HELP! SAVE ME!

ALERT: This post may contain some photos which might not be pleasant for the eyes of those weak-hearted.

The recent death report of Xiang Xiang, a 5-year-old panda, has caused quite a stir within animal lovers worldwide. He was released from captivity in April 2006 into the wild but ended up dead in less than a year. Many people questioned the party involved whether releasing captive animals into the wild will prolong their lives.

Sybille Klenzendorf, director of the species program at the World Wildlife Fund, said programs like Wolong's are expensive and rarely successful. "It's so much cheaper and easier to invest into protection of wild habitats," she said, adding that the WWF works to do just that for pandas. "Unless you fix what was wrong in the first place, it's useless," she said. "Captivity won't save them." So how many more animals will human test before they are aware that animals should belong within their own habitat?

In 1980, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was founded to establish and defend the rights of all animals. With PETA’s establishment, animal protection work brings together members of the scientific, judicial, and legislative communities to stop abusive practices. Giant companies such as Coca Cola, Pepsi Co., General Motors have pulled out their funding for animal testing. Top fashion designers such as Ralph Lauren, Marc Bouwer and Stella McCartney have long ago banned the use of fur in their designs.

As many as 115 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories annually. Much of the experimentation which includes pumping chemicals into rats' stomachs, hacking muscle tissue from dogs' thighs, and putting baby monkeys in isolation chambers far from their mothers, are paid by the taxpayer and consumer. Animal experimentation is a multibillion-dollar industry fueled by massive public funding and involving a complex web of corporate, government, and university laboratories, cage and food manufacturers, and animal breeders, dealers, and transporters. The industry and its people profit because animals, which cannot defend themselves against abuse, are legally imprisoned and exploited.

Gosh…look at those screws…

The after effect of brain testing…

What is this new gadget? With masking tape?

How would you feel if you are the animal in the laboratory? Imagine living locked inside a closet without control over any aspect of your life. You can't choose when and what you eat, how you will spend your time, whether or not you will have a partner and children, and if you do, who that partner will be. Think about spending your entire life like this, even though you have committed no crime. Your life will always be in deprivation, isolation, and misery.

Even rats and rabbits are not spared…

On top of that, the animals are infected with diseases that they would never normally contract. Tiny mice grow tumors as large as their own bodies, kittens are purposely blinded, and rats are made to suffer seizures. Experimenters force-feed chemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries on them, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines, and much more. Think of what it would be like to endure this and then be dumped back into a cage, usually without any painkillers.

Six Million Dollars Cats? How more cruel can they be?

Think carefully how you would feel if such animals were to be deprived of a full normal lives, be it in their own natural habitats or in the comfort homes of us humans. Some might not even care because they assume animals are not humans at all. What is the difference between you and the animal then? Both also have lives of their own and lives are precious. You would not want to be deprived of a normal life span, so are the animals. It is best to leave them where they are supposed to be.

Look at those thick chains and their thin bodies

Disclaimer: This post is solely written for awareness purposes and none of its content is directly or indirectly targeted at any specific groups, organizations or whosoever. The author tried his best not to show too much violence in his post.