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Cruelty to Animals: Your Donation Dollars at Work
The American Cancer Society (ACS)
is its own out-of-control malignancy. The ACS has bankrolled horrific experiments on cats, frogs, mice, and other animals. For example, the ACS has induced stomach ulcers in monkeys and left the diseased animals untreated and in pain while forcing them to live alone in isolation chambers during a nine-month study. This life-taker charity has also funded experiments in which cats were made partially brain-dead and then had their hind limbs cut so that a major nerve was exposed and pulled free from the surrounding tissue in horrific pain experiments.
The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA)
raises funds to help children with neuromuscular diseases, but "Jerry's Kids" would be better off if the MDA hadn't funded pointless experiments in which vivisectors cut out cat skeletal muscles and grafted them back into the same cats to test how well the autotransplants would perform. These cats, who were mutilated and in pain, were observed for more than 450 days—15 months! Other experimenters kept hamsters with the symptoms of muscular dystrophy in constant cold (39° F) to see if their disease would develop differently under those conditions.
The March of Dimes
sells babies down the river by throwing resources into useless experiments. In one experiment funded by the March of Dimes, kittens whose eyes were sewn shut were left in horrifying conditions for a year and then killed. Because it has already been well established that humans' and nonhumans' optical development is fundamentally different, the findings of this study were meaningless. March of Dimes-funded experimenters administered cocaine, nicotine, and alcohol to pregnant rats, even though the harmful effects of these substances on developing babies is well known. The charity has also funded an experimenter at the notoriously cruel Oregon Regional Primate Research Center who tethered pregnant monkeys to their cage walls by wires implanted in their backs.
The American Heart Association (AHA)
is heartless to animals. It has killed hundreds of dogs, pigs, goats, and rats. The AHA continues to induce heart attacks and strokes in animals, even though all major advances in studying heart disease and stroke have come from human data. AHA has induced painful, progressive heart failure in dogs over a nine-month period, cut holes into the throats of live goats, subjected their muscles to electrical stimulation, and obstructed their breathing in order to study sleep apnea.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA)
needs help learning how to better direct its bloated annual budget of almost $180 million. A wealth of information gleaned through population and clinical studies indicates that diabetes can be prevented and beaten with a low-fat vegan diet and exercise. But rather than promote risk reduction, prevention, and even reversal of disease with imaginative campaigns based on lifestyle concerns, the ADA funds cruel animal experiments. In one set of experiments, researchers cut pregnant rats to retard the development of their fetuses. They wanted to test whether retarding growth would make rats more likely to develop type 2 diabetes later in life-as they already knew it did for people. Vivisectors elsewhere bred mice to be born diabetic. The mice died of hyperglycemia within three days.
The American Lung Association (ALA)
lets animals' lives go up in a puff of smoke. Even though animal studies of lung disease have often proved inaccurate, ALA-funded experimenters inserted catheters into pregnant sheep and surgically removed sections of their uteruses. Later, the baby sheep were delivered by caesarean section and the mothers were killed. Within 5 minutes of their birth, the newborns were subjected to additional surgery. In another study conducted by an investigator who received an ALA research award, pregnant primates had their babies surgically removed and killed to compare the lung tissue of fetuses at different stages of development. |
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