Look me in the eyes! Please don’t torture me!Experimental animals suffer – Experimental animals lament

The goal of animal testing is to promote human health. If this were to work out, then considering the huge numbers of animal experiments, the fight against the illness and diseases of human beings should have made considerable progress. Is this really so?

The criticism of animal testing is as old as animal testing itself. Over and over again, not only animal protectors, but also scientists go public to warn against the negative effects of animal testing.

Building costs for a new animal testing center in Würzburg, Germany:
31 Million Euro
Money available in Germany for research projects not using animals: less than 4 Million Euro

»An evaluation of the clinical relevance of approved proposals for animal tests: After 10 years no evidence that they had been put into practice in human medicine.«

In order to comprehend what an animal experiment means for a mouse or a rat, it is helpful to learn about the life of these rodents.

Mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, geese and other animals are stressed more via mere handling and so-called routine examinations than previously assumed. The stress reactions of the animals falsify the data resulting from the animal testing.

Particularly bitter for the animals and many animal protectors is the attitude of the churches toward this topic of vital importance. It says in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: »Medical and scientific experimentation on animals is a morally acceptable practice if it remains within reasonable limits and contributes to caring for or saving human lives. (2417)«

Human beings are supposed to be the image of God. A large part of humanity has become the image of its fate, because the torments and suffering of our second neighbors, the animals, will become the torment, the suffering and often the agonizing dying of people.