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No, the body of a human is very much different than the body of an animal that is tested on the drugs and vaccines that we are taking today. Ban the experiments on animals
 brittany  30 Apr 2008 15:00
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Whether it's for medical purposes or for cosmetics, animal testing is unnecessary.
Animals and Humans do not get the same diseases.

Drugs that have been tested on animals and said to be okay have caused birth defects and other problems with humans.
Ex: Thalidomide

Different things have different affects on different animals. How do we know which ones will work on us? You can not say just use one animal that is the most like us because they all have reacted bad to things that we react well to and vice versa.

Ex:
Arsenic is not poisonous to rats, mice, or sheep.
PCP is a sedative for chimps
Morphine is a stimulate for cats, goats, and horses but a sedative for humans.
Digitalis can kill dogs, but helps save humans.
Penicillin is poisonous to Guinea Pigs

many vaccinations founded by animal testing may be the cause of many medical problems.

We have enough data and alternatives that testing cosmetics on animals has almost become obsolete.

What if we decided that testing on a tribe of humans far away was okay and that became acceptable in our society? Would you agree with it Just because the pharmaceutical industries and institutes 'say' the research saves lives and it's effective?
Or would you then be turning towards our many more inexpensive and more effective alternatives?
 
 helloxbye  21 Oct 2008 05:20
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I've heard that there are computer programs that can calculate the chemicals in a human and the chemicals in the products they are testing and calculate the outcome. It is meant to be 80% accurate which is A LOT higher than the accuracy of animal testing. Although apparently this system is very expensive but surely it is worth the lives of thousands of animals.
 
 blathnaid  29 Sep 2008 16:39
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Animal and human nervous, digestive, reproductive, circulatory and skelatul systems
all work very similar so animal testing is a good thing or would you prefer using men, women and children instead
 
 conor  30 Apr 2008 21:17
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 Wrong side, you disagree with the statement..
by  Intuition
 23 May 2008 14:53
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There are still many methods of animal testing that have no acceptable replacement methodology that will produce useful data. An immeasurable amount of useful date has come from animal testing and uncounted lives have been saved. Nobody wants to cause animals to suffer any more than absolutely necessary. The governing bodies that determine currant protocol always advocate discovery of alternative methodology and it is hoped by all that someday animal testing, outside of veterinary research, will be completely unnecessary someday.
 
 finsch  21 Oct 2008 08:09
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One of the problems is that it does not always react on humans the same as it does for animals, but it is a horrible necessity.
 
 martlamb  23 May 2008 14:43
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 the same drug doesn't react the same from one human to another, not even counting the animals. Name one drug, that has EVER gotten rid of a disease.
by  stever
 26 May 2008 21:31
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Many medical breakthroughs have been due to animal testing.
 
 ibanex_87  04 May 2008 11:23
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 but they could have been found by alternative means. and some of those medical breakthroughs have caused other medical issues.
Ex: the salk pollio vaccine was found by testing on monkey kidney cells. they now know that there are viruses in monkey kidney cells that cause cancer in humans. Also, many vaccinations that have been tested on animals may be the cause for medical issues such as asthma, autism, epilepsy, diabetes, etc.
by  helloxbye
 21 Oct 2008 04:52
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Of course it works. Why do you think they take place?, for some sick people to have fun torturing animals. You are clearly passionate about this so start with the basics and find out the opposite side of your argument before opposing it.
 
 StBalders  01 May 2008 11:34
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 if you look at some undercover videos, these tests are sometimes done for sick people to have fun. why else would they slit dogs' throats for them to stop screaming, or break chinchilla's necks while they're still conscious? And they laugh and toss the bodies in the back of a truck or in a bin.

and like my comments above, they don't always work. The people who found Penicillin state themselves that it was by 'luck' that they chose mice to test the drug on. If they had tested it on guinea pigs instead, they would have thought the drug poisonous.

Arsenic is Not poisonous to Rats, mice, or sheep.
Digitalis dangerously raises blood pressure in dogs, yet it saves cardiac patients by lowering their heart rates.



Most cures are found by alternative means or by studying the human body. it is very rare, if ever, that animal testing has truly aided the research. You need to find out the facts about the opposite side of YOUR argument before opposing it.
by  helloxbye
 21 Oct 2008 05:00
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These things were based on D.N.A responses to research and other links found by modern technology that the human eye can not see.
 
 Bacchus  30 Apr 2008 19:42
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Garbage. Many medical breakthroughs have been accomplished using animal testing. What about pig heart valve transplantations?
 
 bishop  30 Apr 2008 18:01
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