Drug testing and cruelty to Primates...

The Video that I have a link for on here is to an undercover investigation done by PETA. This video is not as graphic as the one from the Conklin Dairy Farm. However, I must still warn that this video is still very disturbing. These monkeys are tied up on tables and put in restraint tubes to have blood drawn from them. The technicians shoved tubes in their nose all the way down to their stomachs to force experimental drugs into them. The corruption of this company is disgusting. There is testing done on animals all over the place. This video is just disgusting. Some of the captions through the video are of conversations between the technicians saying they will kill the animal or "beat it's ass". This is blatant disrespect for another living being.

The animals are being stuffed in cages with no socialization. This leads to psychosis for these monkeys. They can be seen in the video running in continuous circles or jumping the bars in the cage in a circle. They are going insane being put in these cages all the time. There was a caption with a conversation with a vet from the lab stating that they were not allowed to examine the animals. For some it was nothing or death. No animal deserves to be treated in this fashion.

There should be laws against people using animals for drug testing. I do not think that we need to use animals to test new drugs or food. There are other ways to find out if something is good enough for us to use. Even if they had the animals socialized on a regular basis, there was no abuse, and they were kept in a great environment resembling their natural habitat, to put them through drug testing even on a weekly or monthly basis is cruel. I know that I am going be more careful what products I buy and use. If there is even a chance that an animal could have been used to test it. I know that I can not keep from it completely. If I can be more careful maybe one innocent animal can be saved from this horrid abuse and cruelty. I would feel that I have done some to help.

These labs may think that it is profitable for them to use these animals to test on. I think that they need to take a deeper look into what they are doing. I do not think they would find it that wonderful if this stuff was happening to them. They would not like being treated the way these monkeys are. I think this should be everyone's thoughts when it comes to doing any of these things to someone or something. Would you like that to be done to you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx_4s5YWKLE

Dairy Farm Brutality

This is a dairy farm in Plain City, Ohio not too far from Columbus. The pictures and video were taken by hidden camera. I must warn ahead of time any video related to this story is extremely graphic! The people involved have been charged with animal cruelty. The really sad thing about it is the owner was doing the abusing as well. There were employees that were punching cows, bulls, and calves in their heads. One of the employees dropped a calf from about five or six feet overhead and then kicked the calf in the head several times. There was an employee that tied a bull by the nose to a metal bar and proceeded to hit the bull in the head with a crow bar. There was another incident where an employee poked a cow with a pitchfork very hard in the side. There was one man in the video saying that it felt so good once he got started that he just had to keep going.

This entire story is just completely disgusting. I started watching the video and I almost got sick to my stomach. I could not finish watching it. The people I think need to have some more charges pressed on them. The owner should be charged with animal cruelty and should not be allowed to ever run a business related to animals. If he does decide to run a business related to animals, he should be fined and sent back to jail. I think this should be in effect even if it is found that he is not proven to be abusing the animals again. These animals do not deserve to be treated this way.

There needs to be stricter penalties for crimes of this nature. The one employee that was charged with animal cruelty received eight months in jail. I know for the courts to find that they have done to them what they did to these animals would be cruel and unusual punishment. I still think that there needs to be stiffer penalties for animal abuse. There should be mandatory psychiatric help for anyone that abuses animals as well. I think that if anyone is abusing animals like this, this person is not mentally healthy. Most of us know what pain feels like. Why would anyone want to inflict pain on other people or animals? I think that animals need to have a lot more protection from people like these. There is no excuse for what these people did.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20006028-504083.html