THIS COULD BE THE MOST HORRIFIC ANIMAL SUFFERING PICTURE YOU WILL SEE TODAY, & YOU PROBABLY CANNOT TELL WHAT’S HAPPENING. This is the horror of industrial scale animal experimentation. #Rats have been forced into tubes and inserted into this device. #EndAnimalExperiments
These inquisitive, intelligent beings are unable to move and must be terrified. This contraption can choke to death up to 50 #animals at a time. Next, a technician switches on the machine and it fills with aerosol paint.
These animals are trapped & utterly immobile, with the only air available suddenly thick with choking paint for 3 hours. Half of them died, with survivors barely alive at the end of the test. The conclusion? Forced inhalation of paint is poisonous to #rats. #StopAnimalTesting
This is so-called product ‘safety testing’, demanded by product safety regulators worldwide, conducted in secret by commercial contract testing laboratories. Even in countries where #animaltesting is licensed & regulated (like the UK), there is no public scrutiny of such tests.
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On #InternationalWomensDay we salute all women who have helped drive the #animalrights movement. Here are just a few without whom ADI would not be what it is today. ADI President Jan Creamer & Yani Mateus of ADI Colombia sending off big cats to a new life at #ADIWildlifeSanctuary
CSI star & ADI Ambassador @JorjaFoxofficia promoting #StopCircusSuffering campaign. ADI veterinarians Ines Nole, Eva Chomba & Jimena Delgadillo taking care of Smith during Peru rescue. ADI’s Jan & Jett (Executive Director of our LA office) care for Rolex during Peru rescue.
Dr Lo Sprague & Rev Dr Gwynne Guibord, founders of the #ADIWildlifeSanctuary (ADIWS), whose documentary ANIMA was produced by @GuibordCenter, for ADI. Actress Kim Matula hosted most recent Congressional launch of #TEAPSPA. ADIWS Director Karen Williams during recent dental work.
LUCHO was saved from a small concrete pen during a dawn raid by #ADI on an #illegalzoo in Peru, in 2015. The friendly #spectacledbear enjoyed five precious years in the forest habitat we provided at @TaricayaE, where he loved to float on his back in his pool.
JUNIOR was #rescued by #ADI in 2014 from a #circus in Colombia, & was one of the 33 #lions we airlifted home to Africa. He was taken from us by cancer at about 9 years old, but got to roam his piece of Africa with brothers Bumba & Zeus at the #ADIWildliifeSanctuary.
#1 Magic moments 2020: The January arrival of 17 #lions & #tigers#rescued from #circuses in Guatemala at the #ADIWildlifeSanctuary in South Africa, marked more than just a wonderful new life for those animals. It meant animal circuses had been eliminated in another country.
During #ADI’s grueling 18-month operation to enforce the ban, we faced threats, mobs & abuse & finally had to quickly evacuate & relocate the temporary rescue center.
The flight was beset with difficulties – countries refusing landing permits, extra costs, & special security measures at the temporary rescue center, gave us a very long haul with stops in Mexico, Belgium & aircraft change in Qatar for the final flight to Johannesburg.