If animal testing and experiments can help you..?

Question

will you agree to it? Do you think that the advances in medicine and the eradication of so many diseases to date is a result of the success in laboratory animal testing?

I cannot even look at this picture without a heavy heart and a sinking feeling. Can you?

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=qrg65w&s=4

Answer 1

it is difficult to look at that picture without a heavy heart and

a sinking feeling, i agree with you on that.

But if animal testing and experiments can result in advances

in medicine then i feel it is worth it.

Answer 2

I think that animals are worth less than humans, so if a little bit(or a lot) of animal suffering helps humans out, I'm all for it. If you don't agree with my first claim - would you save a dog or a baby from a burning building?

Answer 3

thats got to be photoshop

Answer 4

not going to look at the image as i wouldn't want a heavy heart on a Saturday evening,so I'll just say that i eat animals so i don't have a problem with animal testing for whatever purpose.

Answer 5

I believe there is value in it to an extent. I have a friend that her job is basically injecting chimps with the aids virus and studying the effects. As heartbreaking as it is, im not sure there are many other ways to solve the aids dilemma. On the other hand, companies such as proctor and gamble and gillette have tested their products on animals in the past...and I feel that it was completely unneccessary...The latter was putting shaving cream and other products in the eyes of rabbits and making them go blind. If youre old enough to use shaving cream, you should be smart enough to know it doesnt belong in your eyes.

Its a tough issue to draw the line on.

Answer 6

I am 100% against animal testing. It is not only barbaric, it is unscientific - animals react differently to humans to many substances, rendering many tests pointless. For example, a contraceptive called Tamoxifen was once developed which was tested on rats. It worked as intended, and was given to humans. However, it had the opposite effect on women, actually increasing their fertility! There are many other examples, some of which had much more harmful consequences. I don't know if you remember it, but a couple of years ago a drug called TGN1412 was tested on some human volunteers, and very nearly killed them - they were on life support for some time, and were left with permanent health problems. Prior to being given to these people, this drug had already been tested on monkeys at a dose 500 times stronger than that which was given to the humans, without causing the monkeys any ill effects. Aspirin, helpful to humans, causes birth defects in cats. Penicillin kills guinea pigs. 6-azauridine, a cancer drug which can be used in humans for long periods, will kill dogs in a few days in even small doses. The list goes on.

I realize that some people feel that animal testing is necessary and that the end justifies the means - these people are entitled to their opinion, but I do not share it, personally. I don't think a human's life should be considered more important than a dog's or a rat's or a monkey's - animals have just as much right to live as we do, and the right to live that life free of pain and misery. As noted philosopher Jeremy Bentham put it, the central question is not "Can they reason?" nor "Can they talk?", but "Can they suffer?" And obviously they can. Our greater intelligence gives us a responsibility to protect other species, not the right to use and abuse them for our own ends.

Answer 7

No. I think its vile. I rank animals as having equal right to people to be here. I wish that there were more animal rights extremists who would plant explosives in vivisectors homes, kidnap and shoot their family members, and torture the vivisectors themselves. It wouldnt matter if the person who worked for the company was a receptionist - still guilty by association and by having no conscience.

Answer 8

well, I will not agree to animal testing because animals should have a right to live and be happy. But it will advance medicine and medical technology advances as well. But It Is Still Bad