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  • people say mice and rats destroy food enough to feed 2 million people. but if they didn't, does that mean all that food would go to the starving people and kids in africa? or help a fat man in america gain ten more pounds? yes they carry diseases, yes they eat food, and yes, there are alot of them. but us, we eat more food, we destroy forests, we cause wars and kill our own, and we carry the disease of greed and hate. i think the world would be better without us than without mice and rats.

  • I CAREEEEEEEEEeee

  • I don't like to say it- but rats don't form lasting bonds; i had a pet rat and she was a tart! (like all rats)

    I'm glad the UK treat animals better than the US :(

  • i have 2 pet rats they have snuggled and licked my face daily for 3 years and yes i do think that USA is total bull shit even though i live here lmao

  • i care! i have got 2 rats and they are my world ! rats and mice are the cutest things ever!

    Imagine if you got stuck in that sticky tape stuff or killed for NO reason!

    What they do is there life! just like we have lives!

  • Who cares?

    I CARE!!!

  • it depends what u mean by "care". keeping one or two as pets are fine, but what if 2 becomes 4 and 4 becomes eight? dont forget mice are the most sexually active animal on earth. they will invade farms and kill crops sometimes the numbers are so extreme dat they go after the animals. like all animals it's best to keep them alive and un-endangered (idk if dats a word or not), but once the numbers spread, you'll be sorry, so once again, define "care"

  • I dont think you people understand that modern medicine has saved literally billions of lives

  • i have 2 mice and i care

  • i care

  • me to

    

  • CYS CRYS CRYS CRYS I WAAAANNNNNA HELP!!

  • don't be a youtube troll for me saying this -_- but so many of the medicine we have today is because of successful experiments done on rats. if your family was dying i'm sure you'd have no problem killing all the rats in the world to find a cure. although i don't agree with animals suffering, labs are required to give "painkillers" if the test does not test for pain and better them than your children. again, don't hate. :)

  • @sherryershadi Agreed. We would not have the medicine today we have now if we didnt test on rats. Understand that people dont want to have it happen but its life

  • @tehvirusRAP3R That does not mean that these "labs" have to starve and make these animals live in tiny ass jail cells! If they are doing us such a favor the least we could do is give them anestetics before we cut them open and let them live in bigger cages than that(maybe in small communitys). All these companies care about is profit and the animals are paying the price.

  • I once had a rat named Biff who died 5 years ago and I still find myself waking up crying over it. He was my best friend, someday when I die I know I will see him again in heaven, for he was a good pet, a friend. :,)

  • witohout  rats, medicine woldnt be succesfull

  • i dont use modern shots or medicine and i m never ill. science has failed our mother earth

  • This is sick. :'(

  • I want to throw up.

  • And what exactly were they doing when they held the white rat upside down - using a needle to drain blood out of it's eye?!? Awful!

  • I care, and I believe that while the animals are needed for research, they should be cared for far better and not treated cruelly if it can in any way be prevented. Rats, and to a lesser extent mice, are intelligent, sensitive creatures that deserve more respect, even wild ones They never intentionally infect us with disease (that comes from our waste) and are only trying to survive.

  • why the mice?

  • is there anything wrong with pet rats?

  • There needs to be limits....

    Some limits...

    And housing rules for them...

  • I gave peta 50 bucks

  • I CARE!

  • 127 people are monsters

  • THIS IS HORRIBLE!

  • i don't mean to sound like an unsympathetic person. But if that rat/mice had lived what would it do? It would live either in some house. Which probably will be killed either way with some other animal. Or live in the wild which again killed by an animal or killed by some disease. So i'd say the rat might as well die testing medicine compared to just dying by whatever reason. and MDFields2005 is right btw.

  • This was so hard for me to watch, 'cos I breed pet rats and I love, love, love, love them, and I could NEVER be like those people. I wouldn't even call them "people". I'd have to call them "MONSTERS", 'cos that's what they are. :(

  • It is illegal to test anything on humans, even willing people. My family has kept rats for many, many years and I love rats, they're the cutest animal ever.

    You people are letting your emotions run against reason, you're thinking with your heart and not your brain. The only reason why you are still alive is testing on rats and mice, antibiotics are tested on rats and mice, the miracle cure that has saved billions of people. Think with your head.

  • You say the medical testing is necessarily but testing on animals won't tell us how humans will react. If a certain medication doesn't hurt animals, it doesn't mean it won't hurt humans. Plus, most of the testing they do is cruel and stupid. Why do we need to know how poisonous chemicals will affect animals? Of course it's going to kill them!

  • @torikatt Rats and mice are VERY genetically similar to people, so what happens to a mouse we can be fairly certain will happen to a person. That Flu shot that you took/will take? Tested on a mouse. Penicillin? Rats. Tylenol? Mice. As I said, mice and humans are very genetically similar, so testing on a mammal like mice is federally required before human testing can begin. Like MDFields said, better a mouse than a person.

  • Even though I have a pet snake that readily feeds on "live" rats and mice because he won't take frozen/thawed I still care about these animals as i'm hoping to own 2 rats and 2 mice someday as pets (the lucky ones!) I believe me I do feel bad about doing it but i've always wanted a snake and finally got it, my next pet will be a lizard or some rats and mice and btw could someone tell me what species of mice were those at 0:12 thanks appreciate it! let's save these intelligent animals!

  • @rathelper Seems like we're the only ones buddy...

  • @AKArainkit No, you're not the only ones.

  • What I find funny is that no one's caught on yet. When they say on a product's commercial that is might cause vomiting, blotting or death, that means that happened to a human. What I also find funny is why do we test things on animals. It would be better on a human because that is what it will be used for. We shouldn't test a new medicine on a rat because the rat will, undoubting, react to it differently than a human.

  • Omg this just made me cry :'(

  • I owned a pet rat for about a year, he had a bright orange tail, loved cookies and being held--rats and mice are the same as any rodent, as any mammal, they are social and playful, they deserve more respect.

  • Odd, how activists and guilt trippers condone testing on humans as an alternative. Surely that's just as callous as what they protest against.

  • If you love Mice and Rats you shouldn't use any modern shots or medicine. Almost all new medical procedures are tested on animals and I am glad to say and not on 3rd world country children. If you are using modern medicine you are condoning the research that is done on these animals. Since i value a human life over a animals i say let the testing continue. Sad but true.

  • @MDFields2005 "Since i value a human life over a animals i say let the testing continue. "

    First of all,You should value life in general.

    Secondly,You should know that to me you're less important than a rat,cheers and die with cancer,then you'll see what these animals suffer.

    Ps: Peta ain't saying to stop the searches or do it to 3º world kids but to stop the way they treat the animals and how they let them DIE,no pain killers? no anesthesia? torture? I SAY NO TO THAT,I will die,but proud!

  • @MDFields2005 And if they're tested on rodents how reliable could those results possibly be? How much are you like a mouse? Even if you think animal abuse is the only way to test human medicine, they're not just pointing out that medical research is bad, so is cosmetics research and such.

  • @VeggieChickFTW Actually its proven to be reliable, but then it has to be tested on humans, though I think

    they should treat the rats better but keep researching

  • @MDFields2005 Testing doesn't work! Rats and mice are biologically different to us, just as every species is. Medicines that cause side effects in animals may not cause side effects in humans. Medicines that don't cause side effects in animals may still cause side effects in humans. Medicines that have the potential to work may have been discarded based on an adverse effect on an animal. It's a highly flawed system and there are many beneficial alternatives that do not involve animal cruelty.

  • @MDFields2005 We condone it because it is being done this way. Science needs to make a shift so that we no longer see the prevention of human suffering as an excuse to make other animals suffer just because they're not humans.

  • @MDFields2005 I like to stay healthy and not pass on diseases THANK YOU. Oh, and God gave us animals for a reason, they aren't people, I love them, but there is no use going all mehhh, over them. -.-

  • @MDFields2005 Some people just need these Medicines, But there are just no other ways to test Medicines, and nobody really cares about animals. Like the ygrab a mice by the tail, I WOULD NEVER GRAB MY HAMSTER HARRY BY THE TAIL! In some Points you are so right But science is just important.

  • sooo its better that a human dies than a rat? na not really.. im glad they are using rats, so we dont react on the products

  • @MagicAssProductions

    That makes no sense. Why would you test products on human if it has negative side effects? We wouldn't be making progress otherwise. You don't take into consideration the fact that everyday items you use like over the counter medicine was tested on animals, yet surel you use them?

  • no animal deserve to get treated like this.

    the products are for humans, right?

    animals are different as us, why do not testing on humans?

    we have so many bad humans. so many murder ... why do not taking them for testings? why animals who are totally different as us?

  • Didn't mice and rats carry the fleas that carried Black Plague that killed almost all of Europe?

  • ok, why not test the damn products on patiens with transmitted diseases... since they are dangerous to all the healthy population... ow i forgot... humans are superior than animals, right? cuz... let me think... we have higher IQ and we are so smart that we create wars, pollute the earth, destroy fauna and flora while bragging how fucking smart we are.. right?

  • Hey everyone I have a few mouse videos on my channel and it would be cool if I could have some feed back! (:

    Sushi+Noodles=my mice-3

  • Rats are such beautiful and intelligent creatures.

    They do not deserve this shit.

  • i care!!!!

  • Peta is right but they fail to mention that without the expirementing 45 percent of human homes would be infested by rats roaches and mice and insects, i love animals but rats and mice are already to damn overpopulated, i would like to save a few, but that many would cause infestations.

  • Hey I'm more then happy to let the mice and rats live just as long as they don't decide to live in my house

  • :( i love rats! they are beautiful! they have funny noses !

  • More like people should be experimenting on humans instead..

  • @MagicAssProductions Hitler and the SS tried that once..............

  • I CARE!!!!

  • Of course PETA neglects to mention anything of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and all the extra training for the humane treatment of lab animals that researchers must undergo before they're even allowed to work with lab animals. Or the fact that most laboratory rodents are kept in tightly-regulated humane living conditions that surpass the living standards of the average household pet.

  • so you want to tell me that we should do experiments on humans ? :) it's human race you idiots we can't let people die because we care about mice ! we need medication and food . other stuff like fashion or beauty products are the ones you should talk about !

  • I CARE !

  • I DO >:(

  • peta wants everything to look so cute and cuddilly, mice and rats are dirty and carry diseases

  • @ilikedovehunting humans are dirty and carry diseases your mom and dad are dirty and carry diseases(aids other stds etc) i think we should wipe off the human race and fix the planet

  • @ilikedovehunting You talking as if humans can't carry diseases? 

  • @ilikedovehunting You're*

  • @ilikedovehunting so? anything can carry a disease. it is not there fault they live in sewers, or ally ways or anyplace like that. its not like they have homes like us, go to the docter regularly like use, or have medicene like us!

  • i care

  • I love rats and mice! They are great animals that deserve a life better than that!

    Maybe humans will die but so will the rats and mice if this isn't stopped and their live are just as valuable as ours. We are all animals.(I don't mean that in any offensive way)

  • i love rats and mice!!! they are my favorite animals.

    testing them on any kid of crap is wrong... yes humans will die but you know what we are animals too just like them

    I CARE

  • @ssuperslugful I CARE ! too!

  • I CARE!

  • i have 23 pet rats in my home (25, but 2 died.)

    i like rats more than peta

  • look, if it's not tested in mice, it will be in humans or other animals

  • @azrodrigues

    So why do you think that those mice should bear that kind of tests?

    ARE THEIR SOULS INFERIOR THEN THE OTHER SPECIES?HUH?

  • @224909666 Souls? Your kidding right? We're just matter.

  • i would buy save traps and let them go back into the wild!!!

  • @rznbrannn Alright then you can be the first to get tested on potentially harmful chemicals. Would you like that? Or would you rather have a lab rat take it?

  • Here, I'll give you guys a list of the diseases rats and mice carry. Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Lassa Fever, Leptospirosis, Lymphocytic Chorio-meningitis (LCM),Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever,Plague, Rat-Bite Fever, Salmonellosis,South American Arenaviruses and Tularemia. Who cares about that?

  • @JRWPr0ductions We get all sorts of diseases too, ya know! -.-

    Cancer, Swine flu, colds, fevers, all that crap.

  • I always loved mice and rats

  • i nearly cried at the sight of this

  • I would rather they test mice and rats over cats or dogs or any other animal.

  • @NobyNobyBoyKid Why?

  • No one should suffer...for one Animal testing is not valid, it is just a FACT...Mice/Rats are NOT little men.

    Many HUMANS have suffered and DIED because of Animal Testings poor results.

  • I wish we could have test subject robots so we don't have to worry about the poor animals!

  • I used to have 2 wonderful and amazing pet rats, and i miss them dearly. Though it makes me cry what rats are used for, in a way, i thank them for that. I know they didn't choose it, but without them, i guess lots of lives have been saved....

  • pet rats are absolutely adorable. 

  • who cares, I care :)

  • Who cares that rats and mice spread deadly diseases that could kill all of you like the black plauge which was transported by none other than the rat you try to "protect" I think PETA ads are way to over the top

  • @thetocool338

    Lol try again, the fleas of the time spread the plague. Just as many dogs, cats, and HUMANS carried those fleas.

  • @ChelseaReee

    100% Right ....BTW people who think rats are dirty (even wild ones) must be talking out their asses, because it is a FACT that they are clean...and also tidy den keepers!

    (* I have 5 rats at the momment...have owned over 30...WAY cleaner then both Dogs AND cats....)

  • @Novasmom08

    I do not have a problem with rats being kept as pets as long as they are the ones that are sold at pet stores etc. Other then that, kill em.

  • @thetocool338 Wow, you are so thick. That is one of the biggest superstitions in the Animal Kingdom. And also tame rats are cleaner than dogs. I should know as i have three. And as for garbage/sewer rats, WHAT ELSE ARE THEY GOING TO DO? WHERE ELSE ARE THEY GOING TO LIVE? We'll stand there and complain but it's our fault that they're there anyway so don't give me or anyone else the "Oh, rats are so dirty, they spread diseases!" Because they don't! You're just one of the idiots that believe that.

  • They should test it on themselves.

  • I love Rats and Mice. I understand that perhaps in some medical situations testing may be considered necessary but honestly I don't believe that any random human is automatically more important or significant than any random lab Rat or Mouse simply by virtue of it being a human. I love my Siamese Cat, Andrew, & only three people on Earth out rank him as far as I am concerned: Mom, Dad & Sister. They could experiment on violent criminals & I would be A okay with it. Some people shouldn't count!

  • @rose4490 GREAT IDEA! Test the murderers and criminals rather than inoccent creatures.

  • MY FAT CAT :P

  • i care.

  • WHO CARES? WELL I DO!

  • these idiot medics must make experiments on themselves

  • murderers and horrible people should be experimented on instead of inesent animals

  • should use some evil humans to do experiments...

  • i do i have pet rats

    

  • I adore all animals and I abhor all kinds of animal cruelty!! I wish I could love and protect 'em all!!

  • i care a lot lot is so mean to do that!!

  • so im sure you all would rather have millions of people become sick and dying because we can't test our medicine before we sell it

  • I'm may against somethings when it come to these fur balls, but hardly none of them would be against buying a rat trap if one got in their house! People can say how cute and cuddling these rodents are all they want, but they won't feel that way if one is crawling across the dinner table! lol

  • @snooky396 Actually we always use humane traps in our garage when their is a rodent and set it free outside. It feels a lot better to set the animal free and watch it run away than to see a dead little body!

  • @snooky396 Actually, my basement is full of mice, and we use humane traps where we can collect them and set them free in the nearby park. We get really excited when we see them around/catch one because they're adorable little fluff balls with big ears and eyes. They do no harm except for pooping on boxes and eating the crumbs left around. I also have owned about 5 rats in my life, and they are extremely intelligent and friendly creatures. Just because you hate them, doesn't mean everyone does.

  • Most of those rats are bred in closed environments, and don't pose any threat to the remaining population. Would you prefer to have hundreds and hundreds of people killed by disease when there's the chance to save them with animal testing? Plants also feel external stimuli, and know when they're being attacked, even though they can't express it. Why do you guys at PETA eat them? This renders your argument about suffering a bit pointless. We have to eat and survive. If we want animals, so be it.

  • poor mice =( 

  • how can anyone do this to so cute animal!! i wouldnt be able to hurt them.

  • how can anyone do this to so cute animals :> i wish i could adopt them all and shoot anyone trying to steal them from me >:-/

  • Give 'em tranquilisers

  • I am 100% against the way that they do it. These animals have a soul, they have feelings, they feel pain. Just because they can't tell you it hurts doesn't mean that it's okay. If they find a way to test on animals without hurting them or causing any pain then that's okay with me. But as of now I am against animal testing. God gave you a very smart mind, He gave you intelligence. And you go and hurt other creatures with the intelligence? What they do to animal these days in unacceptable.

  • @MagicAssProductions its dangerous to test it on humans obviously, would you want to test medicines that cure diseases on babys? onbviously not. We can however test it on less important animals, and imo on murders and the like.

  • I'm glad my Charlie is safe. Too bad I can't give them all a good home.

  • who cares?

    i dont

    its bettering the human race so chill out hippies

  • @akr422809 Part of being a better human is learning compassion and respect, not to mention decency. 

  • Lol if scientists wasn't doing this they wouldnt be so much medicine and cures in this world

  • who the fuck cares about rats,,they carey germs and hiv 

  • @seyness1 ME! and a lot of other people! And not all rat! the same with humans!

  • lol i lold when that 1 got put in that guillotine thing

  • I hate the way you people tell us why animals shouldn´t be killed like that -

    "they are `cute´", "it´s cruel", "they also have feelings" blablabla...

    There are enough people worldwide who constantly suffer from their pain, far worse than cows & pigs have.

    You never get into the idea of helping or at least mentioning these poor people, yet you´re still concerned on a single rat being tortured in laboratories.

    pathetic....

  • For those 86 people who dislike this videos are probably cats (aka pussies)

  • gay rats are dumb and stupid

  • @TheBrodylax3 Y tu retrasado

  • @NuriaSpain07 jajajaj xD no creo k t entienda xD

  • Does anybody have a good alternative suggestion to what these labs can test Cancer cures on instead of mice?

  • @TheSkinandSteel Humans! No animal deserves death! They're helpless!

    We Are Their Voice(WATV) is an organisation of mine.

    Please follow me on Twitter - @HearTheirCries

    Thanks

  • who cares? i dont

  • @snakelord12 IKR!!! They could be the best small animal pet I've ever seen. They are amazing.

  • @snakelord12 Evil!

  • hmm lets see number of rats>number of humans

  • Who Cares if they give you Rabies?

  • I support rat and mouse testing, but only for medical procedures that will save millions of human lives. Surely some mouse lives spent is better than millions of human lives wasted? Think of it as Martyrdom. (No, not the kind where you drop a grenade when you die, but I suppose that would shock some lab workers.)

    But the line is crossed with beauty and cosmetic products. Killing rats and mice to look good is unreasonable. PETA need to start looking on both sides of the story though.

  • @iElite6809 All testing is wrong,animals shouldn't have to suffer for ower own reasons.People should test on people,but of course people are to selfish.People dont want to be called murderers for working on humans who's crys we can understand.We feel empathy and simpathy for ower own kind because we can understand and interact with one another.Rats and mice we can't understand their pleas for mercy,so we dont simpathize them and we torture them for ower own sake.once again fuck people:/

  • @Happyemo246 our* "ower" is not a word. Sympathy* and use a single space following all punctuation. You're doing well, just some tips.

  • @Happyemo246

    But we can understand their pleas for mercy. We can understand if a rat cries out in pain, can you? We don't 'torture' them either, that's what Peta would want you to believe though.

  • @iElite6809 I disagree. Humans are evil. We all are. If you had to choose between your own life or your pet's? Would you choose your pet's instead? I would hope not. That poor animal has done nothing wrong. Maybe bitten a couple of people but it was most probably in self defense.

    All those against animal cruelty please follow me on Twitter. @HearTheirCries

    Thanks.

  • @iElite6809 Nazis conducted experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Snd you're not better than them, if you think that it's okay to kill somebody for other profit. You're a fascist.

  • @dighell i agree

  • @iElite6809 I support animal research too...there's no other way to improve our knowledge and our technology for understandig and tryng to cure so many illness before testing the drugs you and your family will use in any moment. There are some many fails, but we can always improve this painful but necesary topic.

  • @iElite6809 I looove you're points. It's sad how arguing with PETA is like trying to argue with a religious fanatic. People never question why, nor do they have an open mind.

  • @iElite6809 So what about the rats lives? So they should be forced into helping us when all we do is hurt them. They are lives, human or not. Regardless of what they are they shouldn't be subjected to this, even more when they aren't benefiting in any way or form

  • @iElite6809 I agree. Some animal testing is necessary for saving humans and other animals alike. Peta should look into making the NECESSARY tests more humane and comfortable for the animals, and the UNNECESSARY tests banned. Or at least exposed, until the company changes of it's own accord due to uproar.

    What are we supposed to do: test it on humans first? I agree the mice and rats have a value in their life, but would you rather have a person die? Have THEIR blood on your hands?

  • @DragonBunni ok... just cuz to you a mouse's life doesn't seem worthy it doesn't mean it has no value to the mouse itself. your own life might seem unworthy to other human being, simply cuz they have more money, power, or they are more famous etc.. does that gives them the right to take it away from you? and yes.. once again don' tell me humans are more important than animals... open your eyes and see what we have done to the earth.. and we don't even care

  • There is a special place in hell for lab workers who torture these sweet rodents. There is unfortunate but necessary, and then there is evil and inhumane. It's time they drew a line.

  • PETA...I really support the fact that your charity is trying to help animals, but all i can think of whilst watching this video is the camera man who is just filming this...

  • give them pills at least, id rather them be tripping balls during a test at least. i honestly never cared but danm!

  • 1. STOP TESTING obviously deadly things on rats and mice.

    2. STOP FEEDING reptiles with rats and mice (and bunnies, and bats, and guinea pigs, normal pigs, dogs or with any alive animals)

    3.STOP killing them with no sense.

    I care about them. They are perfect pets and very intelligent animals.

  • mice and rats increase their number very very much and how much you try to kill them they cant be vanished, kill them all, they wont be vanished, they risk our lives because they carry diseases and infect our food we eat, I hate mice and rats

  • i care i love animals but i hate the people who post that its good to do this to them

  • i have a pet mouse :D

  • Wtf related video "Eating rats" O.o

  • Hey PeTA, if you don't like animal testing, why don't YOU volunteer to have shit injected in you!? Seriously you assholes, where does the line of inconvenience draw?

  • @GrandmaTuffits The point is that everything wants to live, stupid. Just because you want to live doesn't mean I'm next on the list to be tested on. In fact, why don't you volunteer if you like humanity so much? Why not? Because you're nothing but a coward.

  • @GrandmaTuffits Cause its illegal!

  • I like rats. I've had pet rats, loved them and cried when they died. And I support the use of lab rats. They are very expendable and make great experimentation subjects and educationial tools.

  • q terrible

  • Question time--peta says don't support March of Dimes cause they use mice and rats in their medical research. My niece was born two and half months early, if not for the research and medical advances by juse of these mice and rats my niece,along with many other premature babies, not be here today. My question to everyone---Is the life of a rat or mouse more important than that of all the babies March of Dimes has helped????

  • Stuart??

    

  • Mice are sweet... at least if they're going through hardships they should be administered pain killers so they may not endure the excruciation

  • Thats kinda bad that rats and such have to go through that, yet if it aint rats then its people, and nobody wants to be part of a experiment that would kill them. Life isn't fair.

  • obviously PETA wasn't around when rats caused the black plague. The reason why science experiments are done on rats because the results will be useful for human when it comes to medical discoveries.

  • You're right Who cares I certainty don't!

  • What darling little creatures. Thank you, PETA, for speaking up for all animals, big and small!

  • Rats search landmines, dying for our health, get terapy animals and they are the sliest und loyaliest pets I've ever had!

    WHY everybody hate them??! I couldn't understand...

  • i have a rat and had mice they were the best pet i ever have!

  • Don't you love that all the people who are saying how disgusting the mice and rats in this video are cannot use proper written English?

    I've had pet rodents for the past 30 years, and they are intelligent, loving, affectionate, and make MUCH better parents than most people.

    How can anyone watch pieces of an animal being cut off, no matter what your personal opinion of the animal, and say "I don't care?" By the way, rats didn't cause the black plague. The fleas they had carried the disease.

  • I use to save mice from the glue traps @ my school all the time. I think mice r so cute, rats....not so much.