For the dogs, cats, and rabbits inside Professional Laboratory and Research Services (PLRS), the cruel poisoning tests were only part of the abuse.
Dogs were so traumatized from living locked up for months—and sometimes years—without affection, enrichment, companionship, exercise, or even an occasional kind word, they circled and paced continuously.
Why do we always ascribe these documented atrocities to "this or that LAB/UNIVERSITY". Why do we not ascribe at least some responsibility to the scientists who run these cruel experiments? Do they not have the ultimate responsibility to ensure that all animal protection laws and best practices are observed at all times? In many cases, they clearly don't care and don't bother. These "professionals" make a handsome living off the pain and suffering of helpless, imprisoned animals. As long as the money train continues to run, these medical folks and scientists will continue to profit from it, at the expense of animals, not to mention at the expense, in many cases, of us taxpayers. They hire people to "care" for the poor animals at the lowest possible cost. Clearly, there is no formal training and no capable person oversees the level of "care" these animals receive. The animals are dispensable nothings...a meal ticket for those who use them so cruelly. While the caretakers are the ones often caught abusing the animals, it is the professionals who so mame these poor fur kids, subjecting them to incredible horrors and then turning them over to the abusive caretakers for yet more abuse and suffering. What a sick world we live in! Particularly when we realize that most of the so-called "data" derived from these cruel experiments, cannot be extrapolated to human beings, with any degree of accuracy. So, what's the point? What's the justification? In my humble opinion, there is no justification for such treatment of any living creature...not for food, not for pharmaceuticals, not for the cosmetic industry and not for any other industry. However, this being the USA, this pathetic testing is the LEGAL way big pharma and other big industries avoid lawsuits...through generally worthless testing on animals who have no voice in the matter. Lambast your congressmen/women on this topic till the cows comes home. LITERALLY! So much reform is needed it's unreal. Today is as good a place to start as any. Do whatever you can. Speak from your experiences, your heart, your emotions, your outrage or whatever else you can effectively speak from, on behalf of all the animals languishing in absolute misery and terror, with no voice of their own, except the lonesome voice of their pain, which falls only upon deaf ears.
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