The Day of the Bullies
Published by cyrano2 at 8:18 am under American Capitalism,
Animal Cruelty, Animal Liberation, Cor****atism, Cruel Idiots,
Empathy Deficient, Exploitation
By David Irving
6/29/08
Conservatively speaking, approximately 100 million vertebrates in the
world are experimented upon annually by the animal research industry
of which approximately 22 million animals belong to the United States.
Most of the animals are killed after research. While the animal research
industry has managed successfully to brain wash the public into
thinking animal research consists primarily of medical research, that
is not the case. A large ****tion of animal research takes place in the
cosmetics industry, the military, the EPA, the FDA, private research
laboratories for industrial use, animal food companies, and others.
As an example, hundreds of thousands of military experiments have
been conducted on animals in the greatest secrecy at a cost to taxpayers
of over 100 million dollars annually. The military shoots, blasts, burns,
scalds, and poisons animals. It subjects them to radiation, nerve gas,
mustard gas, breaks their bones, and tortures them in every conceivable
manner like attaching cartons of mosquitoes to restrained monkeys and
rabbits so that the mosquitoes will feed on them in mosquito virus tests.
Animals don't make war, but they are made to suffer the consequences
of the brutal wars human beings wage.
The March of Dimes is famous for experiments in which their
researchers sewed the eyelids of kittens shut for a year in visual
development tests before killing them. The visual development they
claimed to study occurs in cats after birth while it occurs in humans
before birth so that the tests were meaningless. The March of Dimes has
also conducted research funded by tobacco companies to show that
nicotine had beneficial effects. Research at the March of Dimes has also
included implanting electric pumps into the backs of pregnant rats to
inject them with nicotine and cocaine even though the hazards of
smoking and cocaine to human babies is well known. Other addiction
testing has been done by university researchers like Ron Woods who
locked baboons in refrigerators filled with cocaine smoke in drug
addition studies. The subject of how unjust it is, not to mention
immoral and decadent, to experiment upon animals to try to solve the
addiction problems human beings have created for themselves is
never considered. That includes Columbia University where
researchers have repeatedly operated on baboons and their babies in
utero to measure the flow of nicotine through the umbilical chord.
The IAMS pet food company also engages in animal research projects.
Their research has included confining dogs and cats in small, barren
cages for as long as six years in which the dogs were debarked by
cutting their vocal chords and then forced to endure painful surgery in
which their gums were repeatedly cut and sutured to implant gingivitis,
though gingivitis could have been studied on dogs that had developed
the condition normally.
The cosmetics industry is another giant in the world of animal research.
Procter and Gamble, for example, tests cosmetics for irritancy by
locking rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, ferrets and other animals into
restraining devices and then applying burning chemicals to their eyes
and shaved ****tions of their skin. This is done without sedation or
pain killers and causes excruciating pain. Some of the animals strain
so forcefully against their restraints in these tests that they actually
break their backs trying to escape. Those that survive are put through
additional tests until they are finally killed. When chemicals are dripped
into the eyes of these animals, it is called the Draize Test, and many in
the medical community agree it is useless and unnecessary. More than
600 other companies produce the same kind of products that Proctor
and Gamble makes without resorting to animal testing. Donated
corneas to which chemicals may be applied and human skin cultures
for irritancy testing are also available as alternatives to these animal
testing procedures and are less expensive. However, Procter and
Gamble refuses to abandon this senseless research because it does
not want to admit it is wrong. The FDA continues to approve it. All
so that we can have better kitchen products, better make-up, mascara,
and all those other necessities Procter and Gamble makes.
None of this research discussed we've been discussing takes curiosity
research into account, for example, subjecting restrained primates to a
continuous three hour-long studio-generated sound ten decibels louder
than a shotgun blast, a research project conducted at New York
University.
The above research does not take into account the abuse of animals
by supposedly legitimate medical researchers that continuously comes
to light year after year after year as, for example, at Huntingdon
Laboratories in England where researchers were photographed hitting
puppies, shouting at them, simulating *** acts with them, and
dissecting what appeared to be a live monkey. As re****ted by a
whistleblower at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who
was able to back most of her charges with 59 videotapes in tests for
alcohol, dopamine, and nicotine, rodents were infected with oversized
tumors so large the animals could hardly carry them around and some
of the tumors ulcerated and burst; a researcher broke the necks of
rats to get rid of those for which she had no need; rodents have been
packed together under such crowded conditions that they suffocated
to death and resorted to cannibalism; mice with untended teeth grew
so long that they could not eat and some of them starved to death; a
researcher jokingly held up a tiny white mouse and said, "Say Bye,
bye," and then beheaded her with a pair of scissors; rats screamed
when being beheaded with scissors without anesthesia or numbing
agents; and researchers have amputated the toes of rodents for
identification purposes.
The animal industry is a huge, parasitic gravy train dependent upon
mass brain wa****ng of the public through continuous public relations
efforts and 100 million innocent creatures subjected to enslavement
and torture by human beings. The abuse and exploitation of animals
in the world today is representative of a primitive reliance on the
worst instincts of human beings.
"I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them
fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be
violated any more than those of humans. - Jimmy Stewart
"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong,
something the best people have always done. - Harriet Beecher
Stowe
".when we removed the body (of his cagemate) to the operation
room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days.
The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again
to experiment with such sensitive creatures. - Dr. Christian Barnard
(Founder of Physicians for Responsible Medicine)
"I believe I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces
results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. To know
that the results are profitable to the race would not remove my
hostility to it. The pains which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals
is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient
justification of enmity without looking further. - Mark Twain
"Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge,
it does so at the expense of human character. - George Bernard Shaw
"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than the life of a
human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the
sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature,
the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
- Mahatma Gandhi
"It is our duty to share and maintain life. Reverence concerning all
life is the greatest commandment in its most elementary form. Or
expressed in negative terms: "Though shalt not kill." We take this
prohibition so lightly, thoughtlessly plucking a flower, thoughtlessly
stepping on a poor insect, thoughtlessly, in terrible blindness
because everything takes its revenge, disregarding the suffering and
lives of our fellow men, sacrificing them to trivial earthly goals.
Reverence for life comprises the whole ethic of love in its deepest
and highest sense. It is the source of constant renewal for the
individual and for mankind. - Albert Schweitzer
".the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In cor****al sufferance finds
a pang as great
As when a giant dies. - William Shakespeare
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This is what happens with the Draize test. I hope they're proud of
themselves. No wonder Schopenhaurer wrote what he wrote!
David Irving is a Phi Beta Kappa, Magna *** Laude graduate of
Columbia University, class of 1980, School of General Studies.
He subsequently obtained his Masters in Music Composition at
Columbia and founded the new music organization Phoenix in
New York City.
2 Responses to "The Day of the Bullies"
# Bill Cooganon 29 Jun 2008 at 10:33 am
Thank you for such a great article. I have been an advocate of animal
rights for many years and sup****t all the wonderful organizations that
do the hard work in front of and behind the scenes, such as PETA,
Last Chance for Animals, The American Anti-Vivsection Society,
IFAW, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, HSUS,
Friends of Animals, WSAP, and so many other large and small groups.
Animal 'research' is big money and big business, so write to your
congressmen and senators and tell them it must end..and never
patronize any company or organization that directly or indirectly uses
animals for their profits.
# Gail Nelsonon 29 Jun 2008 at 10:52 am
I hope this article gets people's attention on this very im****tant issue.
I worked in an NIH lab as a student and was horrified by what I saw
there. I have been a wildlife rehabilitator and take in abused pets. I
wonder often why some humans have no empathy for what they do
to these living breathing feeling creatures. Personally as we rebuild the
world that is now on its way out, we should absolutely never do this
to the animals again. Otherwise, living in harmony will never be, unless
all the monkeys, bunnies, dogs, cats, rats, and all other animals are
respected for their own life force and contribution to our ecology.
Imagine being totally helpless and having these things done to you.
Imagine being bred for food and kept in the horrible conditions our
cows, pigs and sheep are made to endure. Give generously to these
organizations, and if you can't afford it, then give time to help out.
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