Every year, over one million animals—mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are murdered in United States laboratories in the name of science. They go through a number of extremely traumatic experiences—forced chemical exposure (such as force-feeding, inhalation, or injection); exposure to drugs, chemicals, or diseases that cause illness, pain and distress, or death; prolonged periods of physical restraint; deprivation of food and water; infliction of wounds, burns, or other injuries to study healing; and other manipulations to create “animal models” of human diseases ranging from cancer to stroke to depression—before being brutally and inhumanely killed by decapitation, neck-breaking, or other
