Is animal testing morally wrong?
Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from shampoos to new drugs to treat cancers. Antibiotics, HIV drugs, insulin and anaesthetics all rely on animal testing, and British law states that any new drug must be tested on at least two different species of live mammal.
Surely this can't be necessary? Animals have as much right to life as humans and modern technology must be able to provide an alternative.
Is it morally wrong to use animals, or is it difficult to ignore the fact that operations on them helped develop techniques such as organ transplants and open-heart surgery?
Do we need animal testing to fight against diseases and to advance medicine? Have your say.
Your comments
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Martin Freye from Bristol says:Oct 22, 12:07
Well, as a pre war child, I'm still here, thanks to animal testing. I recall the 70's when the barmy animal rights brigade was started by a Lecturer at Bristol University, Students being the most easily brainwashed as per Islamic nutcases. Fortunately, due to animal testing, most of these students still have a life and didn't die before reaching 5 years of age as 50% of Victorian children did.
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Ross harris from inside my mum says:Oct 22, 09:47
Animal testing is soo not wrong. they are a great way for testing out condoms. you know wether they still get the same feelings and they do love it. my dogs ass at the moment is soo saggy that it looks like a wizards sleeve. my wife has also been testing horse condoms so that way they wear it all the time and they do not get the female horse pregnant. my wife has been lucky so far as the horse has not blown his load inside her.
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leighton from scunthorpe says:Oct 22, 08:39
should we use humans instead? or perhaps old people that are a drain on society.
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Bungle from Rainbow says:Oct 21, 22:32
They should stop testing on animals &use scottish people instead.
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Gerry from Edinburgh says:Oct 21, 21:08
The concentration camps in Germany greatly advanced science and developed procedured which are still used today, yet nobody is complaining about that.
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