Do you approve of animal testing?

United States
March 23, 2007 7:37pm CST
Do you think it is important that we test on animals, or do you think it is mistreatment? How much do you know (or think you know) about the subject?
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4 responses
@airstone (126)
• China
13 Apr 07
i think human have no choices but have to keep animal texting,bucauxe we cann't put up human testing,of course,beforetime they did it,Perpahs,now they also do human testing! Except we needn't improve our technology of biology, cure etc. human will not stop animal testing.
@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
24 Mar 07
i am going to say or no, it is depend on what they testing, i am not totaly agree with it is ok to do animals testing, and i am not 100% disagree with it neithre, there is thing that we cant just test on human first, but also there is testing that shouldnt be done at all. like smoking for exsample we know what bad effects with it yet people keep on test it on animals
@Fargale (760)
• Brazil
24 Mar 07
I gladly admit I don't know much about this subject. But from what I do know, I can see no compelling reason to be against medicine testing on animals. I have no qualms about seeing a few animals being sacrificed if that will increase the chances of survival for so many human beings now and in the future.
@meredin (13)
24 Mar 07
that is a very thorny subject!!! personaly I'm against it compleatly. I can think of no excuse for testing of cosmetics etc. that is simply discusting. now when it comes to medical reasearch i can understand the reasons behind it. however our genitic make up is not the same as the animals so there will be differences in reaction! I read some were that one of the early antibiotics or painkillers (could be asprin but I'm not sure. if someone knows please comment) that was developed before animal testing became widespread actualy has no effect for animals so would of never made it on to the shelves! it makes me wonder how many possibale medications have we missed out on due to the differances between humans and the test animals? though as for surgesting alternatives thats even harder. hopefully one day well have refined computer modeling to such a degree that animal testing won't be needed though that won't happen for many years if ever. maybe test them on mass muderers, rapests and other nasty types but then where do you draw the line... that could get very scary so I'll stop that line of thought right there!!!