Most people that believe that animal testing is the best way to find cures for human illness are not aware of the inapplicability of animal testing results to human physiology. Read on to learn why so many people are against this senseless torture of animals.
The John Hopkins Center for alternatives to Animal Testing stated that the Draize test does not adequately reflect the degree of irritancy in humans. The Lethal dose test shows us that the substance is toxic to animals but we do not know what that means for humans. The results of these tests can depend on age and sex of the animals, the experimental setting, and other variables. (www3.sympatico.html)
Only about 10% of laboratory experiments which work using animals have the same success in humans.
Over 50% of all drugs on the market have to be withdrawn or relabeled because they have side effects on humans.
Human clinical and epidemiological studies, cadavers, and computer simulators are more reliable, more precise, less expensive, and more humane than animal tests.
Cancer rates are 14% higher and cancer deaths are 5% higher today than when the "war on cancer" began in 1973, even though the National Cancer Institute has injected more than 400,000 chemicals into mice over the last three decades.
Many of the drugs that were tested on animals and proven safe caused serious reactions in humans. Click here to see the list.
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