Animal testing : your opinion.

[Dezerte]

I feel uneasy about the whole thing, but I suppose it's a necessary evil we do to rapidly speed up medical science (screw cosmetics).

[Deleted]

I'm divided on this issue

On the one hand, I'm a treehugging hippie who believes everything that lives should be respected.

On the other hand, I like eating meat and I would like there to be a cure for cancer one day.

[Grimbold21]

Aren't the United States prisons over populated?

There's your solution

[StayTuned]

Aren't the United States prisons over populated?

There's your solution

Yea let's go test medicine on people first instead of animals.

Hi Mengele, I didn't know you were still around

[Grimbold21]

Yea let's go test medicine on people first instead of animals.

Hi Mengele, I didn't know you were still around

Oh? The ethics change when we go from animals to people?

[Independent voter]

People don't seem to mind what is done to rats. When you start using cats and dogs they notice, monkeys make people hesitant and using chimps makes people nuts. To me a human is still more valuable than an animal so I'm for animal testing as long as it's done as humanely as possible.

For the Ebola vaccine they got some religious types to try it out on. That's interesting.

[StayTuned]

Oh? The ethics change when we go from animals to people?

So ethics change when we go from criminals to non criminals?

As to your question: yes, to a certain degree.

[schwank05]

Medical tests: yes
Cosmetic tests: no

^ This right here.

[Charge me Doctor]

I'm fine with it, we can't really grow bunch of humans and use them as test subjects. And i can't imagine how drunk you have to be to give a consent to be test subject for tests executed on animals. You know, there is a reason for it, people can die. Don't worry, it will stop when scientists will be able to create artificial organisms to run tests on, but for now they have to use animals instead

[dextersmith]

Animal testing is a necessary evil.

[quras]

Medical tests: yes
Cosmetic tests: no

I'm right there too ^

[ItachiZaku]

To paraphrase Ed Bundy from Modern Family "Win a war, then you can have a say", so let Dogs and Cats rise up and protest, until then, test away!

Really, I'm against it, but there really isn't an alternative - we'd run out of humans to test on at some point.

[Maltah]

Oh? The ethics change when we go from animals to people?

Yes, they do. They even change depending on the species.

[Zonned]

If the testing is scientifically beneficial to humans such as medicine then yes, if its for something stupid like perfumes or makeup then no.