On social media you often come across posts and screenshots showing dogs being tested on animals.

Most of these involve animal testing with toxic elements, such as cigarette smoke. The dogs wear a funnel-shaped mask through which they inhale the smoke.

Some of the photos appear disturbing, but they are not fake as they are actually experiments on animals. And beagles in particular are used more often than other dog breeds.

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New medications and chemical preparations are used in animal experiments. The images distributed on social media often show restrained dogs directly inhaling toxic fumes.

The origin of these images cannot always be clearly determined, but some can be identified. One of the most famous photos about experiments on dogs came from the journalist Mary Beith, . After animal testing for the tobacco industry became known, she worked as a worker at “Imperial Chemical Industries” in the 1970s and made the corresponding recordings there.

It was this black and white photo shown above that ended up on the front pages and attracted attention to animal testing in 1975. More about this in our article “ We suffer for your enjoyment ”.

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Animal testing: Current situation

The development of tobacco products using animal testing is prohibited under the Animal Protection Act (TierSchG). The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment writes that experiments may be carried out to answer scientific questions, but not every scientific question justifies animal testing. The Animal Protection Act stipulates for what purpose animal experiments may be carried out, which organizational and technical requirements must be met and which requirements are placed on the qualifications of the staff.

WELT also in an article from 2018 about animal testing, from which it can also be seen that animals have to inhale toxic fumes:

For experimental purposes, the animals have to inhale toxic fumes or swim in polluted water. They are infected with pathogens, given new medicines or implanted with medical devices.

The WELT article also tells us that experiments on animals with cosmetics, tobacco, tattoo inks or weapons have been banned throughout the EU for many years.

The website “Doctors Against Animal Experiments” describes that although these experiments to develop tobacco products have long been banned by law, animals are exposed to cigarette smoke ostensibly to “protect human health”. This article also describes three different locations with tests from 2018 in Germany. The case at the University of Ulm in particular came into the media , showing that there are two sides of the coin when it comes to animal testing:

The negative prize from the “Doctors Against Animal Experiments” association goes to the Ulm trauma researchers who exposed mice to tobacco smoke. At the award ceremony there is a counter-demonstration by researchers. Then there is a hard but fair discussion.

Conclusion

Yes, the photos shown are real. Beagles in particular have often been used in animal experiments. But it's not just beagles, but also other animals that are used for this. This topic is also accompanied by a debate for and against.

 


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