Here's some food for thought. An excerpt from the essay:
Today as many as 115 million animals are tortured and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every year. Many of these experiments—including infecting dogs with diseases, blinding kittens, dripping caustic chemicals in rabbits' eyes, and force-feeding poisons to monkeys—are paid for by taxpayers' dollars even though we are now in the 21st century and have progressive, animal-free alternatives. Animals in laboratories suffer and die only because they are considered "different" and "inferior" and are powerless to defend themselves.
