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I dreaded this day. I saw all my friends being put through excruciating amounts of pain every day. And today is my day to go through it. There were thousands and now it is just the few of us waiting to go to the same dark room these humans refer to as laboratories. We refer to it as the “Devil’s room.” Chemicals being rubbed on our eyes , sometimes on our shaved skin. I hear their screams and I cannot help but wonder, “What did we ever do to deserve such cruelty?” My friend told me once about the incident where 100 people died when a chemical reaction was caused by an untested liquid antibiotic . This led to testing the products on us first . We became subjects to such unethical torture because they saw us fit to bear such pain. The reason behind it ? To ensure “their” safety

A lot goes on that table. We are addicted to drugs, forced to inhale toxic substances which have never been tested on before. We are made to face maternal deprivation just to see how our bodies react to it. It doesn’t just stop there. We are deafened, blinded, burned, and stapled, and what’s worse is that they do it with no guilt in their eyes. Deadly carcinogenic chemicals are tested on us, on pregnant women and their fetuses. Let me tell you about the test that petrifies us the most. The LD50 test, also known as the median lethal test, in which we are forcibly fed various doses of chemical substances till half of our population is wiped out. This is done to determine the amount of the substance humans can endure before it reaches a toxic level. They say this provides them with statistically valid data, but at what cost? I have lost too many of my companions to this deadly test. We can feel every inch of the chemical as it passes through our bodies. As they increase the dosage, it keeps getting more unbearable until we cannot endure it anymore and we die. We know that the end result is death, and as we are forced to go through this torture, we beg for an early one.

I think it is time. I hear footsteps approaching. They are going to pick us up in bulk.

They have prepared us for this day. I see all my friends trying to escape, but I know it is useless. I have given up. We will have to go into that room, to that table. I see the progress this world is making in leaps and bounds. Then why does this practise of insanity still continue? Is there no other alternative to this barbaric act that continues to be legal in so many countries? There is a law which is framed to protect animals against such mistreatment, known as the Animal Welfare Act , but not all animals are protected under this law. In fact, 95% of the animals used in these experiments remain unrecognised and hence unprotected.

More than a hundred million of us are harmed every year due to these tests. As I prepare myself to face the pain, I plead with all my might to use alternatives to using us as models and boycott this torture