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Why do PETA and other animal activist think its wrong to test on animals?

Why do they think its wrong to test on animals when animals have given us some of the greatest cures and medical insight, and the animals are expendable? Activist say that its "Cruel" and that we should use humans to test on, but if we used humans they would protest that. Hows it wrong if the animals are expendable and they have no feelings and except death? How many humans would not be alive if it wasnt for animal testing?

Public Comments

1. Because it *IS* wrong. Terribly, horribly immoral and unethical. And if you took five minutes out of your life to do a little google research, you would learn that a great deal of "testing" isn't about "medical research" at all, but for completely unnecessary applications. Research which has already been done to death, over and over. These vivisection labs mostly serve only as a funnel for government grants - these people just want to keep their jobs. They are actually serving any real purpose. As for the "medical research" -- did it ever occur to you that the results found with a MOUSE don't apply realistically to a human at all? And the punchline of it all is that most of the research can be conducted in OTHER ways - even as simple as with a petri dish. There is NO justification for the horrific things done to living, sensient beings. NONE.
2. Have you ever seen what they do to them? How bad it really is? Maybe you should YouTube it and see if you can stomach it...... I worked with animals that have been tested (the few that live) and they were in such bad shape. So sick and SO scared of humans. It's really horrible. How would you like your life to be nothing but torture and pain for years, then death? Animals feel. They feel pain. They feel scared. What companies and researchers do to them is horrible. I'd rather that we take a little longer with trial and error then to kill and torture millions of animals a year just for a few new discoveries.
3. As I said the other day, if testing can't be done on animals. Then they should do the testing on prisoners in jail. Nothing was ever said until some nose blower formed PETA and then all of a sudden, everything that is done is wrong. My son in law is using a medicine for skin cancer that was tested first on animals(rats to be exact). Now is the human testing part, and it is working he hasn't had any new cancer spots in almost a year. So I for one am glad they first test on animals, because some of this stuff they test could kill all of of us if not tested first. Life is cruel, are we protesting that to?
4. Thats because it is wrong! Animals do not ask to be tested on! If a human says "Test on me, I don't care" then that would be ok because the person wants to be tested on but animals CAN'T TALK! Have you seen what they do to them ? Obviously not.
5. Right, I'd like to start off by pointing out that, although a strong advocate of animal rights and a vegan (5 years strong) I disapproves of PETA and find their policies questionable. Similar to the other responses here so far, patronizing people and shouting emotional language whilst saying very little of factual relevance is not an appropriate way to express your beliefs. Regardless, There are numerous reasons a lot of advocates of animals rights oppose animal testing. The most common on being the pain inflicted upon the animal, naturally animal rights activists oppose animals being put in pain in an unnatural environment. However secondly, and most pressingly, animal testing is not always accurate, there is a lot of long-winded research into this but simply put humans do not react in the same way as apes or rats etc, in the long term, products still need to be tested on humans before marketing. Animal testing is not used for it's reliability but for it's cost effectiveness. The dollar is stronger than a couple hundred dead rats. Also the point about human testing is untrue, humans have the choice to partake in medical/cosmetic testing and are usually paid (a lot). Animals do not and are not. A lot of animal rights activists liken the testing of animals for medicine to the Nazi experiments on Jews. Although this is obviously an extreme gone to in order to shock, and get cheap publicity. Although it does have some founding, just because something gets results, doesn't mean it's morally good. What alot of activists are ignorant of is that species very often doesn't have anything to do with it, instead we're talking about relationshipsNikes me explain this: You're fine with someone testing on dogs, but not someone testing on your dog. You're fine with buying a pair of Nikes, but you wouldn't be if it was your child in the labour camp. You read a story about an old man dying, you think: "That's sad but he was old, it's to be expected" then you never think about it again. Your father dies: you're distraught and never forget the moment you were told. This is human nature, we care about those close to us, some people care more widly than others but others and animal rights activists tend to care more widely than others. You could call them more aware, or you could call them too aware. It's your call.
6. The insane are incapable of rational thinking. Simple,eh?
7. Any human knowledge gained using animals for testing is done so at the expense of human character. WWW.STOPANIMALTESTS.COM lists excuses researchers use to justify testing on animals & also lists alternatives to such testing.
8. animal testing is wrong if its for something stupid like cosmetics. however medical testing is important and animals are used because they have similar structure to humans biologically and if something bad happens to them they know it will happen to a human. i would rather a mouse die to help cure cancer then a human.medicines that are saving human lives were tested on animals. animal activists think that because animals are sentient beings meaning they have emotions and feel pain, they should not be eaten or tested on.