Animal Testing!?!
Answers: what do you think of it?
Savage, brutal cruelty and, as another answerer has already stated, unreliable.
The pain and suffering we inflict on defenceless animals in laboratories and in the use of intensive farming methods is heart-breaking.
Many people say that we humans come first and that they would rather new drugs etc were tested on animals before being used on humans. I would rather the drugs were tested on human volunteers, (I used to be one), and then we would know exactly how humans will react to the new drugs.
You may remember the recent case of drug testing on humans, in the UK, that went terribly wrong and 5 men were lucky to survive. The dosage they were given of the test drug was 500 times smaller than the doses given in the first instance to rats. The rats had shown no adverse effects at all.
Do you remember the drug thalidomide - it had been tested on animals over and over again. When it was given to pregnant women it caused horrendous abnormalities in the developing fetuses.
For anybody who doesn't know what really goes on in the laboratories, have a look at this site which gives the basics and links to other sites:-
http://www.uncaged.co.uk/
thats soo mean poor animals=(
i think... that it shouldn't happen, its cruel to the animals, what did they ever do to deserve it? NOTHING!
I've always been against it sooo much. Once you actually find out what they'll do to the animals you feel 10X worse, like you want to hunt down these people! Have you seen the Pamela Anderson's KFC documentary? Not animal testing but interesting watch.
i don't know really because firstly if your mother needed a cure for cancer and the cure had to be tested on someone else to see if it was deadly you wouldn't want your mother to be tested on it and else is there 'ANIMALS' so i don't know really,animals are just like us........xx
What is rarely mentioned is that it is simply bad science. People and animals are different. What affects a rat in one way, will affect a human in another.
Every recalled drug that ever caused birth defects or tumors or psychotic episodes was first tested on animals. It just doesn't work.
at first i really didn't care or think much of it. But yesterday I decied to look it up on youtube. I watched to videos on youtube. they made me cry. I feel so horrible and I am never buying anything that I know is tested on animals. Its so cruel. PEople can be stupid.
evil in the form of make-up
I think that animal testing is horrible if animals might die because of it why dont they test it on themselves and see if they like being tested on poor animals dont even know whats coming to them peaple should be stopped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I approve of it for testing medicines and medical procedures, but nothing else.
When the choice is between my death and the death/suffering of an animal, my death is NOT an option.
That is NOT michael h answering below.
EVIL. I've seen the evidence, its not nice. just for make up? I'd rather go without it or to a recommended make up thanks very much
I think that this is an issue that I wont discuss in polite company. Or on YA!
Horrible. Not necessary at all. Although animals have a nervous system, can suffer and feel pain and spread emotion, they are different than humans in other areas. Such as their built, therefore the testing would be inclusive. The majority of the tests done cause harm not only to the animals, but also the humans of the product used in some of the cases. Especially the testing such as vivisection, the eye/skin draize test, the animals smoking test, LD-50 test, & the emotional *test* (such as the pit of dis pear) are exceptionally horrible. And certain testing companies are worse than others such as Huntingdon Life Sciences, Covance, University of Cambridge, University of California Riverside (Britches), Columbia University (primate experiments)
you can pretend all you want, but if you go to the doctor, use medicine, wear a helmet, wear make-up, take vitamins, or live in general, YOU have benefited from animal testing.
They deserved it! Lol no jk. But did you hear of those guys who got paid $50 to get some meds tested on them? Their fingers and toes went black, then they dropped off. 4 days later, they died. Better animals than humans.
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To kc: As I said, what if they found a possible cure for cancer that will either cure or kill a guy????
I also agree with the make up thing: Body Shop can do it, so why can't everyone else?
It's unnecessary to test cosmetics, cleaning products etc on animals; it's also easy to avoid such products. Most medicines must by law be tested on animals, and sometimes it isn't possible to avoid those.
Jen D, saying it's bad science because medicines that have proved unsuccessful have been tested on animals is a poor argument; it isn't as simple as that; all medicines that are successful in saving or prolonging lives have been tested on animals too.
I wish there was another way to test medicines; they are tested on people too, those volunteer to test medicines in clinical trials after they have first been tested on animals.
If you are seriously ill or seriously injured you have no choice but to accept medicines tested on animals, whatever your feelings about it.
Edit** thumbs downs, what an intelligent response. My point was simply that medicines have to be tested on animals by law, and that it's something we don't have the option of refusing if we're seriously ill.
I'm a vegan and I owe my life to drugs that were tested on animals. They don't do vegan chemotherapy.
And listing drugs that have gone wrong on humans after being tested on animals is pretty pointless , when so many drugs that save lives were tested on animals too. We have to have more intelligent arguments against it.
It is despicable. There is no reason for it. There are alternatives such as testing on humans. Will no one hear the cry of poor defenseless animals? Sure I sell a little hay to a slaughterhouse to make a few quid, but that's different.