• “I Am Putting You in Charge”
    Awake!—1980 | June 22

    • IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE:

      •Monkeys and rabbits forced to smoke until they die of lung

      cancer.

      •Electric shocks given until animals lie helpless.

      •Rabbits pinioned in stocks have boxes of tsetse flies attached to

      their ears. Others have eye makeup and hair dyes put into their

      naked eyes until eyes ulcerated.

      •Monkeys starved, forced to run on treadmills and subjected to

      radiation. Average time until death: 37 hours.

      •Cats blinded, castrated, sense of smell destroyed, nerves in sex

      organs cut, and then tested as to sexual responses.

      •Vocal cords destroyed so animals can’t scream.

      •In United States alone, 64,000,000 animals killed annually in

      such medical experiments.

  • “I Am Putting You in Charge”
    Awake!—1980 | June 22

    • If animals may be used as food to sustain people’s lives, it seems reasonable to use them in medical experiments to save lives. However, this is no license for unrestricted and often valueless, repetitious experiments involving intense suffering. Many scientists are questioning the ethics of cruel experiments. Jeremy J. Stone, director of the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists, said: “The lives and suffering of animals must surely count for something.” British physiologist Dr. D. H. Smyth agrees: “Some knowledge can be obtained at too high a price.” In his book Alternatives to Animal Experiments, Dr. Smyth shows many options open to researchers other than torturous animal experiments. The price of knowledge does not have to be such cruelties as shown in the chart on the right.