What is your perspective on animal testing?

Question

I think it is awful and should stop.

Answer 1

I agree.
And in doing research on it, the animals do not react the same way to the products as humans do.
For example, aspartame( and/or other sugar substitutes) cause cancer in laboratory animals, and they even state that on the packaging of sugar free gums, yet they still allow it to be consumed by the public!?
Since animals respond differently, what is the point? When a majority of the time, even if the animals have negative results from the testing, including death, they still mass produce these products for human use and consumption!
Another example is, Endotracheal Intubation, or the inserting of a tube into the mouth and trachea to help respiration, Is taught using kittens, small dogs, ferrets, and pigs. This causes bruising, bleeding, severe pain, and a lingering cough. Animals often die of suffocation. Yet this is used on humans today!
Not to mention it is absolutely inhumane and a form of cruelty towards animals. I have written to a number of companies protesting their use of animal testing, and some had responded and no longer use animal testing, but there are still many more that still do. If more people would not only write to companies opposing animal testing but also refusing to purchase/use their products, it can make a difference.

Answer 2

personally I don't think it's right or fair to perform it unwillingly on an animal. So the next time they want to test an animal they have to get their consent.........which isn't going to happen.

I honestly don't know enough information from either side to claim anything....but NO I hate it and don't like it.

I often hear the people who do an interview or article on testing animals will always say that the rat or the chimp has almost identical dna like humans..........or something to that effect. Implying that if the test works on them then it's safe to try on humans. Well....sorry....but "Almost Identical" just doesn't cut it in a scientific formula. I mean it's the exact opposite infact..... How pointless is that?

Answer 3

I'm totally against it, especially in the cosmetics industry. If you think it's too harsh to be applied to human skin, perhaps you should come up with a new product. Also, even if the tests come back as blinding rabbits, they may still sell the product. The tests aren't required by law and there is no real point. Another thing that really bothers me is the fact that animal testing is done on pet food, and I don't mean taste tests. The idea that countless cats and dogs are forcefed, tortured, and cut up to test on food my cat eats turns my stomach. We really do need to make efforts to find cruelty-free alternatives to our cosmetics, petfood, and cleaning products.
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Answer 4

My perspective is that testing cosmetics on animals is inexcusable. However there's no getting away from the fact that we owe most of our life-saving drugs to animal testing - without it there would be no cancer treatment, or even treatment for diabetes. Anyone who has either of these conditions has a lot to thank animal testing for.

Not all animal-testing is like the awful things you see in leaflets and animal welfare campaigns. It is possible to conduct it under the correct standards, which means the animals don't suffer pain and are kept in appropriate conditions. It isn't all stuffing them in tiny cage and force-feeding them acid you know - THIS is the practice that is inexcusable, but it isn't all like this. You just don't hear about the labs that treat animals properly because animal welfare activists aren't interested in them of course.

So my perspective is, whilst animal testing for drugs is undesirable, it remains the only method until stem-cell research is properly licensed and understood.

Chalice

Answer 5

Well if we could get more people to volunteer, or get paid for the labs to do testing on these people.
But to say one is against it, then go and buy the products (or use the medical technologies and drugs ) that have been created and on the market because of the critters being abused is a tad bit tongue in cheek for me.

It is like the people who say they do not like hunting and fishing but have no problem buying meat and fish at the grocery store.

Answer 6

Actually, Bella, we are animals. And I must say that, while I am against animal testing because it is cruel, I have a hard time with the idea that animals are as worthy as people. Don't get me wrong, I love animals... but people are PEOPLE... human beings...

Answer 7

i agree....why not test pediophiles...more accurate results...we aren't animals after all