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I completely agree with you!

I think some of you are failing to comprehend the reality of this situation. Many, MANY life-saving procedures, medicines, devices, preventatives, and other such things have come from animal testing. Because of animal testing, we've prolonged our quality of life to an age people only dreamed of in centuries past. Sure, some of you maybe thinking it's rather selfish to exploit animals for our own quality of life, but if that were true... would you be here right now?

Geneticists have discovered many things about our own DNA by studying the changes of mutations in rats as well as humans. Rats begin the process, and when successful and determined to be safe on humans, human testing begins. You can't just go on testing some unknown substance on humans first; no one would volunteer and then where would we be? Contrary to what you may think, rat DNA has many shared traits to our own.

Doctors have done testing on the embryos of chicks, rats, frogs, and other animals to improve human development. Without it, we would have more newborn deaths and almost no preventative medicine or procedures for birth defects. Because of the research done by geneticists and embryologists, parents can now tell if their child will be born retarded before it is even born. Amazing, don't you think?

Pigs are essential to human life in many things, including skin grafting for serious burns and insulin for diabetics.

I could go on about how much I care for animals over humans, but that's another topic. While I may not agree entirely on animal testing, one has to understand why it's necessary.

I do not agree with cosmetic testing; the testing of products that have already been tested; and the completely unnecessary over-testing of products. For example, cigarette companies will force chimps to smoke several cigarettes at once. This is completely unrealistic and bears no accurate or useful scientific data. One group did a study on chimps using an amount of LSD that no normal human would even think about touching, and then watched it as it went mad around its own cage, having no clue as to what was going on, or the mental capacity to know what it just took, unlike its human counterparts, who know what they're getting into.

Testing bleach and shampoos over and over and over again, yielding the same results is redundant and unnecessary. However, I'm aware it's to prevent lawsuits as sometimes batches of a product get messed up along the assembly line. I believe after so many years of the same testing, a suitable, non-living substitute would do just fine.

Testing on criminals is completely unrealistic and totally immoral. I don't understand how people can be so serious when suggesting such an atrocity. I can only hope you are just being ignorant of the situation.

Let's be realistic here. We NEED animal testing. Even if we don't want to admit it, we;d be dead with out these tests. Little animals, rats for example, multiply extremely fast and they share many things in common with us, so of course they'd be ideal to test on.

But why test things over and over again. Cosmetics? Drugs? Why do we even need the stuff. Chap stick came in handy, but make-up? Killing animals to make stuff that covers up our true selves is appalling if you ask me. Monkeys shouldn't smoke, neither should humans. Why do we need new ways to kill ourselves faster? Using drugs to make us feel better, it's complete rubish. You'd feel better with clean air in your lungs if you ask me!

I think humans just need to step down a bit.

I don't believe in animal testing.
I believe that animals should be free rather then in cages.
Besides, do we really have to test on make up or accesories that are all natural or organic? neutral
Peace and Love,
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I think animal testing should only be used for testing new medical procedures and medicines. Testing other products on animals such as deodorant and makeup is completely pointless. We could test those on humans without dying from it.

I don't like animal testing. Animals are living things! They should like live freely, without humans testing on them! Animals have feelings too! If I am a politician, I would say that if animals are killed or suffered by humans illegally, I will punish them. It is not fair that if humans are killed, FBI or whatever just investigate their cause of death and not animals! IT IS NOT FAIR!!

Volunteers would work too, they'll know whats required to happen and then they won't get mad. Plus, saving money? Is that what people care about these days? People have hearts, not to care about that and actually ask people if they are okay to volunteer