To date, there is a list of clothing brands, manufacturers of cosmetics and household chemicals, which in the process of creating their products test it for innocent animals. And it only grows.
So, according to the data of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, only in the USA annually 22 million (!) Unprotected animals are exploited in various studies, and about 85% of them are rats and mice.
The scientific community recognizes the invaluable role that all these babies played in the development of modern medicine, which has doubled the life expectancy of a person (from 40 to 70 years).
1. Monument of a laboratory mouse in Novosibirsk, Russia.
It is installed opposite the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. By the way, did you notice that the mouse knits a double helix of DNA?
2. Monument to monkeys, Sukhumi, Abkhazia.
This sculptural monument is dedicated to monkeys for their services to experimental medicine. It was installed in honor of the 50th anniversary of the nursery of mammals. Interestingly, on the pedestal, which is the leader of the flock of Hamadrils, Murray, recorded the names of human diseases, which the world learned through experiments on monkeys.
3. Monument to animals, Grodno, Belarus.
At the Medical University of Grodno you can see a monument to animals with gratitude "for an invaluable contribution to the development of medical science".
4. Monument to dogs, Ufa, Russia.
In Ufa there is a bronze statue of an adult dog and a puppy. It is dogs used for research related to the treatment of dental diseases. And in this city there are a lot of dental clinics, so it is quite appropriate to show this gratitude to the four-armed heroes.
5. Monument to the dog Pavlova, St. Petersburg, Russia.
It is located in the inner courtyard of the Institute of Experimental Medicine (FGBIU "IEM"), which is located on the Aptekarsky Island (the northern part of the Neva Delta). The predecessors of the scientist often put cruel experiments on dogs, which often led to the death of animals. Ivan Pavlov, on the contrary, treated his pets with special care.
6. Monument to Laika, Moscow, Russia.
Everyone knows who Laika is, an ordinary domestic dog that later became the first four-legged astronaut. Scientists were sure that because of their vagrancy way of life, it is already adapted to a severe school of survival. For weeks of preparation, Laika, along with other dogs, was kept in a tiny cage so that the animals would adapt to the cabin of the spacecraft. They passed tests in centrifuges and were for a long time near to sources of noise. April 11, 2008 in the courtyard of the Moscow Institute of Military Medicine at the Petrovsky-Razumovskaya alley, where a space experiment was prepared, a monument to Laika was opened.
7. Monument to a brown terrier, London, UK.
At the beginning of the 20th century, vivisection was widespread, and in protest Londoners erected a monument to the brown terrier, which for more than two months passed from hand to hand, from one scientist-zhividera to another. The monument reminds that 232 dogs died in the laboratories of London in 1902.