Artifact 1

Moore, Heather. "Joe Camel Isn't The Only Animal Who Smokes." SIRS Knowledge Source: Search Results. November 13, 2006. December 6, 2006. <http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMD1409-0-7604&artno=0000254578&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=Y&ic=Y>.

I just read the article, and after reading the article I was even more disgusted by animal testing than I was before. It seems like a lot of people are trying to stop animal testing, but businesses like tabacco industries seem to be able to work their way around it. The industries know what they are doing is killing animals, but they do research which they then use to try and prove that it's not as bad.

The article mentions how smokers know that they are hurting themselves by smoking as well as the people around them, but they don't realize that they are hurting animals around them as well.

Animal testing has cost "millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of animal lives." The experiments are so "inhumane and pointless that they have been illegal in Britian since 1997."

The paragraph that made me think the most, as well as make me feel sick to my stomach, was the following paragraph. "To further its goal of selling cigarettes, the tobacco industry has funded experimenters who have cut holes in beagles' throats and made them breathe concentrated cigarette smoke for a year. They've inserted electrodes into dogs' penises to measure the effect of cigarette smoke on their sexual performance. They've confined rhesus monkeys to chairs with head devices and exposed them to nicotine and caffeine to determine how these substances affect their breathing. Cigarette smoke has been pumped directly into the nostrils of rats and mice. Millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of animal lives have been wasted on experiments that are so inhumane and pointless that they have been illegal in Britain since 1997. " It made me sick reading how people could treat other living things like this, and I don't think that just because these living things are animals that it gives human beings the right to treat them this way.

What do I want to know?

Questions.
What are some things people like you and me could do to stop animal testing?
What are people doing to stop animl testing?
What do products say that shows you that it doesn't test on animals.
Are products that are not tested on animals more expensive because of it?
Why do people test on animals?
Is the testing on animals increasing or decreasing?
What kind of things are tested on animals?
What are things that have happend to animals during/after animal testing?

What do I know?

Animal testing. People use animals to test things on that are most likely too unsafe to test on humans. This leads to animals getting sick and eventually dying. Why is OK to test on animals but not on humans? Is it because animals can't express their feelings the same way humans can? Does that make it OK? I don't think it does.

OK, I get that you have to test certain things on something, but isn't there anything else you can test these things on? If there isn't, why not spend time to figur out something that you could test things on?

There's programs that are trying to stop animal testing, but I don't think you hear a lot about it. You definitly don't hear enough.

Some people check to make sure that they don't buy products that were tested on animals. You can find out stuff like this by checking the label on the back of the product. Products like these include shampoo, conditioner, and other beauty products.