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Wow. i have so much to reply to.
First off, i don't believe in ANY kind of animal testing. Which is why i watch what i use, and refuse to take ANY medications.
I understand where you are coming from the medical standpoint; however, animals are completly different from humans. Chocolate will kill a dog or cat. If we tested it out on them, we would never have had it.
Animals and humans are two completly different species. We are almost nothing alike. We share more genes with a banana than a rodent. Do you see scientists testing on bananas?
Second, there are several 'accidents' where a product was deemed safe through animal testing. When humans used it, it turned on disastorous.







One animal can breathe arsenic and survive without major damage; does that mean it's safe for us?

Animal testing is nore more predictable than flipping a coin. There are over hundreds of substitute products to use: donations, synthetic skins, computer analysis, et cetera.


Okay, personally i am for prisoners being tested on. In the US, we give our prisoners the best care. They have dental care, health care, and several privelages. When they commited their crime, they should have given up all their rights. Not obtained more.

I believe if people want all the major diseases and such (AIDS, HIV, cancer) they should test it on theirselves. Stop being scared of a needle; the animal was forced to do it.
Animals have no voice. They *need* a voice.
And it doesn't matte whether the animal was plucked out of the wild, or was breed. If i was either or, i wouldn't want chemicals forced into my body. I wouldn't want to be crammed into a cage. I would want to live a normal, happy life. And die of NATURAL causes.

I'm against it.
Do you know what they do in animal testing? One of the tests is sticking a needle in the animals eye, injecting the product, and seeing what happens. Another is shaving them and putting a cream or other product. It's not good for them. They don't walk away just fine. They don't have nice lives.
What drives me crazy is how there are practically NO products that weren't tested on animals (that aren't insanely expensive) around.The only thing I have found is Tom of Maines deodarant. Other wise, I just look for stuff that says it wasn't tested and hope they're telling the truth.

Using animals for testing is like using infants. They can't speak up and they don't know what's going on and how it will effect them. If these scientists were to use babies not animals, what would the people who agree with animal testing say?

Ladies, it appears you aren't aware of what you're saying.

-There are regulations to keep people from abusing the animals.
-Governments control the animals used, the pain that's inflicted on them(they anesthize them) and what they're used for.
-Test animals are euthanized. HUMANELY. Therefore they're in no pain upon death.

@CrimsonDecayingRose

You probably didn't intend for this, but your post(near the end) sounds like

'Well, who cares about the person who gets cancer or Aids, they're just going to have to deal with it themselves.'

Are you able to prove to me that they feel no pain? Could they possibly not be able to express oain because of the drugs that could make it hard for them to use their limbs? Also, if it were HUMANE why would it be happening anyway? It could be humane the same way with people.
AND if you're wondering why I keep comparing people to animals, I do it because, no offense, I was raised a Mormon and I learned that you don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you and that includes animals in my thinking.

Also, my own little touch that has little to do with the topic but with waht you said, the government also allowed off shore drilling in a HIGH RISK area which led to the major oil spill.

It seems that the point of my rebuttal was largely unseen. I will restate it.
We are not here to converse about the government, human error, or biological disasters. Off-topic.

What I am trying to say is that you're not giving humanity a chance. Humans have come a long way from the days where we chased Woolly Mammoths. Therefore, unless you have irrefutable proof of these alleged misuses of the animal testing, then I am inclined to stick with my own opinion.

While animals do die, their sacrifices aren't in vain. Knowledge from such experiments comes to benefit mankind.

Emotionally, I am opposed to all forms of it. In an attempt to use the left side of my brain, however, I must admit that the medical applications can very well benefit all forms of life.

I do not affiliate my sympathies with anonymous companies. I merely want to clarify that it has evolved to become more humane.

I'm very much in favor of animal testing.

That doesn't mean I'm in favor of all animal testing, but we have learned so much of value with it, and there is a lot left to learn.

I'd be out of a job without it, too. surprised