Animal Testing - Is It Necessary?

An animation about the ethics of animal testing.

Created as part of the Digital Discovery project. For more information about this animation and the project visit www.oxtrust.org.uk/digitaldiscovery/

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[rainbowstargreengirl]

First of all i cant take any subject seriously when there are clay rats talking about it. Secondly, Do you realize that the alternative to anaimal testing is human testing, which would be absolutly hanious. A human life is worth much more than a rat, or any animals life.

[xxiRapeZombiezxx]

i love it i for one hate animal cruelty im sorry for those who disagree but i will not look my dog in a cage inject a bunch of chemicals in her body and see wat happens i have morals Hitler and his followers injected chemicals into pregnant Jewish women wombs and newborns to see the reaction Nazi germany is over and i hope one day this will to lets fight for a better world

[noratmedicine]

“Animal studies are done for legal reasons and not for scientific reasons. The predictive value of such studies for man is meaningless.”; - Dr James D. Gallagher; Director of Medical Research; Lederle Laboratories; Journal of the American Medical Association; March 14 1964.;

curedisease. net

[noratmedicine]

@TheArcherofire All of these claims have been responded to many times. re polio vaccine.. from Dr Sabin himself...

"... prevention was long delayed by the erroneous conception of the nature of the human disease based on misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys." Sabin, Albert, MD statement before the subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care, Committee on Veterans Affairs, House of Representatives, April 26, 1984 serial no. 98-48.

[TheArcherofire]

Between 1901 and 1910, Alexis Carrel, using experimental animals, performed

every feat and developed every technique known to vascular surgery today.

Unmodified or regular insulin was processed from porcine and bovine pancreas and was the only type of insulin available for clinical use until the mid-1930s More than 100,000 monkeys were killed in the course of developing the polio vaccines. One rhesus monkey, when killed, supplied sixty-five doses of vaccine.

[TheArcherofire]

Galvani dissected a frog at a table where he had been conducting experiments with static electricity. Galvani's assistant touched an exposed sciatic nerve of the frog with a metal scalpel, which had picked up a charge. At that moment, they saw sparks and the dead frog's leg kick as if in life. The observation made Galvani the first investigator to appreciate the relationship between electricity and life

[TheArcherofire]

Harvey went on to prove how the blood circulated in a circle by means of countless experiments initially done on serpents and fish: tying their veins and arteries in separate periods of time, Harvey noticed the modifications which occurred; indeed, as he tied the veins, the heart would become empty, while as he did the same to the arteries, the organ would swell up.

[noratmedicine]

@jedihunter176 Not all opposition to animal exp is animal rights, many doctors care about humans and oppose animal exp because it is not applicable to humans.

"The problem with animal carcinogenicity tests is not their lack of sensitivity for human carcinogens, but rather their lack of human specificity. A positive result has poor predictive value for humans." Knight, Bailey & Balcombe, British Medical Journal USA, Vol. 5, p477.2005

[noratmedicine]

@jedihunter176 "...there is no ideal animal model to extrapolate teratogenicity results to human exposure because of species sensitivity and species difference." Dr Lin, In Vitro Toxicology, vol 1.1987

2007

"We have learned well how to treat cancer in mice and rats but we still can’t cure people." Professor Colin Garner, quoted in Accelerator MS Is a Powerful New Tool, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Vol. 27, No. 15.

[noratmedicine]

@jedihunter176 Too big? How about just one word, the name of the advance or medicine you say is a result of animal experimentation. It is the exception for a mouse model to be right for humans and such knowledge is only gained retrospectively.1987

even primates are not accurate..."Drugs known to damage the human foetus are found to be safe in 70% of cases when tried on primates." Developmental Toxicology: Mechanisms and Risk, p313, McLachlan, Pratt, and Markert (Eds).