The People's Petition

[mstislavl]

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/

Comments

[mstislavl]

life results in death anyway. at least these deaths (of lab animalas) are useful for somebody. btw, phase 1 of clinical trials of any drug is testing it on animals. people opposing animal testing should refrain from use of any phamaceuticals and anti-cancer treatments.

Nutty Argument: pretending to switch sides :-)

[gerasirdis.livejournal.com]

And for that they have an argument (its value marked with subject)- let's eliminate animal testing step altogether: "all we need is more research on (paid?) volunteers, animals do not volunteer, therefore their use is unethical". On top of that, "things work different for animals and humans", which is sort of true, at least sometimes. As for "useful death"- Hitler would be proud :-).

[farraige.livejournal.com]

and so they would if there were an alternative. somebody propagating this line of view sounds like John Prescott who advocate getting the nation out of their cars but aren't prepared to introduce more trains and buses and make them cheaper. (I know you've never lived outside of cities, but there are some areas that only get two bus services a day.)

if: catch 22

[gerasirdis.livejournal.com]

>>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.