animal testing help ?

Question

can any one tell me interesting facts about animal testing???

Answer 1

Interesting? How about appalling? Vile? Nauseating?



One of the most common tests is the Draize test, in which substances are placed in a rabbit's eye, and the resulting irritation, ulceration and blindness are studied. The eyes are fixed open with small staples, since blinking would expel the test substance. The animals are placed in a box which leaves only the head exposed, since if allowed the use of its limbs the "subjects" were found to claw out their own eyes. And yes, this test is still in common usage for cosmetics and household products, which is the reason a bunny icon is the symbol for products not tested on animals.



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Answer 3

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There are two main types of diabetes- type 1 diabetes in which the body does not produce insulin and type 2 diabetes in which the body does not produce enough insulin or the insulin that is produced does not work properly.



Some of the common symptoms of diabetes include fatigue, weight loss (even though you are eating more), excessive thirst, increased urination, cut and bruises that are slow to heal and blurred vision.



While there is no cure for diabetes, with your blood sugar level under control you can live a totally normal life. There are various natural remedies for diabetes that will help you control your blood sugar level.

Answer 4

Animal testing is a big issue, and it is up to you to research it and form your own opinions. I am against testing for cosmetics as that is unnecessary suffering, it is not right to hurt other creatures just so we can look good. However I am pro animal testing for medicines. All medicines have to be tested on animals before they are released to the public (it is important that we look for alternative methods but at the moment this technology is not possible/ not readily available), pretty much all breakthroughs in medicine will have involved animal testing at some point. I cannot be against animal testing as to be so would be a hypocrite. It is all very well for me to sit back and say that animal testing should be banned when I am healthy and so is everyone I care about but if I was to fall sick or someone I care for was to fall sick and the only solution was one that involved animal testing I know I would be more than willing to perform the experiments myself.

There are a lot of horror stories of things that go on in labs and you must take them with a pinch of salt, I reckon only believe what you can find photos, video for, and remember some videos may be staged. Peta are renowned for making false videos.

There are laws now concerning the well-being of lab animals and very strict criteria that have to be met. Experiments that happened in the past would now be banned, for example there was a psychologist called Harry Harlow who performed tests on rhesus monkeys. One of these tests involved putting a monkey as an infant into a small V shaped cage, with no way to look out and leave them alone in their for many months (he even named the cage The Pit of Despair!) after a while the monkeys were removed and obviously found to have serious emotional, psychological and social issues. This type of research would be banned nowadays, thank goodness. Obviously it would be best if there was no animal testing but we are not in the position to get rid of it just like that.

Answer 5

You devour Meat?... An Yummy hamburger or a delicious beef tendor loin?. i'm asking you because a mess of people communicate purely like you at the same time as munching hen lollipop. in case you do, then first element you want to do is to change right into a strict vegitarian. that can make a large difference. further: it really is not any longer about 'torture' or 'discomfort'. it really is about life one has to imagine. life has a more effective which skill. to discover it, purely imagine of your life. you're eliminating a persons' life to fulfill your favor (starvation subsequently) which will were absolutely fulfilled by utilizing somethingelse. i do not enroll in the stupid argument that it really is alright to devour the animals see you later as they don't struggle through with discomfort. by utilizing declaring so, we are only being hypocractical. what's the version between the 'life' of someone and the 'life' of a hen?

Answer 6

This guy wrote a book about animal testing and apparently, no doctor or scientist has ever been able to refute a single thing he has said in the book. It's definitely worth taking a look at, it's on my Christmas list for sure. Here's a presentation that shows some of the information in the book against animal experiments.



http://www.andrewknight.info/presentations/presentations/expts_alternatives.html



What people fail to understand is that drugs aren't brought to the market "Because" of animal testing, the products are merely being tested on the animals. If animal testing was replaced with alternatives, it wouldn't be the alternative that brought them to the market; merely the alternatives were the test subjects for the drugs themselves. Every single thing Daisy has mentioned that has been brought to the market "because" of animal testing could have been done so using testing on various alternatives. They would have been released regardless of animal testing, not because of it. They are not reliant on animals.

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Answer 8

There is nothing interesting about animal testing at all. We know that the animals used suffer needless pain, I try to buy goods that have not been tested on animals then I can sleep easy at night............

Answer 9

*nothing has ever been cured using animal testing



*most testing is unnecessary, and occurs because of intellectual property laws preventing free access to information so drug and chemical companies develop the same chemical but must test them individually



*often companies do not do the testing themselves, and they use testing companies Like Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) to do it for them. HLS (the largest company of it's type in the world) has been caught out abusing animals well beyond the requirements of testing the product, for example in their puppy lab in the UK hidden camera footage shows the lab techs punching puppies because they won't hold still to be jabbed with a needle (warning, graphic): http://www.youtube.com/user/SHACtv?blend=14&ob=5#p/u/0/JGLQnBwlCJg



*Peter Singer argued in "Practical Ethics" that it would be ethically more logical to use disabled human babies who are incapable of suffering due to severe brain damage than animals which clearly experience suffering. This is impractical unless the babies are purpose bred (as are the animals) since that way genetic influences are controlled for, but the legal reason it is not done is because a disabled human who is completely unconscious and has no chance of recovery or improvement is valued more highly than a member of any other species in the world. In terms of the ethics of this situation, it is completely illogical and highlights the shaky foundation that the idea we "need" to test on animals rests on.



*It is in the interests of medical research to not cure cancer, since if one private research organisation develops a treatment then all the others miss out on the funding they currently receive. So while it is of most benefit for each organisation to be the one to find a cure, it benefits them all most to never find one.



*It is likely that in the future type 1 diabetes and possibly some cancers will be cured by animal research, diabetes in particular as the non-functional pancreatic cells (called islets of langerhans) just need to be transplanted with functional ones and the individual can then produce their own insulin. For some reason it is harder to achieve than it sounds, but to me it seems like it is something that can be done and with all the money being poured into diabetes research it will inevitably occur at some stage. I think there is a group which is on the verge of curing malaria right now, I saw a request for volunteers to become infected with the promise of a cure from an Australian university as part of their human trials just two days ago.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

Interesting facts:

-all medicines are by law tested on animals including humans before being allowed to be sold to the general public

-because of the "it's not my fault so I need to sue someone" mentality, companies test on animals to avoid frivolous lawsuits by stupid and greedy consumers. If frivolous lawsuits against companies were not so common, animal testing would significantly decrease.

-while anti vivisectionists will consistently single out the few medicines that failed even after intensive animal testing, they will suffer amnesia when it comes to the hundreds of thousands of pharmaceuticals that were successful and the untold number of human lives saved (including their own) because of it.

- animal rights activists are always against the practices of animal testing drug companies UNTIL they need to use those drugs to survive. Then come the convenient excuse they are famous for as to why they used those drugs or subjected themselves to an animal tested medical procedure (like Ingrid Newkirk of PETA who said " I used and continue to use those drugs because I need to live longer in order to fulfill with my destiny of protecting animals)

- many of the so called anti animal testing vegetarians and vegans that post on this section eat manufactured foods (like fake meats and such) that were tested by the FDA on animals before they were deemed safe for human consumption. Of particular note is a "vegan anarchist"( one who always tags his post with "animals are not property") who brags that he does not use and has never used products that were tested on animals. This same idiot also bragged that he owns a lot of guns for personal protection against the government and does a lot of target shooting. . Of course he is ignorant of the fact that during development all guns and bullets are tested on live animal targets (usually goats and pigs).



Animal testing is not pretty to be sure. It is arguably cruel and inhumane. But unless people can come up with better and more viable alternatives, then it is still necessary especially in the medical industry.



Note: someone might point to the PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) as arguing against medical animal testing. Note that less than 4% of the PCRM members ar actually physicians and scientists. The 96% or so are just plain animal rights vegetarians.

Answer 12

Daisy is right.

animal testing has lead to understanding and breakthroughs for both human and animal, physiology, genetics, disease, behavior, etc.



http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/about_research/myths_and_facts

http://www.pro-test.org.uk/index.php

http://www.animalresearch.info/en/science/whyanimals

Answer 13

Virtually every major medical breakthrough that you and your family benefit from today was made with the use of animal testing.



"Smallpox (cow): The vaccinia vaccine against smallpox was derived from the cowpox virus used by Edward Jenner following his observation that farm workers who contracted cowpox were protected against smallpox - It has now been eradicated from earth. Polio has been eradicated from North America and people in countries all over the world are being successfully treated (mouse and monkey). Insulin is now able to help control diabetes (dog, fish). There are vaccines for tetanus (horse), rubella (monkey), anthrax (sheep), and rabies (dog, rabbit).



Animal testing has also led to advances in our knowledge that may help us develop additional cures, including an understanding of the Malaria lifecycle (pigeon), tuberculosis (cow, sheep), Typhus (guinea pig, rat, mouse), and the function of neurons (cat, dog). Vivisection was also crucial in the discovery of anti-blood-clotting drugs for the treatment of haemophilia (cat), penicillin (mouse), open heart surgery and cardiac pacemakers (dog), lithium (rat, guinea pig), treatment for leprosy (armadillo), organ transplantations (dog, sheep, cow, pig), laproscopic surgical techniques (pig), and a drug for AIDS treatment (monkey)."



PETA Vice President Mary Jo Sweetman is an insulin dependent diabetic. Every day she tests her blood (test developed using animals) and gives herself insulin shots (insulin made from animals). Do you find that hypocritical since PETA is against animal testing? I do.