What is Animal Testing?

I understand the need for animal testing in some situations. As a diabetic, I can't help but be grateful for the fact that animal testing was responsible for many of the medications that are continuing to save my life. However, some of the conditions are (even though touted as "least possible harm") just too distressing for me to not continue to hold the scientific community to continued scrutiny and accountability. The viral video of lab beagles touching grass for the first time and being socialized broke my heart. These are pack animals who were kept in isolation for years. The psychological damage done to them shows in their behavior. Timid and voiceless...devoid of any happiness. Had rescuers not stepped in, they would have been euthanized after their usefulness ended. Have we really done all we can to ensure a quality of life for these animals while still gathering scientific data? And let me say that, no matter the benefit to humanity, I believe it unconscionable to conduct testing to measure pain tolerance or time lapse of death. It does not change the outcome and the variables encountered makes this nothing more than morbid curiosity. Data could be more dependably gathered from any true (versus hypothetical) incidents should they happen - which I pray is never the case. Even though I cannot refute the benefits of some animal testing, I also cannot refute the benefits from continued scrutiny and activism to continue to push the scientific community into doing more to ensure the best care and constantly reevaluate their procedures. For it's when we stop looking and questioning that institutions would enthusiastically slide into cruel practices which would be more expedient and affordable.

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I HATE EVERYONE THAT TESTS ON ANIMALS!!!!

I think that animal testing is very wrong, if you are one that hurts innocent animals then shame on you because it's disgusting!!!!

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It is being pointed out many times on this website that animals are similar to humans. Well if that is so, then it speaks even more against the procedures that are being done on millions and millions of animals yearly. If you don't think of it as cruelty to: keep prisoner in cages in tiny (crowded) spaces, force horrible diseases, cut open wounds, inject chemicals, deprived from sleep, food and water etc etc… to be killed in the end for “tests” that over 90% do not serve human biology (yes, read some more scientific information elsewhere)? Sounds fun! If a single human would have to go through any of this, it would be called horribly cruel. You should try it yourself and then speak about it. It is a medieval thinking that humans should face and finally step into the 21st century. Glorifying this website that is only PRO animal testing is totally ignorant and obviously being used to ease your consciousness (seems some have none) and not searching for more answers elsewhere, shows the low level of empathy and (emotional) intelligence among pretty many people visiting this site. Well, that partially explains why animal tests still exist… Those who write that have a dog and are still for AT, can donate their dog for it, then they might feel what it means. Imagine then millions of innocent animals going daily through this! For me, very disappointing and one-sided website that is written for one-sided people who don’t want to see the truth except their own. The truth that it is (still) a very profitable machinery of the powerful pharmaceutic industry, might explain why it is still holding strongly to its cruel practices. Times are changing, but those who earn the big buck are of course the ones least interested to change. Maybe you should think about that. Or simply THINK! Not just with your mind, but with your heart as well.

People are only seeing the side of how animals are suffering, and how they are being abused....But think about it people, what else would we do it on, another human? You are only hearing of the bad labs, some really do take care of the animals, they do their best to make the animals comfortable. The rats actually like to play in the smoke.

I debated this topic in year 8, and had to say it was a good idea. It really is. I could bring my whole speech up again!

I think animal testing is so wrong people who agree to testing are rats so you would kill animals for your own happiness what is wrong with everyone these bratty people don’t care they just say oh Dirac just as long as I’m happy or some comments even say oh I am happy they kill animals wth wrong with you people

I think it should never be done even if it benefits us because it hurts the helpless animals.

animaltesting is cruel and personally I think it should never be done.

These are my own opinions on animal testing - they are not perfect but they won't be far wrong.Written for the animals. Humans could be tested on more, slowly and in teensy ways.The public and prisoners can be experimented on (voluntarily), as long as they want to and are able to consent to it.They would need good rewards, and do so only at a small risk.People could be paid to be tested on instead of putting money into expensive animal maintenance. A lot of people get cancer these days, and some experimenters say that it becomes a matter of 'mouse cancer' to deal with, not human cancer.Animal tests are inaccurate in order to account for human ones.Not caring for an animal means not caring for a human. Computers in animation sounds like amazing new technology, it must be that the animal's senses and everything is recorded on the screen. They could invent a computer animal/human. Computer wizards need to be working on this new technology 24/7 and brainstorming, as we speak.Make a human robot with feelings someone! My knowledge nowadays of Pavlov's dog is that it had something implanted into its jaw, sounds like a mean animal experiment. We could all catch a mutating disease perhaps from the animals as they could live in dirty laboratories.I have seen footage of testers without gloves on when handling animals, and so then they touch the ingredients, and so on. Testers inject awful human diseases into animals and animals don't get these kind of diseases. They will stop animal testing in cosmetics, it is a question of when. Animal testing for food and drugs is next hopefully. The public want this stopped effective, immediately, and then the new ideas will spring forth. It is better to give 'animal test' a new name of 'animal abuse'. Chemicals for me are annoying, I like natural ingredients, that is the way of the future.

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Hey so i have a problem. Our school supports Jeans for Genes and we do lots of charity work. I'm a huge believer in no animal testing and I was researching about Jeans for Genes and apparently they use animal testing. I know its morally wrong but Im inclined to just let it go and go ahead promoting it but idk......

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This site is very help full, as I was doing a project on animal testing and needed to know information this site as told me a lot but I am against this because we should not be hurting poor animals but at the same time I think this is a good idea because we would not of been able to survive with out testing on these animals.

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Cruel to monkeys they're no different to us,but not cruel to rats they are pests.It's all foryour own benefit. Inhumanity would be if it was tested on humans first.

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So So cruel, how can people do this to animals, they are living beings like us, what puts us above them??????

@Someone, There's a difference between testing potentially deadly things on babies and on rats bred for that purpose.Babies may not have a voice, but they're still human.Rats aren't.Personally, I think that if you feel so strongly about not testing on rats, you should volunteer to be given cancer and test a drug that may or may not kill you.If you aren't willing to, wouldn't it make sense to do it on not a human?

I think animal testing is very crusial to animals because it is very bad i think by caitln jean laura mary mccourt