What do you think of animal testing?

Question

for medical purposes.

Answer 1

Completely UN-necessary. I am an advocate against it. Many of my charity dollars and much of my free time is spent fighting this.  Buy from/Support companies that Do Not test on animals if you want to make a difference.

Answer 2

A necessary evil until computer simulations and cell cultures can take their place.

For anyone that does not think it is necessary.  Ask yourself.

1. Would you be alive without modern medicine?  Include vaccines and antibiotics.  

2. Would you refuse treatment and die because it was developed with animal testing? Basically every drug and procedure developed in the last century is.

Answer 3

I am completely against animal testing for frivolous and unnecessary items like cosmetics, or for meaningless and pointless experiments.

Genuine medical research is a different and more difficult issue, and either saying that you are completely against it or that you wouldn't accept drugs tested on animals is to ignore a number of important issues.

If you were seriously, life-threateningly ill, would the fact that procedures and drugs you would need for treatment had almost certainly been tested on animals stop you from accepting them?

I am vegan, and I would probably not be alive today if I  not for drugs  and procedures that had, by law,been tested on animals. People can call me a hypocrite if they like (although they have misunderstood the meaning of the word if they do), but I don't believe anyone who says that if it were them, or their spouse or parent or child, they would take death rather than accept medical procedures which had been tested on animals.

I wish medicines weren't tested on animals. But I'm willing to bet that anyone who says they'd never take such drugs has never been seriously ill or involved in a serious accident. In other words have never been in a life or death situation.

Being vegan is not about being a martyr; it's about doing all you can and the best you can to minimise your contribution to animal suffering and exploitation. Refusing drugs when your life is in danger is psychotic, not vegan.

I'm vegan and I didn't hesitate to accept whatever drugs were on offer after I was diagnosed with cancer. Yes, vegans do get it, it's a random disease whose causes are for the most part unknown. I wish medicines weren't tested on animals, but I would do the same tomorrow if I had a recurrence.

I value human life way, way over animal life, and much as I wish there were I'm not convinced that there are credible and reliable alternative ways to test many drugs and procedures. Sometimes we have to consider the lesser of two evils.

Incidentally not all medical research is done on animals.A doctor who contributes to the YA Cancer forum wrote about  people with end stage cancer who volunteer for phase one trials of new drugs. Phase one means  the toxicity, efficacy, or the correct dosage for humans is not known. But people sign consent forms because they know that even though it may well not help them, it may be a help to someone else later on.

A moving and humbling example of the heroism and unselfishness of which humans are capable

Answer 4

Well it doesnt matter if its the dirtiest animal in the world they are taking animals like rats monkeys dogs cats! thats outrageous thier just like us thats why you see all these defensive animals because everybody takes control and its heart breaking but animals have feelings. They can probably feel thier death because the medicine went wrong what i say thay should use thier computerized machines. They dont test on humans because they can talk and sue no organism should be treated in this manor thats why the world is like this now.      But humans actuallt have a choice to be tested animals dont! so thats why it isnt fair, they'll break thier necks trying to get an animal to test!            

                                                     -in my opinion

Answer 5

I think it's cruel, wasteful, and unreliable.

Animal experimentation is a scientifically invalid practice because data from animal studies can't be reliably applied to humans. Animals and humans differ in a number of significant ways -- anatomically, genetically, immunologically, physiologically and histologically. This makes animals inaccurate models for studying human disease. Animal experiments sidetrack medical progress and waste time, talent, and resources.

Testing 1, 2, 3

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cOApHfEEM5s

Answer 6

would u rather be testing it instead?

Answer 7

Honestly it makes me sad, any type of animal testing is wrong!

Answer 8

I think it is great it help's PEOPLE who are sick nough said

Answer 9

if the animal being tested is human, than it's ok otherwise it's wrong. I say this only because humans volunteer for medical studies all the time! and there are so many other ways to test medicines other than using any animal.

Answer 10

Unfortunately right now it seems to be the best way to find cures for various diseases. We are the higher intelligence so we need to find every way we can to keep the populace healthy. Until we "do" I think we almost have to do testing 'till we find a better way......

Answer 11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk_fjc5g8...

Answer 12

well, if someone was bigger than you and caged you and tested on you, - would you like it? - how would you feel?

Exactly!