Are you one of those people who protests about animal rights? Yes? Good, keep reading...?

Question

You complain about new cures and medicines being tested on animals. But I can almost guarentee your answer to the following question will be no. Would you rather the medicines and cures were tested on humans and more to the point, you?

Cori, what would those ways be? The cures/medicines have to be tested on living things with living pathogens, antibodies, etc.

Answer 1

Anyone who says that medicines can be tested in other ways than testing on animals is ignorant of medical science. Some animal testing actually is meant for the benefit of the animals - this is why we have veterinarians - without some animal research we will have no advances in the knowledge of how to treat and care for them. Some animals may even be saved from extinction because of animal research. Eventually animal testing will become a thing of the past because of computer modeling, but that hasn't happened yet. Until then, despite what the ignorant say, animal testing is a necessity, and very often is meant for the benefit of the animals, not mankind. Also, you HAVE to test the medicines on animals FIRST - testing an unproven medicine on humans first is illegal and unethical in most cases except in extreme circumstances, such as an emergency or if there is no known way to treat a condition which will result in death if nothing is tried.
Animals SHOULD be protected, but stopping all animal testing is not going to happen, nor should it happen, because if animal research stops, advancement in veterinary medicine stops too.

One thing I do not understand is why aren't the PETA people putting up a reward for someone who can generate a computer model of animal biology to reduce or eliminate the need for animal testing? They ought to put their money where their mouth is.

And, have we forgotten that people are animals too? Are people "less important animals" than other animals? These folks seem to completely ignore this hypocrisy.

Answer 2

of course not, but i don't agree with them being tested on animals, either, because there are other ways of testing them, which science hasn't adopted yet.