Animal testing

Have you eaten a hamburger recently? Well, let me tell you how your hamburger was made. A pneumatic nail gun is placed against a cow’s heads and fired. The gun is designed so that the nail never completely leaves the gun, but simply is blown into the animal's head and then pulled out by the butcher as the animal collapses. After the animal has collapsed, but is still conscious, the side of the killing …

…week later. The most common tests involve dripping a material into rabbits' eyes or applying it to the shaved backs of rabbits or guinea pigs and studying the resulting irritation or damage. Restrained to the point of immobility, some rabbits break their backs fighting the restraints. Rabbits are used because they have a special membrane on their eyes that retains the chemicals. The report states this is necessary to test the irritancy of the substance.