What You Have Done To These The Least Of My Brethren You Have Done Unto Me Poem by Saiom Shriver

Billions of animals have been burned, injected with poisons, decapitated, drowned, dismembered, drugged, starved, nailed to research tables, debarked (laryngectomies) , exhausted in forced swimming and other experiments, frozen, electrically shocked, confined in restraining chairs or stereotaxic devices, have had their spines, arms or legs broken, their eyes needled or stitched shut. They have been invaded by piercing noise, exposed to bright light 24 hours a day, deprived of sleep until death. They have died of thirst, of suffocation, of excess heat. They have been isolated, exploited in maternal deprivation studies, used as explosives carriers, shot into space to rotate in the void until their deaths, Pets have been stolen from people's yards for the endless greed and ignorance of the research industrial complex. Thousands of human beings are dead or were born deformed because the thalidomide which mutilated them did nothing to dogs