How do you feel about the current legislation that says companies (biomedical) must test their products on animals before they can be put out on the market?
It’s a bit of a scam. Because different species react differently, animal tests can produce whatever results are wanted by the company doing the testing — they just have to pick the right “model” or animal that doesn’t react badly. Then, they can proceed to human tests (which would not be necessary if animals were good “models”) and see if humans make it through. However, the human tests cannot test for genetic defects or long-term problems caused by the new drugs, due to their short nature (a week or so.) As a result, 50% of all drugs approved by the FDA after the human testing end up to have serious side effects, after they have been tested on the general population. You can’t have animal experimentation without human experimentation.. If I had to take a drug, I wouldn’t want to unless it had been tested extensively on the human population for a few decades. I cannot trust the drug system.
