What are your views on animal testing?

Question

I want to know people views on animal testing think it's wrong but i want 2 see wot other people think

Answer 1

Completely AGAINST IT.... Not just for our non-human friends, but for US as well. Contrary to popular belief, and the BS that is constantly spoon fed to us by the powers that be, there is absolutely NO WAY of knowing whether or not ANY TYPE OF PRODUCT is safe for human use by testing on species that are not genetically exactly the same as humans. The powers that be KNOW THIS, hence clinical trials for example. There have been more failures due to animal testing that there have been successes. It's way past time to move beyond this worthlessness.

SAY NO TO ANIMAL TESTING!


To add: It is completely irrelevant whether or not a vegan would refuse anything involving animal testing in order to save his/her own life. Firstly, there is no way to completely avoid supporting animal usage. Merely participating in the economy is supporting animal usage. We are left with no other choice than to choose specific places in which to draw our own lines, so to speak, and help to promote change in whatever small way that we can. Secondly, not everyone has the same fortitude as others. This doesn't = hypocrisy. And it doesn't belittle the cause. I venture to say that not many people are altruistic enough to avoid supporting harm to other humans if it meant saving their own lives. Does this make people anti-human, pro-torture, or any of the like? OF COURSE NOT! Same logic applies. Understand?

Answer 2

Here in the UK about five years ago we had a disastrous drug trial which left several young men fighting for their lives. The drug in question had undergone animal tests and had passed and was subsequently deemed ready for trials on human subjects. The druig caused multiple organ failure and has resulted in permanent disability in a number of the participants.

In my view, this case only served to highlight the ineffectiveness of animal testing. There are a number of tests available which can test drugs and cosmetics on human tissues before they are tested on live humans. I believe that is the way forward.

Animal tests are cruel, unnecessary and frequently ineffective. They should be banned.

Answer 3

IMO and that of my colleagues in other disciplines, animal testing can be reduced by over 50% by using alternative means. I'm for it.

However, some items can only be tested on animals as a result of laws of various countries requiring such and not accepting alternative means, or the very nature of the product (usually certain medications) require that it be so before it is test on human beings.

Answer 4

I think it is totally wrong, the products should be tested on criminals instead. Most shampoos, creams etc etc have long ago been tested to animals and they know what's safe so why do they keep on doing it? As for medicinal testing, the results are often totally different on rats as on humans - there again use volunteers or criminals. Those poor animals kept in cages their whole lives and tortured really suffer and animals shouldnt have to go through this for the sake of humans.

Answer 5

Totally against it.I buy only organic all natural products period!I even stopped my meds for that reason.Even though it will never stop.I want feel guilty when I shampoo,wash clothes,(don't wear makeup) If I cant get it uptown I order it on line.I have a full list of products that do test and products that don't test.Watched and studied all the videos,articles,and web sites i could get my hands on.Cruel I say!Ive got the shopping list down to a tee for anyone who would like it, email me.100% against it.

Answer 6

I am very grateful for it. There are many scientific advances in the medical field because of it. The logic that it is not always reliable is questionable as the fact that so many products are benefitting people because of this testing belies that claim.
It is very easy to be against things without really thinking about what the alternative would be.


Jules- You are wrong. The case you mention may highlight the inefectiveness of animal testing in that case, but it does not follow that the same is true in every case.

Answer 7

I don't believe testing on animals is right.

Medical testing on animals is an outdated practice that is flawed. If animal test were reliable than there would not be so many recalled drugs.

Animals systems are far different than humans. Human diseases do not happen in animals, they are artificially created, therefore not the actual disease. Saying that animals are similar is not enough. If you were in a room and were told the air outside was similar to oxygen, but not quite, would you risk you life and go out? Or if I told you my lottery numbers were similar to the winning ones, would you start congradulating me?

Animals are different in many ways, arsenic can be ingested in great amounts by sheep, but would kill any human.

Animals testing lies, Animals and humans differ in medically important ways, and often animal experiments can produce misleading results. For example, repeated animal studies failed to demonstrate a correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. As a result, public warnings about the dangers of cigarette use were delayed, despite a wealth of compelling human data. Likewise, animal experiments in stroke research led to false conclusions, misleading researchers and wasting time and research funds. Of the 25 drugs which appeared to reduce the effects of stroke in rodents, not a single one worked in human patients.

Species are different and result differ among humans and animals. For example, liver tumors can be induced via chemicals in mice, but the same chemicals do not induce cancer in rats or hamsters. Benzedrine causes bladder tumors in humans, liver tumors in hamsters and middle ear tumors in rats

Animal experimentation has not helped people nearly as much as it has thwarted progress in the life sciences. Because animal research often gives false or misleading results, it wastes valuable time, often delaying life-saving treatments while rushing questionable and possibly harmful therapies to the marketplace. Some of our most significant breakthroughs in medicine have been made without animals. These include x-rays, MRIs and CT scans.

What needs to be done is focus on the people that have developed the disease. Computer technology has come a long way. There are models, programs, etc. The choice here is not between babies and dogs, it's about real science and fake science.

Answer 8

Without drugs that had been tested on animals I would almost certainly be dead. I know that in some people's eyes that makes me a 'vegan of convenience', but I don't care about their opinions.

I'm against testing cosmetics and other non-essentials on animals. I'm against frivolous and pointless experimentation.

I wish there was another way life-saving drugs could be tested - but I'm not going to pretend I'm not very glad I'm alive, or that I wouldn't make the same choice again tomorrow.

Edit** LOLOL at all those thumbs downs! are they for not being dead?

Answer 9

sure its not ideal but the solution is in your hands. You just have too volunteer to be tested on instead of the animals simple really

Answer 10

animal tests can be misleading. what works in one animal doesn't work all the time on another.

anyway if they are so close to us that we trust the drug on them, then they would be that close in other ways to and that would make the whole thing totally immoral.