Which gives better results: animal testing or alternatives?!
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Human testing is the only type which tells us what happens to humans so it is most effective. But there are many types of research where humans are useless since we live too long and there are too many confounding influences. Genetics research is a good example. Computer models can;t indicate the influence of a food or other environmental influence on genes, so short lived animals like rodents make the best models. However it still doesn't indicate what will happen in humans, and most chemicals aren't tested anyway.
vegan biologist
Researchers need and use all those options. No new medicine goes on the market without human trials. But before they give it to humans, they do computer programs and animal testing (as needed). Testing on animals is expensive. The animals cost, feeding them costs, maintaining their environment costs, meeting all the government requirements to test on animals costs. Nobody tests on animals because it's fun. It's a serious program that requires lots of paperwork and $$$$.
Animal testing actually delayed the polio vaccination. Ethics aside, testing a human borne disease on an animal will never bring the same results as testing it on a human cell would. Many doctors agree that animal testing will never hold a bearing over how they diagnose and treat their patients.
An animals body does not compare to a human beings, plain and simple. Animal testing may have produced many results, but alternative testing has produced many RELIABLE results.
Artificial skin exists now, usually used in stem cell research and research on skin diseases
Some people have proposed the idea of using prison inmates to test stuff on. Not forcefully of course, but voluntarily. They would get paid, which would go to help their families & stuff. That's another ethical issue of its own, but if it's 100% voluntary, I see no problem with it
i dont know
but its been proventhat testing on animals doesnt always work out wellfor humans
when they tested smokingon animals, rabbits i think, they thought it was ok, because rabbits have some kinda natural defense to it
we dont
thats the problem, using animals you get results , for animals, not humans
seems to make more logical sence that you test human products on humans for actual results
human tissue and synthetics.
there is this great website explaining it if you type in no animal testing into google.