Think animal testing is necessary?

If you think animal experiments are necessary consider the following:

Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever seen in animals. Over 98% never are.

At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in lab animals. They are allowed because it is admitted that animal tests are not relevant.

When asked if they agreed that animal experimentation can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans, 88% of doctors agreed.

Rats are 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer in humans. Flipping a coin would be more accurate.

According to animal tests lemon juice is deadly poison, but arsenic, hemlock and botulin are safe.

40% of patients suffer side effects as a result of prescription treatment.

Over 200, 000 medicines have been released most of which are now withdrawn. According to the World Health Organisation, 240 medicines are "essential".

Thousands of drugs passed safe in animals have been withdrawn or banned due to their effect on human health.

Aspirin fails animal tests, as do digitalis (heart drug), cancer treatments, insulin (causes animal birth defects), penicillin and other safe medicines. They would be banned if results from animal experimentation were accurate.

When the producers of thalidomide were taken to court, they were aquitted after numerous experts agreed animal tests could not be relied on for human medicine.

At least 450 methods exist with which we can replace animal experiments.

Morphine puts humans asleep but excites cats.

95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately disgarded as useless or dangerous to humans.

One is six patients in hospital are there because the drug they have taken had been passed safe for us on humans after animal tests.

Worldwide, at least 22 animals die every second in labs. In the UK one animal dies every five seconds.

The contraceptive pill causes blood clots in humans but it had the opposite effect in dogs.

We use aspirin for aches and pains. It causes birth defects mice, rabbits and rats.

Researchers refused to believe that benzene could cause cancer in humans because it failed to in animal tests.

Dogs failed to predict heart problems caused by the cardiovascular drugs encainide and flecainide, which led to an estimated 3, 000 deaths in the USA.

Heart by pass surgery was put on hold for years because it didn't work on dogs.

If we had relied on animal tests we would still believe that humans don't need vitamin C, that smoking doesn't cause cancer and alcohol doesn't cause liver damage.

It was denied for decades that asbestos caused disease in humans because it didn't in animals.

Polio researchers were mislead for years about how we catch the disease because they had experimented on monkeys.

As one researcher points out, "the ultimate dilemma with any animal model of human disease is that it can never reflect the human situation with complete accuracy."

 

Resources please...and ones that come from actual doctors and researchers not affliated with PeTA, ALF, or PCRM(which is a colleague of PeTA. Because when I was in college to become a Forensic Pathologist, all our information and resources suggested the opposite of the ones you are stating.

I love when bleeding hearts try to claim that medical animal testing is not beneficial. Your butt is alive today because every single advancement in medicine and surgery was done to animals before humans. The very first successful open heart surgeries were performed on rabbits. ALL veterenarians must dissect dead animals and perform surgeries on live(unconcious) animals before they are allowed to freely treat your pet.

Please. Oh BTW, your computer contains materials that are animal-derived.

It's one thing to be eat vegan, not wear fur, and be against cosmetic testing but to actually protest against things that save both human and animal lives and overlook the reality that 90% of the stuff in your home(and the home itself) contains animal-derived materials AND displaced millions of rodents, insects, and birds so your home could be built on their home...is just plain silly and it's people like you who make the animal advocate movement look like a bunch of hypocritical nutballs.

Frankly, I'm tired of being called a "Petard" in a loud voice whenever I'm handing out flyers protesting fur farming and dirty pet stores. Somehow my simple caring has been misconstrued as I want all the kids at St.Jude's Children's Research Hospital to die(so rats wont) and that I want to burn down dairy farms.

Thanks a heep.

 

Otter, everything you said is exactly how I feel.

Testing on animals has helped animals and people in thousands of ways. Like you said even the training the vets use to save our pets was rooted on testing animals. Even the medicine they they give to pets was tested earlier on animals to find proper dosage....

 

I also agree with Otter. Here is an interesting site about medical milestones made possible through animal research in the last century. last century
And as Cosmic Butterfly points out those of us with pets owe all advancements in vet medicine to animal research - some of which is fatal to the animals involved. I have ferrets and until fairly recently there was no approved rabies vaccine for pet ferrets. This meant even if you vaccinated using a dog or cat rabies vaccine if your ferret bit someone they were killed and tested for rabies. There was no legal quarantine because the research used to determine appropriate length of time for one is generally done while testing for vaccines. No there is a quarantine and an approved vaccine. Pet ferrets are no longer killed and tested for rabies (which they have always been highly unlikely to have anyway). This change was brought about because many ferrets were used in lab research to determine the effect of rabies on the species, shed time of the virus and effectiveness of the vaccine. Rabies has no cure and ferrets died as a result of this study without question. The same studies were done on dogs and cats for not only rabies but all of the other diseases which they are commonly vaccinated for.