North Utah Valley Animal Shelter Sells Pets For Experimental Purpose

I don’t know what to think because i feel bad for the animals especially since most of the times the animals are dying for nothing. Since sometimes a drug could work on the animal but be a fail on the human. But animal testing has helped us in the long run.

A front for corporate interests

The so-called Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), founded by Washington lobbyist Richard Berman and his firm Berman & Co., is an industry front for tobacco, alcohol, and agribusiness interests. The group’s stock-in-trade involves malicious attacks on organizations that promote food safety, public health, or animal welfare.

It was started with a $600,000 grant from tobacco giant Phillip Morris. In the pay and in the pocket of corporate special interests that profit from animal cruelty, CCF has always sought to thwart The HSUS’s work to combat factory farming, puppy mills, the Canadian seal slaughter, commercial whaling, and other large-scale cruelties. Among other targets, CCF has also attacked Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for their anti-drunk driving and public health campaigns.

All I use PETA for is the updates they send out by email. I don’t approve with a lot they do either but the are good at getting the word out about different things.

I think it is time to educate people. I am so tired of PETA playing out to be some glorious organization and others to be monsters.. Don’t get me wrong, I do think that some of the things PETA has done and some of the organizations that it has stopped have been in good means, however, there are two sides to ever story… and here are some facts about PETA that they fail to mention..

**In 2009 PETA euthanized 97% of the animals they had in their custody! ( they only adopted eight animals — out of the 2366 it took in.)

**A PETA co-founder Alex Pacheco said, “We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded children”.. (wow – really?!) **PETA continually Funds the “Animal Liberation Front” which the FBI calls ALF and ELF the nation’s “most serious domestic terrorism threat.”.

** PETA has a group of Physicians, “Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine” – which in all reality, less than 5 percent of these members actually have any type of medical degree. **PETA spends less than one percent of its multi-million dollar budget actually helping animals.

**Bill Maher, an endorser for PETA said, “To those people who say, `My father is alive because of animal experimentation,’ I say `Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.’ Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade off.”

**The PRESIDENT of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, said “Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.” ** Also people, if you Google PETA and look at the images – the first SEVEN pages are related to pornographic material – is this really an organization that seems respectable?!

** PETA’s president has said that “even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it.” (Does everyone realize that 1 out of every 2 African’s die from Aid’s? And you don’t think that is worth fixing?)

** PETA discourages Americans from making donations to health charities like the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, the American Red Cross, and even Boys Town. All because they support research that requires animals, in order to cure human diseases.

*If you ask my opinion, PETA is no different than the 6th grade bully in elementary school who is picking on the 3rd grader. Stand up what you believe in, but harming people or property in the process is immature and not respectable in my mind. Really people you should stop believing everything you read and do some research.. Look into things before you assume. http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/docs/200810_CCF_7Things_PETA.pdf

Many charities and charity shops fund animal experiments,they are too numerous to list here and I don’t of course know the ones in the USA.
So if you seriously want to help stop this uneccessary cruelty, before donating to any charity ensure your money isn’t going to pay for instruments of torture and to pay lab workers for using them.
You can check on the internet easily if they are ‘good guys’ or ‘bad guys’ by doing a google search or you can ask the charity directly.
If we all only support non animal testing charities the ‘bad guys’ will soon get the message that in these days of alternatives torturing animals will not be tolerated any longer.

Send copies of this article to the Salt Lake Tribune and the paper of the nearest big city to Lindon {probably Logan} It is a disgrace, many shelters charge reasonable fees because they get little help from city or county, but this is highway robbery and murder

Send copies of this article to the Salt Lake Tribune and the paper of the nearest big city to Lindon {probably Logan} It is a disgrace, many shelters charge reasonable fees because they get little help from city or county, but this is highway robbery and murder

Animal experiments are not only unethical they are UNRELIABLE.
Do you know that 80% of drugs tested on animals fail miserably when tested on people? because YOU ARE NOT A CAT OR A DOG OR A GUINEA PIG.

Using animals in experiments is outdated bad science
It doesn’t matter if they are from a pound or bred for use in experiments it is immoral.

This is animal abuse in it’s worst form and must be stopped.

All these kinds of shelters are just out to get all the money they can.

There needs to be laws passed to make these kinds of experiments criminal acts with jail time.

Good work Eliza.

I’m totally against animal testing. And I do plan to research the subject more. Like I said, I don’t know all the answers. I’m curious on whether computer testing can be done on pacemakers. I may do an entire story on the alternatives to animal testing. There are probably others out there who don’t know other ways to test medical devices.

I commented a few hours ago and it never posted so this is my second try at this one.

I’m very much against animal testing. And I do need to do more research to find out the options. Since there are options to cosmetic testing, there must be options to pacemaker testing. I’ll find them and perhaps do an article on it and educated those as ignorant on the subject as I am.

Like I said, I don’t have all the answers

To quote
“I know medical experiments have to be performed on something”
NO THEY DO NOT
For God’s sake do some more research into this topic.
You can not sit on the fence.
Make your mind up for or against laboratory experiments.
If you are for then there is no difference whether shelter animals or any other animals are the ones used.

This story needed to be told! This is cruel!

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One of our gaols in protecting nature with all animals also all animals living in houses.

I hope action can be taken to end this practice, but I wouldn’t want PETA running our local shelter either.

“…This is about something truly insidious. This is about a bully who seeks out animals to kill.”

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