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mstislavl ([personal profile] mstislavl) wrote2006-05-15 11:10 am

The People's Petition

I believe that the animals tested on should still be treated well, but I also appreciate that many human lives have been saved thanks to Animal testing.

http://www.thepeoplespetition.org.uk/signup/

Dugs and cosmetics: let's straighten our priorities

[identity profile] gerasirdis.livejournal.com 2006-05-17 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Now this really puzzles me. All in all, drugs that haven't been tested properly could only kill tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, if it were a common disease. On the other hand, if something goes wrong in cosmetics department, number of victims could easily run into tens of millions or even more. So why are we willing to go an extra mile for few potential victims, and yet we are reluctant to take exactly the same precautionary steps to (possibly) save many more?