At this very moment, pregnant monkeys are being kept in small, metal, barren cages and their fetuses exposed to nicotine at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center. 2500 primates are imprisoned within the walls of the ORPRC. It receives $15 Million in federal tax dollars each year to subject primates to a variety of cruel and useless experiments.

Other examples of smoking experiments on animals include: cutting holes in beagles throats and forcing them to breathe cigarette smoke through a trach tube for a year, inserting electrodes into dogs' penises to measure the effect of cigarette smoking on sexual performance and strapping masks to animals faces, forcing them to breathe in cigarette smoke.

*Click on the picture for video footage of the ORPRC monkeys

Sewn shut newborn kittens' eyes, then killed them after they had endured a year of blindness.
Put newborn kittens in completely dark chambers, then killed them after three to five months.
Removed fetal kittens from the uterus, implanted pumps into their backs to inject a drug that destroys nerves, then re-Implanted the fetuses in the uterus. After the kittens were born, they were killed and studied.
Implanted electric pumps into the backs of pregnant rats to inject nicotine, even though the dangers of cigarette smoking to human babies is already known.
Injected pregnant rats with cocaine, though the dangers of cocaine to human babies is already known.
Injected newborn opossums with alcohol, decapitated them an hour to 32 weeks later, then removed and studied the gonads (immature sexual organs), though the dangers of alcohol to human babies is well known.
Transplanted organs from pigs to baboons, most of whom died within hours.
Transplanted organs from guinea pigs to rats.
Destroyed the ear drums of unborn lambs, then killed the mother sheep and lambs just before birth to examine the brains.

NOTE: Animal studies can be dangerous and put babies at risk. The antibiotic "streptomycin" was tested on dogs, pigs and guinea pigs and deemed safe for people. Infants who were given the drug suffered brain damage, went deaf or blind, or died.

Other charities that participate in animal research and suffering include: American Cancer Society, Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Heart Association, American Dianetes Association and the American Lung Association.

*For a list of charities that do and do not use animals in research click on the monkeys picture.

Iams pet food may put forth a wholesome animal-loving image, but it pays labs to conduct cruel tests on animals. The ammonia fumes in animal trailers were sometimes so overpowering that employees had to go home because their eyes burned so bad. The animals never got to leave. 60 dogs had chunks of muscle cut out of their thigh and were piled together on a filthy concrete floor, violating regulations that require sterile surgical conditions. Two of the dogs were found dead in their cages. One suffered for 11 days prior to her death. Employees stuck tubes down the dogs throat and forced them to ingest vegetable oil. Cats are kept in cinderblock rooms with crude resting boards with nails sticking out of them. One cat was crushed to death when a board fell on top of her. Dogs are debarked so that the researchers do not have to hear their cries for attention or pain.

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