: : Animal testing is 100% bad. An animal's immune system is different from a human's. So when you find a cure for the animals, it is might not work on humans, so the reasearch was all for nothing, and it makes the poor animals suffer!: johnnyFBI-would you rather have the diseases and treatments tested on you, or a rat?
DADDIO: Why are those the only two choices? What if I said I'd rather just not get diseases? How about treatments that don't require testing of any kind such as eating right and living healthy life styles? How about we stop receiving treatments for diseases we don't have, for misdiagnosed diseases, for diseases created by the treatments themselves - these are epidemics within the medical profession. Wouldn't it have been more intelligent and evolved to pursue these avenues toward health before we institutionalized the horrible torture of millions of sensitive organisms that we have to share the Earth with? We're creating our own health problems then demanding that the rest of the animal kingdom let us mindlessly torture it to help us invent more synthetic, symptomatic solutions. ARE WE NO BETTER THAN THIS? If we're not then I say we deserve whatever doom awaits us.
P.S. It makes me indescibably sad to read such a mindless and heartless post like the one I'm responding to, especially when I know that this represents the profound shallowness of a great many people.
It seems there is nothing you can say to someone who has made up their mind that nothing counts in the universe except themselves and the expedient implementation of whatever juvenile, short-sited, destructive solutions present themselves to them.
It seems that about two thirds of us are little more than a teary-eyed, rage filled 6 year old pounding his fist on the table demanding his ice cream before dinner. "I WANT MY ICECREAM! NOOOOWW!!!" "I've got heart disease because I can't learn to eat right and I want that pig's heart in my chest NOOOOWWWW!!!!"
My god, what the hell are we becoming? This is really scary. Somebody hold me, seriously.
