absoulte bull****! animals should not be tested on..... if you want subjects to test on, there are many many many criminals in jails that are there for life, use them as they dont deserve the life they have anyway. dont use innocent animals that dont even have a choice in the matter. Im sorry but I totally disagree with the cruelty involved in animal testing and you cannot say that keeping several beagles or whatever animal in a tiny cage for months is fair to them. Animal testing certainly is not a must or any sort of need. The animal does die in vain and it doesn't get to live decent life.
There are much better alternatives like i mentioned above, rather take those petty criminals and give them no choice like you do with the animals.
China does prisoner testing. I had an arguement with someone where about using prisoners as test subjects. Im cool for that however the problem with prisoners the the environment and the inabilty to procedure repeatable results. With animals we can control the gene pool and hence to an extent decrease the level of biological fluctuations in vivo. We can also breed mice prone for cancer or diabetes if we wish to do tests on diabetes.
Although prisoners seem like an attractive model they will serve no more purpose than observing pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profiles in a human model. Utterly useless for drug development
Unfortunately your average lifespan of 69 years is due to those little animals. If they didnt exist, they substract 27 years from that. Figures dont lie.
@ magicdude
Im KZN based and no longer in clinical practice. I can send you to epic orthos in KZN. One of the best is retired now (he is seriously considered one of the worlds best works in a government hospital. He occasionally flies around the world to teach the noobs how its done).
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I agree there should be some sort of testing to improve things but why test on animals first?
Animal testing is never done first. First is done is in vitro then in vivo. When doing in vivo your research is assessed by an independent board to approve the use of animals ethically. In other words if the study is of no value you wont be allowed to do animal testing.
Also the cost is ridicously high for animal testing to prevent abuse of the models. I assure you its as ethical as it can possibly be, but its a dirty job that is needed.
Oh and using prisoners is no different from taking homeless people or people no one cares about.
pictures are probably fake. Why would you need to burn a dog ? whats the point of even testing on a dog ? unless its for vet use. Primate models are not handled like that due to cross-contamination. Usually the mutalated bodies are from disecting after the animal has been euthanised.
They designed to get a sense of anger out of you with those pictures to pull you to their cause but im telling you that the medical cause is far more important
