Debt for Deaths

   When we pay our taxes, I can almost guarantee we don't expect that check we just wrote to go towards the death of millions of innocent, defenseless animals. 100 million animals are tortured or killed each year in the U.S due to experiments. Even every day people who don't normally take a stand still don't like animals to be expirimented on.
   On movies or on store bought products, why else would they put "no animals were harmed in the making"? Because it is appealing to buyers. Yet, the government still uses OUR money to fund expiriments. Ohio state university spends $1.9 million on heart attack expiriments for dogs. The Origan National Primate Research Center spends $5 million dollars for obesity expiriments on monkeys. I can understand maybe doing a few expiriments if you believed they would result in something like a cure or a way to prevent heart attacks and obesity, but we are still the most overweight country in the world, and hundreds are people are still having heart attacks. So what is their justification for these expiriments now?
   Our country is billions, if not trillions of dollars in debt, yet $16 billion of our taxes are going towards these expiriments each year. There is so many better things we could do for our country with that amount of money. For example, we could "provide $606 per month to the 22 million households in which senior citizens go to bed hungry." Or "provide $833 per month to the 1.6 million veterans who are homeless or at risk of losing their home." Here's one that any tax-payer would love: "give back an additional $190 per year in federal income taxes to 84 million households."
   One of the comments on this article makes a very good point. First of all, animal's biological makeup is obviously different from humans, so why test products on them? They are going to respond differently to them no matter how many times you try. Also, there are plenty of people who voluntarily commit their lives for expiriments to help a greater cause. Why not use them instead of creatures that, when put in this kind of situation, have no say in what is done to them or how their life will be treated?
   Like another comment points out to all of those poeple who support animal testing, what if that was your pet that was being tortured? Every day,  A precious little animal that somebody got emotionally attached to is suffering. For what? To improve knowledge to increase human life? Well, when there is no benefit from thse deaths, there is no justification. I agree with PETA and support them in their effort to prevent animal testing.


http://www.peta.org/features/more-than--16-billion-in-taxpayer-money-wasted-annually-on-animal-testing.aspx