: DO YOU BELIVE ANIMAL TESTINTG IS FOR THE BETTER OR FOR THE WORSE?? IN OTHER WORDS, IS ANIMAL TESTING GOOD OR BAD, IT'S A YES OR NO QUESTION. THANKS TO ALL WHO REPLY, IT'S FOR MY SCHOOL PROJECT.With respect, this is a *TERRIBLE* way to go about finding out if animal tests work or not!! What the majority think is NEVER a scientific way to find out the truth. If you asked most 5 year olds "do you believe in Santa Claus?" most of them would say "yes" and think you mad if you thought otherwise. Does their majority opinion reflect the truth? Or is it the product of misinformation?
Consider: if the media censors an issue heavily, and if most people form their opinions from what they get from the media - then are they really informed? Certainly not. They only know what the media has allowed them to know.
Advertising revenue as well as outright ownership of commercial media networks by those who profit from the pharmaceutical and animal research industry suppresses scientific anti-vivisectionist information from public view.
Most people follow what other people think. I used to believe totally in animal testing - everything I'd been supplied with by my university lecturers and animal rights groups I contacted said it was "necessary".
Then I stumbled across I swiss group called CIVIS and related groups in the U.S. called "SUPRESS (now known as "the nature of wellness") and Australian group CAMPAIGN AGAINST FRAUDULENT MEDICAL RESEARCH (CAFMR) (go to the "medical research" section) http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr
They provide information from scientists, doctors, former-animal researchers and lay students which shatters any of the pro-animal research arguments of the pharmaceutical industyry and animal rights movement.
It may seem odd that I include the "animal rights movement" as pro-animal research but most of them are. And when you find out about the dubious connections of many of them to the pharmaceticual industry it's no wonder. For instance, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), which puts forward ethical wishy-washy (easily defeated) arguments against animal research has holdings in the following companies that do extensive animal testing:
“HSUS has substantial holdings in the following companies which do toxicology testing and/or experiments on animals: DuPont, Eastman Kodak, Exxon, General Motors, IBM, Mobil, Occidental Petroleum, Proctor & Gamble, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of Indiana and Union Carbide” (CIVIS International Foundation Report No. 9 1990 page 7).
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As scientific anti-vivisectionists and human health advocates know, all these companies rely on animal testing to provide the illusion - the facade - that their products are “safe” for human use. Meanwhile the number of people killed and injured by the drugs and chemicals found to be “safe” through worthless animal-tests skyrockets.
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