Today is #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay so here are some shocking statistics on vivisection; a practice which I believe is one of most heinous crimes that the human race inflicts on non-human animals.
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95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately discarded as useless or dangerous to humans. You'd get more accurate results from flipping a coin. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever seen in animals. Over 98% never are. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in lab animals. They are allowed because it is admitted that animal tests are not relevant. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

One in six patients in hospital are there because the drug they have taken had been passed safe for use on humans after animal tests. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

When asked if they agreed that animal experimentation can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans, 88% of doctors agreed. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States and Europe. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

When the producers of thalidomide were taken to court, they were acquitted after numerous experts agreed animal tests could not be relied on for human medicine. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

Worldwide, at least 22 animals die every second in labs. In the UK one animal dies every five seconds. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

Dogs failed to predict heart problems caused by the cardiovascular drugs encainide and flecainide, which led to an estimated 3,000 deaths in the USA. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

Rats are 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer in humans. Again - more accuracy in flipping a coin. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

According to animal tests lemon juice is deadly poison, but arsenic, hemlock and botulin are safe. Morphine puts humans asleep but excites cats. We use aspirin for aches and pains. It causes birth defects in mice, rabbits and rats. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL

Researchers refused to believe that benzene could cause cancer in humans because it failed to in animal tests.
It was denied for decades that asbestos caused disease in humans because it didn’t in animals. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

As one researcher points out, “the ultimate dilemma with any animal model of human disease is that it can never reflect the human situation with complete accuracy."
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Over 200,000 medicines passed as safe in animals have mostly been withdrawn. According to the World Health Organisation, 240 medicines are ‘essential’.
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Aspirin fails animal tests, as do digitalis (heart drug), insulin (causes animal birth defects), cancer treatments, penicillin and other safe medicines. They would be banned if results from animal experimentation were accurate. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #United4AnimalsInLabs

At least 450 methods exist with which we can replace animal experiments. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs http://www.animalfreeresearchuk.org 

Labs in the USA that use mice, rats, birds, reptiles and amphibians are exempted from the minimal protections under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

At least 115 million animals are used in experiments worldwide each year. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

According to a 2016 report in the UK, almost 700,000 animals were subjected to experiments that even the researchers considered had caused them moderate or severe suffering. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals
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Of the 2.0 million UK experiments conducted on animals in 2016, 55% (1.1 million experiments) were in the area of basic research – merely driven by the curiosity of university researchers.
Only 13% of experiments were required by regulators. #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL

Out of 93 dangerous drug side effects, only 19% could have been predicted by animal tests, a recent study found. (Remember the 'flipping a coin' analogy?) #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs

They NEED us to keep making noise. Vivisection has gone on for too long, is immoral, inexcusable, & needs to be consigned to the history books.
Join us at 12:00PM today & hold a minutes silence for all the animals lost and those still incarcerated in labs. #SilentForAnimalsInLabs

Join @ajpReact in their day of action for #WorldDayForLaboratoryAnimals #WDAIL #WorldLabAnimalDay #United4AnimalsInLabs https://twitter.com/ajpReact/status/1253617634735730688?s=19

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