Why is animal testing unreliable?

Question

can you give me some good facts please?

I'm trying to write a persuasive speech :]

thanks to everyone who answers!

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how is unreliable at times?

I'm writing the cons for animal testing

Answer 1

To see how unreliable animal testing is just read up about thalidomide...I used to go to school with a lad who only had stumps for arms because of this drug...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2031459.st...

Oohhh...a thumbs down for telling the truth that somebody cannot face...

Answer 2

animal cruelty if the animal gets hurt

Answer 3

Testing animals is a waste of time...they just can't come to terms with the concept of driving a motor vehicle...

Answer 4

Simple.

1. Animals don't react in the same way as humans to various drugs and diseases including aspirin and HIV/AIDS.

2. Quote from the European Medicines Agency (page 2 of the pdf provided below):

"No laboratory species provides an ideal model for human metabolism"

I'm not saying that we should not test new medicines or make medical advances, but we are technologically reaching the point where we can keep a few cells of human tissue alive in a petri dish, which would be suitable for testing in most cases.

Or perhaps mothers could donate tissue from aborted foetuses to medical research.

Testing on animals may have been right in the past, but can we not do better now?

Answer 5

I hate to think of animals being used in testing cosmetics especially.

Cosmetics are not in the name of a life and death situation are they.

I once saw rabbits having shampoo products put into their eyes just to see if they became inflamed. All this, in my opinion is in the name of money and profit making.

When animals are used for drugs to help the human race, I still hate the fact they are made to suffer. The animals are given Cancer and watched to see how it develops, then the scientists use this that and the other to stem the disease.

I don't know. I expect these experiments have helped with medicine. It seems a horrible way to make discoveries and cures.

It has to be unreliable in part because they make mistakes before they find a reliable cure. (they being the scientists)

Answer 6

it is reliable

Answer 7

I've been thinking about this for a long time too. Medicines, cosmetics and other such things  which are made for us humans are tested on animals first. Why? What for? I mean are the medicines made for cats and dogs tested on us first?

Is that how it is? Then maybe we should to the veterinarians and the other animals to human doctors? Weird isn't it?

Answer 8

OK here is a good example for you.

When they were testing morphine they trialled it on cats. When morphine is given to humans it calms them and stops the pain. When given to cats it sends them crazy they climb the walls and basically can't stop moving. Its known as Morphine Mania.

Also its basically torture testing on animals, there is some very interesting research done with animal research.

Mars recently funded a deadly experiment on rats to determine the effects of chocolate ingredients on their blood vessels. Experimenters force-fed the rats by shoving plastic tubes down their throats and then cut open the rats' legs to expose an artery, which was clamped shut to block blood flow. After the experiment, the animals were killed. Mars has also funded cruel experiments in which mice were fed a candy ingredient and forced to swim in a pool of a water mixed with white paint. The mice had to find a hidden platform to avoid drowning, only to be killed and dissected later on. In yet another experiment supported by Mars, rats were fed cocoa and anesthetized with carbon dioxide so that their blood could be collected by injecting a needle directly into their hearts, which can lead to internal bleeding and other deadly complications.

(what the h**l is this "research" going to prove??)

Answer 9

Animal testing is reliable.  You won't be able to show it isn't without lying.  For the record, any "facts" from PETA fall under the category of lies.  They have a political agenda to push.  You wouldn't believe the NRA if they said guns were safe, and you shouldn't believe PETA when they say animal testing is unreliable.  When it comes to medical tests, animal testing is the best way to gather information about medicines and new procedures without risking human lives.

I've worked in a laboratory that was using test animals at the time.  Scientists treat their test animals with more care and respect than most people give their pets.  I'm sure that there are some exceptions but then there always are, even among pet owners.

I would agree however that there is no need to test cosmetics on animals.  We should be able to find people who would allow the same tests to be done on them.

Answer 10

It's TRUE, - according to the "BOFFINS", anyway, - that the HUMAN "DNA" string, is closely comparable to that of APES, but, - like apes, - all human beings react, in different WAYS, to different things.

Therefore, "BLANKET" results, make the "TESTING", - on ANIMALS, - of products, for "USE", by HUMANS, - extremely unreliable, - because, - WE ARE DIFFERENT, from animals!