Animal testing costs the American public over $136 billion annually.
Drugs that pass animal tests end up harming or killing humans about 61% of the time.
Between 25 and 50 billion animals are meaninglessly killed in laboratories each year.
50% of the animals used for cosmetic testing, 50% die two to three weeks after being tested.
Many animals are used in scientific and medical research. They often undergo cruel methods of testing and suffer greatly as a result. Animal experimentation is both cruel and unnecessary and humans have no right to put innocent animals through such torture. Scientists often don't benefit from testing on animals as they are so different from us and react differently to drugs. Results obtained from experimenting on animals are unreliable.
There are numerous cases that highlight the absurdity of assuming that humans and animals have a biology sufficiently similar for experimentation to yield useful results. For example: morphine calms humans but excites cats, cortisone causes birth defects in mice but not in humans, penicillin kills guiniea pigs and hamsters and aspirin poisons cats. If the results of tests on animals had been relied upon we would not have penicillin or digitalis (a drug used by heart patients but which was withheld for a long time because it was found to raise the blood pressure of dogs). We would also be without chloroform (once a common anaesthetic but not used initially because it was toxic to dogs) and aspirin (which causes foetal deformities in rats and is toxic to certain animals). Certain steroids, adrenaline, insulin and some antibiotics are also toxic to many animals but medically beneficial to humans.
Another example of how animals can't be relied on to yield reliable results is the case of rats being used for cancer research. On 25th February 1993, it was reported in the age that using rats for cancer research may be pointless. The gene repair systems of rats, it has been found, makes them unusually susceptible to cancer and while it was once thought that their responses parallelled our own, it now appears that there are significant differences in 'the way humans and rodents repair genes damaged by chemicals, radiation, or other agents that mutate DNA.' (Age, 25th February 1993).
The following information was extracted from the PETA website (http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/peta/) and tells you what companies currently test on animals:
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Animal testing costs the American public over $136 billion annually.
Drugs that pass animal tests end up harming or killing humans about 61% of the time.
Between 25 and 50 billion animals are meaninglessly killed in laboratories each year.
50% of the animals used for cosmetic testing, 50% die two to three weeks after being tested.
Many animals are used in scientific and medical research. They often undergo cruel methods of testing and suffer greatly as a result. Animal experimentation is both cruel and unnecessary and humans have no right to put innocent animals through such torture. Scientists often don't benefit from testing on animals as they are so different from us and react differently to drugs. Results obtained from experimenting on animals are unreliable.
There are numerous cases that highlight the absurdity of assuming that humans and animals have a biology sufficiently similar for experimentation to yield useful results. For example: morphine calms humans but excites cats, cortisone causes birth defects in mice but not in humans, penicillin kills guiniea pigs and hamsters and aspirin poisons cats. If the results of tests on animals had been relied upon we would not have penicillin or digitalis (a drug used by heart patients but which was withheld for a long time because it was found to raise the blood pressure of dogs). We would also be without chloroform (once a common anaesthetic but not used initially because it was toxic to dogs) and aspirin (which causes foetal deformities in rats and is toxic to certain animals). Certain steroids, adrenaline, insulin and some antibiotics are also toxic to many animals but medically beneficial to humans.
Another example of how animals can't be relied on to yield reliable results is the case of rats being used for cancer research. On 25th February 1993, it was reported in the age that using rats for cancer research may be pointless. The gene repair systems of rats, it has been found, makes them unusually susceptible to cancer and while it was once thought that their responses parallelled our own, it now appears that there are significant differences in 'the way humans and rodents repair genes damaged by chemicals, radiation, or other agents that mutate DNA.' (Age, 25th February 1993).
The following information was extracted from the PETA website (http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/peta/) and tells you what companies currently test on animals:
And sign this petition
There are so many alternative methods for doing medical and scientific research!
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12:17 pm PST, Jan 21,
Carrie Anne Brown, United Kingdom
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6:32 am PST, Dec 4,
Manon Gauthier, Canada
Tous vos commentaires aller à Liverpool, du Conseil et de l'Université! Pourquoi l'expérimentation animale mal pourquoi pensez-vous DONT IL a Besoin de S'arrêter. |
understand that testing saves lives but why not on dogs that have alredy passed.we are all gods creatures and who are you to play god and decide that torture is acceptable.