Written by PETA
Last week, Discover Magazine published a blog reminding us about the 1982 animated movie The Secret of NIMH, which tells the story of a group of rats who acquired superpowers as a result of being tormented in experiments in a government laboratory. Thanks to their powers, the rats in the movie were able to escape the laboratory, but as Discover Magazine pointed out, animals in the real-life NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) aren't as lucky. Day after day, animals at NIMH are forced to endure taxpayer-funded experiments like the following:
Rats and mice can feel pain and suffer just as acutely as monkeys, dogs, and cats can, but they are excluded from the minimal protections of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA)—the only federal law governing the treatment of animals in laboratories. You can help the real rats of NIMH by urging your Congressional representatives to amend the AWA to include rats and mice.
Written by Lindsay Pollard-Post
This treatment is barbaric and horrible. All animals deserve better.
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Disgusting! How do these 'people' sleep at night?!!? I hope there is a hell for these torturers where all the animals they experimented on torture them for eternity!!!!
My congressional representatives in GA are psychopathic & probably wouldn't go for that (it being something that would 'grow government') but I'll urge them anyway.
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