90% of animal test results are discarded as they're inapplicable to man.
read the other reasons animal testing is stupid here :
More concerning than the blatant CRUELTY, will be the amount of diseases contained in this building.. and right next to a hospital?
To Hon Jay Weatherill and Hon Jack Snelling
As you are well aware, next to the new Royal Adelaide Hospital being built in town, a health and medical research institute is being build. One of their major focuses will be breeding animals to test on.
You can gain nothing from giving an animal a disease, besides trying to cure the disease you gave them.
Below are some facts about animal testing that you may or may not know:
•Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever seen in animals. Over 98% never affect animals.
•According to the former scientific executive of Huntingdon Life Sciences, animal tests and human results agree "5%-25% of the time."
•95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately discarded as useless or dangerous to humans.
•At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in lab animals. They are allowed because it is admitted the animal tests are not relevant.
•Vivisectors Procter & Gamble used an artificial musk despite it failing the animal tests, causing tumours in mice. They said results were "of little relevance for humans."
•When asked if they agreed that animal experiments can be misleading "because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans', 88% of doctors agreed.
•Rats are 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer to humans. Flipping a coin would be 50% effective, and therefore more accurate.
•Rodents are the animals almost always used in cancer research. They never get carcinomas, the human form of cancer, which affects membranes (e.g. lung cancer). Their sarcomas affect bone and connecting tissue: the two are completely different.
•Up to 90% of animal test results are discarded as they're inapplicable to man.
•According to the former scientific executive of Huntingdon Life Sciences, animal tests and human results agree "5%-25% of the time."
•95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately discarded as useless or dangerous to humans.
•At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in lab animals. They are allowed because it is admitted the animal tests are not relevant.
•Vivisectors Procter & Gamble used an artificial musk despite it failing the animal tests, causing tumours in mice. They said results were "of little relevance for humans."
•When asked if they agreed that animal experiments can be misleading "because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans', 88% of doctors agreed.
•Rats are 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer to humans. Flipping a coin would be 50% effective, and therefore more accurate.
•Rodents are the animals almost always used in cancer research. They never get carcinomas, the human form of cancer, which affects membranes (e.g. lung cancer). Their sarcomas affect bone and connecting tissue: the two are completely different.
•Up to 90% of animal test results are discarded as they're inapplicable to man.
read the other reasons animal testing is not accurate here :
http://www.veganlondon.co.uk/factsheets/scientific_fraud.pdf
Just as concerning as the blatant CRUELTY, will be the amount of diseases contained in this building, right next to a hospital! How can that possibly be hygenic or safE?
I urge you to do everything in your power to stop the nonsense that is animal testing for medical research, All it does is harm innocent beings and hold science back when we could be working on real cures and promoting prevention of certain illnesses.
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