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Alexandria
say_propaganda
07 September 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Ever start to wonder?  
Huh, so I've been really looking into politics lately.

I quite recently got this letter from one of our senators, because I e-mailed his office, telling him what I thought about animal testing:

Dear Ms.
Jones:

Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition to testing drugs and cosmetics on animals. I share your concern for the welfare of animals, and I am supportive of legislation to help our country move away from its use of animals in clinical tests.


Currently, animals are used for myriad scientific tests. Some of these, such as testing animals’ intelligence or observing their social interactions, are benign and contribute to scientists’ understanding of biology, psychology, and sociology. On the other hand, many tests done on animals are used to test chemicals for safety in use on humans. These “toxicity tests” can be painful for the animals: researchers expose animals to chemicals in order to discover under what circumstances a chemical is dangerous. It is a logical necessity in these tests that animals will suffer – in fact, the entire test is designed to learn when and how animals suffer.


Because animal testing is often inhumane and cannot guarantee benefits to humans, there is a movement to shift our regulatory agencies’ focus away from animal-safety tests to non-animal tests. I am fully supportive of this endeavor, and was strongly supportive of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods Act of 2000, which established the federal agency charged with developing and certifying non-animal tests. I commend this agency’s important work, and I continue to support it through increased funding. I am hopeful that in the coming years, the ICCVAM will provide researchers with more effective, more humane tests.


Animal welfare is personally important to me. In the current Congress, I am a cosponsor of several bills to protect companion animals: S. 714, the Pet Safety and Protection Act; S. 1880, which would make dog-fighting a federal crime; and S. 2439, which would require the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track animal-cruelty crimes nationwide. I also strongly supported the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act, which passed the Senate in April and is now federal law. I have also pushed the Appropriations Committee to provide funding to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to develop plans for evacuating pets during emergencies, such as should have happened in Hurricane Katrina.


In addition to protecting pets, I am also committed to promoting the safety and well-being of farm animals. I am a sponsor of S. 311, the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, which would make it illegal to slaughter horses for human consumption. Working with the Humane Society of the United States, I have pushed for increased funding to enforce the laws which protect farm animals, including the Animal Welfare Act and the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.


I have long believed that a society’s treatment of its most vulnerable members – including animals – is the best measure of its civilization. The protections that our nation affords animals are the mark of our collective humanity.


Again, thank you for contacting me on this important issue. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future if I can ever be of help on this or any other matter.




Sincerely,

Charles E.
Schumer
United States Senator


He doesn't get it. We humans do not need animal testing. If we can clone and raise cloned dogs, then we can clone human tissues, and test on those. Dogs, rabbits, monkeys, and cats are primarily the ones to be tested on, and genetically, they all are so different from humans; even the monkeys, everyone. Animal testing is ridiculous. Animals should never be tortured "in the name of science." They shouldn't ever be tortured. I don't see animals going around, shooting people and whatnot; killing for some senseless cause... it just doesn't make any sense at all. Every species is so different from one another, that humans die because they take drugs that were tested on animals and called "all good." Shoving eyeliner into a rabbit's eye will not show a human how much that eye liner will hurt one's eye, or if that human will have an allergic reaction. Now, testing on animals to learn how they react with knowledge, and whatnot. Awww, how cute, a gorilla playing with some Legos on a table, sitting on a chair, in some secluded room... wtf?! Plus, does that gorilla get to then after go along and be with its family in the rain forest? No, it gets put in a cage and fed some leaves every once in a while.
 Are you kidding me here, senator?

Also, what have all of these organizations/Acts done lately? Does anyone know? Does anyone even care? I haven't seen much of anything going on, because things get passed, and then they do not get enforced. But, people do not question anything. They just go along, thinking that these things are going into action, though I can walk down the street each day, and find two adorable, little doggies running around in the road. -_- One more time that I find them in the road, I will either call some sort of animal services or I will take them and put them into loving homes, homes that do not want their cute, little doggies getting completely smooshed like road kill on the side of the road.
-_-

I feel like e-mailing this Senator guy through his little website that he has again, but I'll just end up with 1) him thinking that people who support all life are just crazy, and ruin it for the animal front (because I'd be saying the same thing right here, and we all know politicians -- they don't give a fuck what I have to say, unless I start a HUGE thing up about it, and get many people into it), or 2) it'll give animal liberators a "bad name," because little, young me wants to question authority.


Is this truly right? Should we all just go along with whatever the government says? No.

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