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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Your totally right, that is your choice and I am ok with it. What I am not ok with is inhumane treatment in slaughterhouses, watching pigs hung up and gutted alive while they swing and suffer among other sufferings that other animals go through. Anyone who thinks different go ahead and youtube a video of a slaughterhouse, there are plenty. Even worse is animals being used for medical experiments, not only is the animal put through severe trauma but most of the times the experiment fails as we are different species. If we need to move forward in medicine for cures and I think we do then why not use death row inmates or multiple life sentence criminals? You would get better results and we would not have to pay to feed criminals who have chosen that path and are no longer a use to society.
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When you say things like this you are only supporting the criticism of PETA and other strident animal activists that you care about animals more than people.
That statement shows your complete ignorance to medical testing on animals. If it wasn't for medical testing on animals there is good chance you would be dead. There is a reason that our life expectancy is no longer 35 years old and that reason is because of modern medicine. Modern medicine uses animal testing. There is no way that modern medicine would have been able to achieve what it has achieved and what it will achieve without animal testing.
You may think it's ugly, but it's the best thing we got. Computer testing is in it's infancy and cannot achieve the same results as animal testing. It may one day, but it can't now, anything you've heard to the contrary is spin. If they could do it, they would be. Animal testing is the only way we can prolong the lives of our race, humans. There are very strict guidelines for animal testing. They don't let any mad scientist do it and it has to be worth while. If you want to abolish animal testing then you clearly value animals more than humans.
I couldn't care less if you don't want to eat animals, that is your choice. But saying we should stop animal testing for medical purposes is asinine. Unless you ok with living to a maximum age of 35, having most of your siblings dead, having a good chance that your mother died giving birth to you, risking death from minor injuries and aliments, and ensuring death from any severe injury or aliment then perhaps you should have been born anytime during or before the dark ages, that is if you survive from many of the common diseases that plagued societies throughout the ages that we have cures and treatments for now. Your choice.