How come using animals for testing is unethical?

When there is a debate about whether testing drugs on animals is ethical, one of the main arguments proponents use is that it has helped alleviate the suffering of people. ... They concluded that many of these instances could have been eliminated with more human-specific drug testing. read more

We can decrease the use in health research, we can avoid using it for research in beauty products off course, but one thing we cannot deny: We are alive and healthy because of research and animal testing, if you want to deny this, you should live in the forest and eat roots away from civilisation :)). read more

As Sir Paul McCartney said in an interview with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), "Sometimes people place too much faith in people in white lab coats and assume that there's a need for animal testing just because it has been going on for so long. read more

• Animal experimentation is an inherently unethical practice, and you do not want your tax dollars used to support it. • Funding for biomedical research should be redirected into the use of epidemiological, clinical, in vitro, and computer-modeling studies instead of cruel and crude experiments on animals. read more

When there is a debate about whether testing drugs on animals is ethical, one of the main arguments proponents use is that it has helped alleviate the suffering of people read more

Facts and FiguresUnited States (2014)(1,2) 1 million animals used in experiments (excluding rats, mice, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and agricultural read more