Animal testing

[asher_]

Are you for or against animal testing? I'm against it, especially when it's for cosmetics etc. They should get humans volunteers to do it, or do tests on people who are on death row, you can't really say they've got much to look forward to in life.

I'm against animal testing when it comes to cosmetics where alternatives could be used. However, to a certain degree I don't totally disregard animal testing for medical research. Testing things on humans is never a good idea and seems like a bizarre thing to do. I remember reading a case about voluntary humans getting tested on and it wasn't good.

[Virgin Mary]

I'm against animal testing when it comes to cosmetics where alternatives could be used. However, to a certain degree I don't totally disregard animal testing for medical research. Testing things on humans is never a good idea and seems like a bizarre thing to do. I remember reading a case about voluntary humans getting tested on and it wasn't good.

Testing things on humans FOR humans is the best available option. Something will have much different effects on a lab rodent than it will on a human. People who volunteer do it knowing the possibile risk of such an outcome.

[lolerskates]

Something will have much different effects on a lab rodent than it will on a human.

But wouldn't you have preferred to have had an idea about the drug you were testing on a human first. If you give a drug to a rat and the rat dies, the chances are that if you give it to a human the human will die too. Cosmetics is a big no, but medically I think it is needed. The animals are bred for it, they don't know any different, think of the outrage if they came along and took your pet for testing.

[Virgin Mary]

But wouldn't you have preferred to have had an idea about the drug you were testing on a human first. If you give a drug to a rat and the rat dies, the chances are that if you give it to a human the human will die too. Cosmetics is a big no, but medically I think it is needed. The animals are bred for it, they don't know any different, think of the outrage if they came along and took your pet for testing.

Well, like I said, test it on those on death row. Maybe they should start breeding humans for it.

[ilovejordan]

What does ambiguous mean?

[lolerskates]

There are not enough people on death row to test. Only a handful of executions are carried out in the western world every year. Also it takes longer to create and raise a human baby as opposed to a litter of rats

[asher_]

I just wish the scientists actually gave a damn about animal welfare and atleast tried to give them some form of a life prior to testing, instead of breeding dozens of rabbits, simply for testing things such as cosmetics.

[Virgin Mary]

What does ambiguous mean?

Like if you think that testing for cosmetics is wrong but for medical reasons it's okay.

[WHANGFACE]

Like if you think that testing for cosmetics is wrong but for medical reasons it's okay.

Oh damn, I should have voted that really. I thoguht it means you don't have an opinion :rolleyes:

[Virgin Mary]

http://www.stopanimaltests.com/index.aspx