>>people opposing animal testing should >>refrain from use of any phamaceuticals >>and anti-cancer treatments >and so they would if there >were an alternative. And this is asking for the impossible. Animals are used for research ONLY when there is no alternative. If there was a working alternative developed without animal testing, no one would bother to come up with yet another cancer treatment developed using (expensive, time consuming and heavily red-taped) animal testing.
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Date: 2006-05-21 10:31 am (UTC)>>refrain from use of any phamaceuticals
>>and anti-cancer treatments
>and so they would if there
>were an alternative.
And this is asking for the impossible. Animals are used for research ONLY when there is no alternative. If there was a working alternative developed without animal testing, no one would bother to come up with yet another cancer treatment developed using (expensive, time consuming and heavily red-taped) animal testing.