Finding a Cure Using Animals

[AnimalAvenger]

What's your opinion on finding cures using animals? I find this extremely controversial, and I'm a bit undecided myself.

Anyways, I posted this on another forum a while ago, and I think I'll go with this:

I don't believe in testing shampoos, make-up, and stuff like that, because we don't even need a new shampoo or anything. That is why it is my opinion that we should boycott stuff tested on animals. There is make-up and stuff not tested on animals, though it's a bit hard to find which are truly not tested on animals. Also, there are alternatives to testing.

You're probably going to call me heartless and a bunch of other crap, but I also think we don't need a cure for things like diabetes, AIDS, etc. Without such diseases, our species will become even more over-populated. Disease is a part of life, whether you like it or not, and if we had a cure for many things that we're trying to get a cure for, we'd be way worse off as a whole. You're probably about to say, "But what if it were YOU who was about to die?" Honestly, I'd rather die. It's just way too selfish and is harmful for both animals AND humans, because, like I said before, if we had a cure for even half of the stuff we're trying to get a cure for, we'd be WAY over-populated.

Someone actually called my beliefs "Draconian" on that forum. Was that a bit harsh, or is it just me?

[Linn]

I think you know where I stand on this. ^^

I think using them at all is... wrong. There's so many alternatives now that there's no excuse, and really, you're right. We don't need all these cures.

Plus, using animals to help our species is putting out species above any other. And in my opinion, we're the worst species on the planet.

[dynastygal]

If you want a cure for something, test it on your own species. Thousands of drugs every year get rejected after failing in human trials. Animals are not exactly like humans anatomically, we may have similarities, but on a microscopic, dna etc level we are not the same, just like no two humans or two animals are the same.

[ldgtwty]

Yea thats stupid their testing on animals an they want us 2 use it,Then they should test it on US

[Bhuvana]

Couldn't agree with y'all more. First off, their bodies work and react differently then a humans. Therefore, something they have no negative reaction to, could kill us. Second off, I agree with the part about us not needing a cure. People think deer and mice are over-populated and need to be hunted down, but how come we don't have a hunting season for humans then? We are the most over-populated species of animal on earth! I don't agree with using an animal for anything but to love and nurture.

[Linn]

^^^
Agreed.
I actually did my bioethics research paper on animal experimentation last year and I learned that penicillin is lethal to animals, but helps us.
There's also several other drugs that were cleared on animals, but killed a lot of people or made a lot of people sick when it was marketed. 98% matching DNA isn't 100%.

Plus, the Draize tests are really cruel. Pouring substances in a rabbit's eye and seeing what happens? Not. Okay.

That's why I refuse to touch anything animal tested.

[Bhuvana]

With you all the way!