Because of sports injuries!!

I heard recently that the U.S. National Football League’s Foundation continues to give multimillions for experiments on animals at leading universities. The NFL is motivated: American-style football players have suffered brain and bodily injuries playing the game - even though they wore helmets and padded clothing.

A group of severely brain injured players sued the NFL in a class action and won $765 million dollars! They need to figure out how to protect the players better and have turned to scientists to study sports injuries.

The experiments make no sense at all!

How does smashing a poor little mouse’s head with a hammer have anything to do with a human -- wearing a helmet -- getting injured in a football game? There are lots of studies that show these kinds of experiments relating animals to humans have little or no validity. Our brains and bodies are different.

And yet, laboratories in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere around the world continue to harm animals for so-called scientific purposes. It’s ridiculous! Experiments on animals have to stop!

Every day I hear of the cruelest treatment of animals in the name of Science.

I just cannot understand why some of the world’s best educated people - those scientists working at the world’s leading universities - can also be some of the world’s greatest idiots! How did they lose their basic humanity and compassion? Don’t they understand that nothing justifies deliberate cruelty to living things?

Recently, it was revealed that Imperial College London, ranked 8^th in the world, maintains hidden laboratories where hellish animal experiments go on.

Everyone needs to be made aware so that things can change - from the students at universities where this is allowed who could march in and free the animals (as I did when very young) to the politicians who could affect the changes. The British Home Office Minister, Lynne Featherstone, claimed in 2011:

“The UK has one of the most rigorous systems in the world to
ensure that animal research and testing is strictly regulated.”

That may be so -- but independent investigators have proven again and again that the cruelty continues behind closed doors.

It’s time to pull open those doors!

Stop the needless torture of helpless animals!

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