Researchers also use animals for tests to try to protect the public from dangerous chemicals, (Day, 13) such as those included in detergents, bleach, and other household products. ... The type of animals used in this field include rodents, dogs, cats, fish, birds (chickens, hens, pigeons) rabbits, frogs, pigs, sheep, and primates. ... They would force they eyes of the rabbit open and let mustard gas fester for days, they would then compare their findings to the effects on humans. ... The latest amendment was passed in 1990, which concerned the welfare of guinea pigs, hamsters and rabbits. ... ...

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I would also like to tell you what really happens to the animals that are eaten day after day, meal after meal, by Americans and increasingly, by people around the globe. ... These chickens live an average of only 4 to 5 years, whereas they would normally live for 15-20 years. ... When they are slaughtered at about 16 weeks, they are usually too sick or crippled to even walk. 1 in every 10 die in confinement. ... Pigs are subjected to the same type of treatment as well. Although pigs are naturally peaceful and social animals, they resort to cannibalism and tailbiting when confined. ...

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No, you are a duck that will soon be served in a high class restaurant in New York. ... Some would say yes. ... Then I remembered a bumper sticker that I saw earlier that day. ... There are some animals that are carnivores and would die without meat. ... Is that why they were put here The answer is no. ...

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Being a slave was no easy task. Slave owners would keep these poor innocent Black human beings, making them work in the hot humid sun all day long with out much food or water at all. ... Sometimes, a few victims usually young children would hastily be kidnapped when no one was looking or around to see this terrible thing going on. ... Some people died from all this beatings, or from grief, illness, and exhaustion. ... It was called the Underground Railroad, but it had no engines and no trains. ...

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They all would come to the aid of the one threatened from an outside attack. ... They believed that more negotiations would eventually work. ... With the separation of -4- Germany, no one knew what would become of Germany or where it would be in the future. ... Korea would be a -5- divided country full of hostility for many years. ... The danger, some scientists believed, was that having a bomb this large would react with the nitrogen or hydrogen in the atmosphere and create a chain reaction. ...

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• Grade Level: High School