The Truth About Animal Testing
Wasteful and Unreliable
Each year, around the world, millions of birds, cats, dogs,
farmed animals, fish, mice, monkeys, rats, rabbits, and
other domestic and wild animals are subjected to a wide
variety of experiments in the name of biology, psychology,
biochemistry, physiology, genetic manipulation, and bio-warfare.
Even animal research that is carried out for “medical purposes” tends to be
irrelevant to human health. A PETA investigation revealed the grotesque
abuse of animals in laboratories at Columbia University, where baboons were
subjected to invasive surgeries and left to suffer and die in their cages without
any painkillers, and monkeys were forced to endure surgical procedures in
which metal pipes were implanted into their skulls for the sole purpose of
inducing stress to study the connection between stress and women’s
menstrual cycles.
http://www.columbiacruelty.com/default.aspx
- It is a common misconception that most tests on
animals are carried out with the aim of finding a
cure for cancer, AIDS, or other devastating
human diseases. Surveys clearly show that the
public accepts animal experimentation only
because it is believed to be necessary for
medical progress.
But according to some national statistics, nearly
two-thirds of all animal research has little or
nothing to do with curing human diseases or
advancing human medicine. The reality is that
much of this research is little more than curiosity-
driven cruelty.
Wasteful and Unreliable
Each year, around the world, millions of birds, cats, dogs,
farmed animals, fish, mice, monkeys, rats, rabbits, and
other domestic and wild animals are subjected to a wide
variety of experiments in the name of biology, psychology,
biochemistry, physiology, genetic manipulation, and bio-warfare.
Even animal research that is carried out for “medical purposes” tends to be
irrelevant to human health. A PETA investigation revealed the grotesque
abuse of animals in laboratories at Columbia University, where baboons were
subjected to invasive surgeries and left to suffer and die in their cages without
any painkillers, and monkeys were forced to endure surgical procedures in
which metal pipes were implanted into their skulls for the sole purpose of
inducing stress to study the connection between stress and women’s
menstrual cycles.
http://www.columbiacruelty.com/default.aspx
"The Food & Drug Administration recently reported that of all drugs that test safe and effective in animal tests, 92 percent are found to be either unsafe or ineffective in humans." Dr. Richard Klausner, former director of the National Cancer Institute, stated: "The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn't work on humans." http://www.imforanimals.com/articles-animal-testing-facts.html Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine states animal testing is wasteful, ineffective, and unrelated to human disease, not to mention unethical. Many other highly regarded schools, etc have stopped animal testing realizing that the tests are just not reliable!!! http://www.pcrm.org/ "A new report published in the British Medical Journal finds that using animals for drug trials often yields inaccurate results."
Institutes of Health"realizing it is ineffective and wasteful. Published in the journal SCIENCE. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-02-14-animal-tests_N.htm
is available to support this view. - British Medical Journal
clinical research. Given this, and because the public accepts animal research only on the assumption that it benefits humans, the clinical relevance of animal experiments needs urgent clarification." (Researchers keep doing animal testing because they get more money in grants if they do, not because they get good results or because the tests are successful.) http://www.bmj.com/content/328/7438/514.extract |
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- "Currently, 9 out of 10 experimental drugs fail in clinical studies because we cannot accurately predict how they will behave in people based on laboratory
and animal studies."
Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health & Human Services, U.S. Department of HHS (Food & Drug Admin. press release, FDA Issues Advice to Make Earliest Stages
of Clinical Drug Development More Efficient, 1/12/2006)
2000-2004: Anti-inflammatory VIOXX caused 320,000 serious heart problems and 140,000 deaths worldwide, yet was not only safe but protective against
heart problems in several different animal studies.
- Other banned drugs which tested safe for animals that ultimately killed or injured people:
- AVANDIA (rosiglitazone maleate)
BAYCOL (cerivastatin)
BEXTRA (valdecoxib)
DEXATRIM (phenylpropanolamine)
FEN PHEN (dexfenfluramine) (phentermine)
LOTRONEX (alosetron)
PONDIMIN (fenfluramine)
PROPULSID (cisapride)
REDUX (dexfenfluramine)
REZULIN (troglitazone)
- *Incomplete list (by a lot!)
- "More than 3.6 million tests were carried out on animals in Britain last year. There has been growing concern from within the scientific community at the
number of animal research studies that are never published due to unimportant results or poor experimental design."
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/drug-cosmetics-firms-back-plan-to-end-animal-testing_100466550.html
- If humans have relied on the effects of penicillin on mice we would have never discovered its benefits, since penicillin kills mice. What about strychnine that
kills humans but has no effect on monkeys? Aspirin is good for humans but kills cats. There are literally hundreds of examples such as these - animals react
differently than humans!
- The first HUMAN who takes the drug, uses the hairspray, takes the treatment - the are the TRUE RESEARCH SUBJECTS, whether they like it or not. No
animal study will tell us how YOU will react.
- "...there are serious scientific and health issues involved as well. Animal experimentation has led us down countless scientific dead ends, while detracting
attention and funds from more applicable scientific techniques. In reality, animal research never guarantees that medications and other products will be safe
and effective for humans. All drugs that have been pulled off the market because they caused severe illness or death in human patients were previously
tested on other animals.
The practice of animal experimentation and testing continues not because it is the most accurate or reliable means of research, but rather because of
tradition, peer pressure, and enormous promotion from those with strong vested interests."
http://www.uga.edu/sos/experiments.html
- "Why, then, do researchers continue to conduct and defend animal experiments in light of insurmountable evidence, even from within the scientific
community, that it provides meaningless results? The answers are many and varied, but they all lead down the same path: money.
Despite the fact that animal experimentation has been shown to be a flawed methodology, animal research continues because it is in the best financial
interests of scientists, as well as a number of other entities. These entities include universities, regulation bureaucrats, pharmaceutical companies, scientific
journals, animal breeders, lawyers and even the news media. All of them profit, either directly or indirectly, from animal research, and are therefore deeply
committed to maintaining the status quo."
http://www.navs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ain_sci_defend
"According to many scientists, the best hope for the prevention or cure of many diseases is relevant and progressive nonanimal research methods, such as
in vitro cell and tissue cultures, microfluidic circuits, computer modeling, microdosing, and epidemiological studies. This knowledge, as well as ethical
considerations for animals, has led many people to be concerned about the continued use of ineffective and outdated animal methods in medical research."
http://www.humaneseal.org/
- "There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to
burning at the stake in the name of religion."
Henry J. Bigelow, M.D.
- "I abhor vivisection.
It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished.
I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such
barbarism and cruelty."
Dr. Charles Mayo, Mayo Clinic
- "You do not settle whether an experiment is justified or not by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and
useless experiments, but between barbarous and civilized behavior. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it
does so at the expense of human character."
George Bernard Shaw
"...many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and
animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year."
Dr. Vernon Coleman, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK.
- "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being"
Abraham Lincoln
"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul."
Mahatma Gandhi
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