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Animal Product
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What is animal testing?
An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to
undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting
harm.

Animal experiments are not the same as taking your companion animal to the vet.
Animals used in laboratories are deliberately harmed, not for their own good, and are
usually killed at the end of the experiment.
 Animal experiments include:

● injecting or force feeding animals with potentially harmful substances

● exposing animals to radiation
● surgically removing animals’ organs or tissues to deliberately cause damage
● forcing animals to inhale toxic gases
● subjecting animals to frightening situations to create anxiety and depression.
 How does it work?
Each year, more than 100 million animals—including rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits,
hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories for
biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven
experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and
cosmetics testing. Research indicates
that between 115 and 127 million animals are used for
animal testing each year.

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Before their deaths, some are forced to inhale toxic fumes, others are immobilized in
restraint devices for hours, some have holes drilled into their skulls, and others have
their skin burned off or their spinal cords crushed. In addition to the torment of the
actual experiments, animals in laboratories are deprived of everything that is natural
and important to them—they are confined to barren cages, socially isolated, and
psychologically traumatized.

The thinking, feeling animals who are used in experiments are treated like nothing
more than disposable laboratory equipment.
 How does this affects the
environment?
Typically, facilities that engage in animal testing not only dispose of animals, but also
dispose of potentially dangerous chemicals, food waste, and a variety of supplies
used during the testing process. Additionally, animal testing also heavily impacts
water and air quality.
There are also large amounts of air pollution, water pollution and soil contamination.
The air pollution is caused from the smoke created by the burning of fossil fuel to
power the animal research facilities, which releases Sulphur dioxide into the air
making it toxic.
The amount of energy that is used in animal research facilities is up to ten times
the amount of energy used in offices per square meter.
The release of Sulphur dioxide and hazardous gases into the air causes global
warming and acid rain; which in turn have increased temperatures, erratic rains
and droughts worldwide; making it tough for the animals to survive. We breathe
in every polluted particle from the air; result is increase in asthma and cancer in
the lungs.
The processes in the facilities involve many toxic substances including irritants,
corrosive substances, asphyxiates, neurotoxins, reproductive and developmental
toxins, and carcinogens. These are all causing great strain on the surrounding
environment which is already in danger from all of the other pollution that is caused.
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 Brands That don’t do animal
That do animal testing testing
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 Animals
That are used That aren’t used
Rabbits

Rats

Guinea pigs
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 Solutions
Use human tissue
Don´t do animal discarded from
product testing plastic surgeries
instead
Buy products that
are vegan in origin.
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 Resources
What is animal testing? | Cruelty Free International
https://fedupthemovement.wixsite.com/fedupthemoveme
nt/single-post/2016/08/01/Environmental-Impacts-of-Ani https://super.abril.com.br/mundo-estranho/como-sao-feit
mal-Testing#:~:text=As%20well%20as%20all%20of%20the os-os-testes-de-laboratorio-em-animais/
%20animal%20welfare,of%20energy%20used%20in%20offi Introduction to How Animal Testing Works |
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HowStuffWorks
https://jaishroff.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/the-significa
Pesquisa usa 115 milhões de animais por ano no
nt-impact-of-animal-testing-on-the-environment/
mundo, diz ativista | Novidades da ciência para
https://www.dw.com/pt-br/pesquisa-usa-115-milh%C3%B
5es-de-animais-por-ano-no-mundo-diz-ativista/a-1717413 melhorar a qualidade de vida | DW | 21.10.2013
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