[Livia]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Because we cannot test on humans..next best thing.



I agree that the brain is not exactly the same and we don't quite know how our brains work.



The only other way is to test on humans, which would never happen. Yeah its fine for testing for flu cures and such (I was going to do that flucamp thing at one stage, partly for the cash and partly to actually help science develop), but it would never be allowed to happen for anything more serious. And we will never advance medically without a way to test potential cures. its a shame that dead people cannot be used for stuff like this really, I know cadavers are used in some stuff, but for brain issues surely they would have to be alive? IDK, I am not a scientist.



No idea, but I would like to see more checks being made on living conditions of animals both used for testing and used for food.



Surely this goes for eating meat too really. As awful as it sounds, a pet is an animal you actually know and like (generally). Animals for meat/testing are just random animals that its fairly easy to just put out of your mind


Yup. Its depressing really thinking about it properly.

Animals bred for meat, slaughtered and sold is not the same thing as putting an animal, a completely defenceless animal bred for the sole purpose of scientific tests. I'm not posting pictures here, but you must have seen some of the appalling stuff they do to animals? Their agony lasts until they're finally killed.

And yes, there are other ways of testing, rather than animal testing. I don't believe most scientists actually like torturing animals and there's a significant push from Scientists all over the world who are using other methods and developing other methods. For instance, in vitro tests using human cell and tissue cultures, computer models and simulations, stem cell and genetic testing, non-invasive imaging techniques such as MRIs and CT Scans and also
micro-dosing, giving people really small quantities of a drug to see what the effects are at a cellular level.

I truly believe that in a few decades time people will be appalled at what we used to do to animals in the name of science.