Technically humans are animals, so whats the big difference?
• What about the argument that animal experimentation is indispensable as our only model of intact metabolic systems? • How can we know that medicines will not cause birth defects without testing them on animals? • Didn’t the polio vaccine come from animal experimentation? • Didn’t penicillin come from animal experimentation? • Weren’t lab animals responsible for the discovery of diabetes and development of insulin? • How will we combat AIDS without animal experimentation? • If not with animals, how can we ever hope to cure cancer? • Didn’t all Nobel Prize winners in Medicine and Physiology experiment on animals? • Don’t all doctors support the concept of animal experimentation? • Don’t surgeons train on animals before operating on humans? • How did animal experimentation become so established to begin with? • Why does animal experimentation continue? • Aren’t the 3Rs (“Reduce, Refine and Replace”) the best way to phase out animal experiments?
