should animals be used in biomedical research?

Answer 1

Absolutely. One needs living tissue to experiment on, so what else do you think we should use? People? Cloned humans from stem cells?

Keep in mind that you specified BIOMEDICAL research and not, say, frivolous beauty product research. BIOlogy is the study of life. Pick a life form.

Answer 2

No. Would you want to be taken against you will into a facility where you will be tortured and probably end up being killed (unless someone liberates you which is not so likely) for a worthless things you could either have figured out on willing humyn participants or that didn't need to be found out in the first place. If you are going vegan than naturally your answer too this question is NO. It will always be no if you are actually vegan because the idea of veganism is simple don't exploit animals and work towards ending their exploitation while finding alternatives that don't exploit animals, the environment and humyns. Your future is not important compared to all the animals tortured and killed at the hands of "science" if you have to become a torturer and murderer to "further" your life than you are just going backwards. Most of the animal testing done is on useless experiments that don't provide us with any useful knowledge. Testing on already known toxins like bleach, splenda, and olestra or even pouring gasoline down someone's throat for no real sensible reason other than profit. It is testing on useless and already easily proven toxic chemicals that can be proven without any testing on anybody. Some of my favorite quotes against animal testing: Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. ~Charles R. Magel Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. ~George Bernard Shaw I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. ~Mark Twain I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil. - Dr. Charles W. Mayo ...many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Lying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year. Dr. Coleman Vernon If Animal testing was so great then why are people still dying because of cancer and aids and all these other diseases that have been so heavily tested on animals? Why is it that in the year 2011 we are still think it is ok to kill someone else to potentially 100s of years down the line maybe extend someones life a year or two if they don't die from the drugs that may or may not have worked on the animals.

Answer 3

Whenever it would be useful. I don't favor gratuitous animal testing, but if there is no other reasonable way to gather the data, then go ahead with it.

Answer 4

No i do not approve but is there an alternative