Animal testing.?

Question

Ok this question only goes out to the people against animal cruelty and think is not a good idea to experiment animals for medical research. Why do you guys think it is not a good idea?

I am against.

Answer 1

Every year millions of animals suffer and die as a result of experiments, and most of these experiments cannot even be trusted. Animal testing is unreliable and the major reason for this is because animals have a completely different physiology to humans, so they respond differently to chemicals and medications. The results from animal tests are unreliable as a means of predicting effects in humans. Many people that use cosmetic products that have been tested on animals choose not to think about the terrible treatment of animals in laboratories, and assume that medical research on animals is beneficial. I hope that this article will inform you of some the problems associated with medical research on animals.

I absolutely hate it!!!

Answer 2

They think it is not a good idea because animals die. HOWEVER, these people are not going to turn down vaccines, medical procedures, and medications for themselves, their family, or their pets!!!!!

They will reap the benefits all the while yammering on about how cruel it is!!!!

OF COURSE animals and people are not identical!!! But all medications have to start someplace!!!! You need to have a LD-50...a test that tell the dosage at which 50% of the test subjects DIE. Now, we cannot use people for that....there are not enough!!!!! We have to use MICE and/or rats. Most medications start there and more up to more advanced species. Labs do not want to kill hundreds of VERY EXPENSIVE primates if they don't have to!!! So, bu they time they get there, they are dosing the primates and collecting blood samples to find out the blood levels of the medication over a certain time frame.
And some species are VERY much like people in some ways. Pigs and cats are udes for specific things because they are like humans is a certain respect.
So STOP being clueless. Humans and animals...both companion and wild..benefit from medical testing. It is necessary and must continue!!!

Sooooo. Drugs can just be developed and put on the market for people to take. No testing required? There cannot be human trials until enough is known aabout the drug, so how do we get it to that point???

Of course some medications will not work the same in animals and therefore be eliminated thinking they are no good. Some will get through and cause problems in humnas. Many of the drugs that they site humans DYING from are isolated to SOME humans. Not every PERSON is going to react to each drug the same. NO DRUG is safe for all people or animals.

Answer 3

You can start by not buying products from companies that do test on animals. I feel just like you about this! Here's a link showing which companies still test their products on animals. Share it with your friends to spread the word. Your a good person!
http://www.caringconsumer.com/pdfs/compa...
I feel the need to comment on "jennifer" a poster below.
First of all, medical testing on animals can not help a human. Because an animal had a complication to a drug it was tested on by NO means, means a human will have the same result. Our bodies and systems can not be compared and if you do your homework you will see that they give these poor animals overdosing amounts of these drugs/medications until a side affect/complication is observed. Then decide it can happen to you too. I unfortunately had to be on a medication for a medical problem while I was pregnant. It was a take it or die situation, so I did of course. I was terrifed my entire pregnancy because my OB constantly reminded me of the birth defects that they have seen in pregnant animals that were given this med. I researched and talked to many scientist specialists over the phone to find that, and I quote "We have only seen these birth defects in animals on this medication and never to date is there a human delivery with the said birth defects associated with this medication", your baby will be fine" Guess what she was perfect, and she still is 9 years later. We all can't stop having medical treatment or seeing our doctors, but don't support this issue. Watch a video on animal testing and see the torture for yourself.

Answer 4

Hate to break this to all those who are "pro-testing" but animal testing is absolutely useless. Testing on animals does not give us indications of how a human will respond. On one hand, the animal being tested may react horribly to something that we as humans would be fine with. On the other hand, the drugs may have no negative affects on the animal but kill a human. It's completely unreliable and unnecessary. For more information on the uselessness of it all, visit:

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/animaltesting.html

and google all the information you want on this. You'll find it everywhere. The reason it is still occuring is because it's much cheaper for corporations to test through these methods than to find alternative methods to get their products approved. As many people already know - corporations are the ones with money and money = power. They are still able to convince the public that it is necessary.

Answer 5

i am kind of mixed about it. i don't like it because animals are killed, but without it, we wouldn't have any medicines for humans and other animals... I really don't know whats right in this crazy world. i really do hate animal testing, and i dont use products tested on them. they are starved and are tested with different chemicals all the time. how would you feel? so don't pound down on animal lovers like me, animal testing only has one good side and that is that we discover vaccines for people. but that is a selfish reason. have a heart and think a little. someone has to defend the animals. I do defend them, but in this particular category, i am never sure.

Answer 6

I am half with you here....
I am against animal cruelty but I am not against the use of animals in medical research.

Why not?

It is NECESSARY!

Firstly, no one likes using animals - not even the people who design or carry out the tests. Animal use is ridiculously expensive and time consuming. The peolpe involved in medical research want to create drugs to save lives, and they want to do it in the quickest, eaiest, safest and most humane ways possible. They would not use animals unless they felt they had no choice.

Despite the lies have been told about animal research, it is not useless.

No scientist would EVER claim that animals are exactly like humans and their testing is infallible. This would be nonsense.
But.... animals and humans have a lot in common that we can use to our advantage. The scientists choose the species that best fits in with what they are trying to achieve.
Our differences can also be useful... for example, say humans contract disease A and die from it, but mice contract it and do not die. Why not? We may be able to work out how they are protected and replicate it to create a treatment for humans.

Animal research has already proved that it is far from useless, as many drugs and treatmets would not exist if it were not for animals. This includes anaesthetics, analgesics, vaccines (eg polio), blood transfusions etc.

Of course animal research is not perfect - but neither is any other method available to us. Scientists therefore use a range of techniques to develop and test new drugs - animals are only a small part of this. This gives them a better overall idea of what the drug should do in people.

Lots of people claim we can use alternatives, like computer modelling and cell culture. This is only half true.

These "alternatives" are not perfect either, and are not developed enough to totaly replace all animals. Fortunately, some have already replaced animals in particular tests. As the we develop new alternatives and improve existing ones the need to use animals will reduce. Scientists are already trying to do this.

Eventually we should be able to completely stop using animals, but we are not ready for that yet. If we just stopped animal research now we would cripple medical research because we do not enough suitable alternatives to replace it.

Remember also that many veterinary drugs exist thanks to animal research. Every time you get your pet vaccinated or treated for illness, you should be grateful for the lab animals that gave their livse so that your pet could live.

Finally what makes animal research worse than any other "use" of animals? From my experience most (though not all) anti-vivs are totally hypocritical.
For example:

Do you still use the benefits of medical research? Take painkillers or antibiotics? A lot of people will rave about how evil scientists are to use animals - some even resort to violence - but are happy to use these scientists' work when it suits them!

Do you eat meat? You can live very healthily on a vegetarian diet, but most of you will sit there eating your factory-farmed meat while complaining about using animals to save lives!

Do you keep pets? This might shock you - many of the pet rabbit cages for sale in the UK are SMALLER than the minimum cage size required by law for lab rabbits. Do you keep your pet in a small cage? Leave your dog crated for 8 hours while you work? Do you keep a social species eg a guinea pig on its own? Feed cheap, poor quality food? Use a choke chain or shock collar? These are totally unnecessary forms of cruelty - these animals suffer because their owners are too tight/lazy/selfish to provide them with what they need.

Try looking at your own lifestyles before criticising an industry you know nothing about.

Finally, how many of you have actually researched animal research? I mean looked at both sides of the debate? Most anti-vivs I have met have only looked at the the animal rights and anti-viv sites. They haven't bothered to see what the other side has to say. If you want to form a "considered opinion", based on facts rather than propaganda, you need to look at both.

Of course, the only way to get an accurate impression of the life of a lab animal is to go to a lab. Most anti-vivs have never been in one.

I HAVE been in a number of UK labs. They were NOTHING like the photos the anti-vivs show you.

If you really want to know about animal research check out these sites:

http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/
http://www.medicalprogress.org/
http://scienceandresearch.homeoffice.gov.uk/animal-research/

Answer 7

It's cruel and humiliating to the animals. Why should the animals have to suffer on our account. Also it makes no sense. Animals are not the same as people so youre not going to get acurate results.

Answer 8

depends on what it is.