Animals in Medical Research

[Major_Grooves]

An online petition has been launched to allow people to register their support for the use of animals in essential medical and vetinary research.

If you support this, you can sign the petition here

You can also read my vague efforts to get involved in defending medical research here.
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[Flip]

The way I see it... Kill a few animals now and it may save our children.

I 'signed' it.

[strawberry]

Whilst it is certainly not a petition I would wish to sign, it is good to see people trying to voice their opinions in this area in a calm and rational manner. Certainly makes a pleasant change from the usual rhetoric spouted from all sides which does little to further any of the causes they propose to advocate.
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[zaknafien]

Signed.
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I work for the biggest drug company in Europe and we had some demonstrators outside our office the other day. What a bunch of clueless morons they were.

I wonder if they had diabetes would they turn down insulin and go blind, or if one of thier family had cancer would they be disgusted if the family member used anticancer drugs to save their life?

If the stupid tossers actually had a brain cell between them they could find a useful cause to protest against. While I don't really agree with animal testing it's clearly obvious that it's a necessary evil whose benefits far outweigh it's drawbacks.

[Spiral]

Most animal testing (99%) is done within strict guidelines to limit any sort of cruelty/stress the animals will go through.

More worrying is the amount of animal cruelty done by evil fuckers in the general public.

Animal activists would do a better job of tracking these people down and giving them a good kicking that standing outside some drug companys office for a couple of days protesting.
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[Itchy]

[Dazbo666]

[dibbster]

Would these people prefer that drugs weren't tested properly or more testing was done on people?

I doubt it, look at the pandemonium which followed that recent leukemia drug trial with the people who ended up in intensive care.

I don't have a problem with essential animal testing and believe it should be used when we haven't got a more effective 'test tube' alternative.
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Signed it
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[strawberry]

[Itchy]

[Itchy]

[Danny]

Signed.

I saw a packet of cat food once that said "not tested on animals".

[zaknafien]

[Mockey]

[quote="dibbster"]Would these people prefer that drugs weren't tested properly or more testing was done on people?

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People who subscribe to the 'dark green' way of life believe that all living things have moral worth i.e A human life has the same value as that of an animal or a tree. So in answer to this question, No, these people do not necessarily wish to see more human testing done, the problem they have with animal testing is with humans treating animals lives like they are inferior to their own.
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[zaknafien]

[Mockey]

[zaknafien]

[byke95]

[colin1]

Its possible to believe animal testing is cruel, if you believe that animals slaughtered for meat live happy lives until they have a relatively painless death.

In fact I believe that, but i also think animal testing is necessary, so Im not gonna lose any sleep about it, or want it to be stopped
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[tribal_tiger]

I worked at GSK up till Feb this year.

We had animal protesters in leather coats outside our site!!! They were all posh kids from around the area.

Soon bloody ran when 3 cop cars and a helicopter turned up though!!!

I feel it's something that needs to be done for drug research. make up and stuff i couldn't give an arse about, but to know that a cure for a lethal illness could be missed cos a guy in a white coat was mean to a bunny....
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[8316]

Signed
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