PETA has learned of two experiments on dogs that BHF funded. Heart disease rarely occurs in dogs, and it’s usually because they have been bred to grow abnormally large. In one BHF-funded study, experimenters cut open dogs’ chests and circulated their blood out of their bodies and back in again in order to cause the blood pressure in the dogs’ neck arteries to change rapidly. The experimenters’ conclusion? That a person who bends down and suddenly stands up could experience dizziness and fainting! In another experiment, experimenters implanted electrodes into dogs and injected other dogs’ blood into their bodies. The stated purpose was to find out about blood storage in the liver, even though the experimenters acknowledged that dogs store their blood differently from people.
Experiments on animals will yield information about animals – not people! Animals and humans share the capacity for suffering, but physiologically, we are very different. For this reason, drug development and testing on animals has been downright dangerous. After decades of experiments on animals, we have no cure for cancer, no cure for AIDS, no cure for Alzheimer’s, no cure for mad cow disease and little but vague assurances about progress to hang our hopes on.
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