Public Health England: Please Don’t Test the New Coronavirus Vaccine on Animals!!!!

    Hello 👋,
    I researched the human volunteer trials for the new coronavirus vaccine here in the UK. It probably wouldn’t have been doable anyway, but I was wanting to partake in the volunteer trials. However, I found out that the Public Health England laboratory near Salisbury is planning on testing this new vaccine on animals first. I am very against animal experimentation and vivisection. I am in no way against helping humans, I am extremely for helping human beings, it is extremely important. I donate often to help human beings as well as nonhuman beings. However, I think that nonhuman animals are almost if not as important as humans...
    Besides, this whole coronavirus mess was created through human cruelty to animals (selling animals like bats and pangolins for human consumption in cruel, close conditions, close contact between the animals and humans). Why should animals have to suffer and be exploited and abused again just because of human greed, stupidity and cruelty?
    I’m all for finding cures and vaccines for coronavirus, but it should be done without the use of animals, if possible.
    In-vitro tests, computer simulation, cell culture, medical imaging, microfluidic chips, fungal models (fungi evolved closer to animals than plants, but they probably lack the level of sentience that vertebrates and even some invertebrates possess) and human volunteer trials, like the ones mentioned.
    Animal “research” is also said, including by some medical experts and doctors, to be unreliable and dangerously misleading due to the physiological differences between animals and humans. Animals react differently to medications than humans. For instance, aspirin is toxic to cats. Penicillin is toxic to guinea pigs. Cocoa powder contains a chemical called theobromine that is safe for humans but can kill dogs. Thalidomide was tested on animals and proved safe in animal trials, and look how that ended up. I know the testing methods and techniques and trials have gotten better since then, but animal-based research and testing could still be unreliable.
    PETA states that “As the coronavirus outbreak threatens to become a worldwide pandemic, laboratories are busy planning to infect animals in deadly pathogen tests - even though this antiquated 19th Century approach has a history of delaying treatments, wasting funds and causing more harm to human patients, who are now suffering from dangerous 21st Century diseases. The public is fearful of this new coronavirus, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that killing animals in laboratories will be the solution. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and given that the pathogens that cause pandemics typically jump from farmed animals to humans, it’s time to stop breeding and eating billions of animals each year. Concerned people should go vegan, since filthy farms and markets crammed full of sick animals are breeding grounds for both viruses and superbugs.”
    In 2012, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stated that “research involving chimpanzees rarely accelerated human discoveries or advancement of human health for infectious diseases.” 95% of new drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in human trials, according to the NIH. In the USA, the NIH isn’t doing animal trials and is going straight through to human trials. Providing it is safe (why would they do this and allow this in the USA if it wasn’t safe?), why not do the same over here? Obviously, testing for coronavirus vaccines without using animals is safe and doable, so why torture and exploit animals unnecessarily?
    Please, please, please reconsider and don’t test the new coronavirus vaccine on animals!!!!
    May you, all those affected by coronavirus, all the animals and all other sentient beings everywhere be perfectly well, healthy, happy and safe forever ♾.
    Best Wishes to all,
    Rory.
    Have the best day and night ever!
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