Animal Testing

Some companies that use test animals get the larger test subjects from Dog pounds sometimes from puppy mills and animal shelters. For smaller animals like Mice or rats I'm pretty sure they breed them their selves

1. There is now a cure for certain types of lymphoma. The drugs, protocols and treatment modalities were all tested thoroughly on animals (both animals with and animals without lymphoma) prior to starting human trials. In addition, similar protocols and drugs are now used to treat animals with lymphoma, successfully in many cases.

2. There are multiple classes of antibiotics that can be used to treat bacterial infections. Every antibiotic currently available was initially thoroughly tested on animals prior to entering human trials. A good number of these antibiotics are also used in veterinary medicine.

3. There is a vacciation for rabies, which now consists of 3 shots prior to exposure or 5 shots after exposure. Rabies used to be universally fatal if you were bit by a rabid animal; now you receive a series of 5 shots plus a high level of pre-formed antibodies and the prevention rate is above 90%. Also, canine rabies is now eradicated from the US due to using preventive vaccines in the domestic dog population - there are only the bat, raccoon and skunk varieties left.

4. Humans with coronary artery disease can now be treated via implantation of an expanding tube called a stent into the blocked artery to open the artery and maintain blood flow. These devices were first tested on animals and research medical doctors practiced the technique on animals prior to attempting the procedure in humans.

5. HIV/AIDS is now a manageable chronic disease in the United States rather than a rapidly progressive and fatal infection. All the drugs used to treat the symptoms of HIV/AIDS were thoroughly tested on animals prior to being given to humans.

6. The biochemical cascade of clotting is now relatively well understood, to the point that hemophilia can be controlled via medication. The clotting cascade was investigated in multiple animal models over decades to identify and clarify the various chemicals and molecules that interact to cause and prevent blood clots.

7. Studies of purebred animals have led to the identification of genes associated with major diseases present in both animals and humans, which has helped researchers identify genes associated with diseases in humans.

8. Behavorial studies of animals have led researchers to further understanding how early humans may have interacted and what could have given early humans the evolutionary advantage over other closely related hominid species.

9. Genetic testing of animals and complete genome sequencing has led to discoveries of how certain animals are related to each other and have furthered the understanding of recent and ongoing evolution.

10. Some animals are much more sensitive to certain chemical contaminants than humans, so testing these animals and observing their reactions to chemicals allows scientists to determine acceptable limits for human exposure to the chemical.

Yes, click on the 'Centre for alternatives to animal testing' link further down this page. There are sophisticated, non-animal test methods available today, which range from cell and tissue cultures to computerized "structure-activity relationship" models.

no. animal testing is not always accurate because the body structure of an animal is differnet than the body structer of a human being. Hence the results may not be the same.

It is not known how many animals get hurt during animal testing. Not all facilities that use animal testing make it public, Millions of animals are hurt world wide each year due to animal testing.

Because testing cosmetic products on animals is cruel to the animal, How would you like getting new products tested on you? you have no choice and the products may not be safe or may even hurt you and they don't care.

Animal testing is cruel, inhumane and unnecessary.

There are many ways for scientists to test product without abusing animals. Rats, rabbits, dogs and monkeys are just a few of the animals who get tested on. They live very unfortunate lives, caged up and tortured for the purpose of science.

These animals don't get to see daylight, and often times they are tattooed with a serial number as identification. When an animal is no longer fit for testing, they are often times killed, and very rarely rescued out to loving families.

When purchasing cosmetic items, make sure it is clearly marked "not tested on animals" or something of the sort. The only way to stop animal testing is to stop purchasing products that have been tested on animals.

There are several reasons why people are against animal testing. In the cosmetics industry people would test new cosmetics on animals before they tried them on humans. In order to see if the cosmetic had a negative effect it would have to be applied to the animal in an area that would show if there were an adverse reaction. The animal also has to be in a position where it cannot remove the product before there has been time for it to react with the animal.

So animals would be locked into apparatus that would not allow them to, for instance, rub their eyes if a new shampoo was being tested on them. Shampoo would be put into the animal's eye by the scientist and the eyes would be examined for reaction to the shampoo over a period of time and records would be kept. Animals used in experiments such as this would not, generally be kept alive after the experiment.

For some products there was a very controversial testing technique called LD50. In this experiment animals would be given a higher and higher dose of the substance until 50% of the animals had died (Lethal Dose 50%).

Some people say that human volunteers should be used instead of using animals who have no say in their involvement. Not of course for the LD50 type trials.

According to PETA.com Vichy does use animal testing for some of its products. And it is good to keep in mind that Vichy is owned by L'Oréal Paris, one of the biggest animal testing companies on the planet.

dogs guinea pigs hamsters birds rabbits pigs mice rats and much much more

The practice of animal testing dates back to the Greeks. Before applying surgical procedures to humans, animals were used to verify the method. Louis Pasteur induced anthrax in sheep proving his germ theory. Ivan Pavlov used dogs to demonstrate classical conditioning. Insulin was isolated in dogs. Antibiotics and a vaccine for leprosy was developed in armadillos. In 1996, Dolly the Sheep was the first mammal to be cloned.

Drug testing using animals became a significant part of the drug development process. To avoid new drugs from coming on the market and causing bad reactions, Congress passed a law in 1937 requiring the new drug to be tested on animals first.

Animals (one of which is mankind) are all regarded as equal. Testing is usually only for the benefit of the human being and harms, kills or injures other animals. If mankind is the only beneficiary then it should be tested (ethically) on human volunteers.

They should be treated with a little bit of care

it depends makeup on animals yes, but doctors also test drugs on animals that save human lives and the drugs don't always hurt the animals. If there is a law passed that affects one kind of testing it might affect them all. Humans will always put themselves before animals just like animals would do to us.

Animal testing helps to prevent the usage of humans for testing. Sometimes, an animal must die in order for its' level of health, or its' reaction to a treatment, to be assessed. Animals are tested for more products than we know, and a big reason for that is that humans' emotional responses often overrule our logic.

Unfortunately, yes. In a lot of countries, animal testing is illegal/banned but in many countries it is still carried on :( World Peace charities are trying to make it banned by 2015, which, although is quite a way away, it will eventually be stopped :)

probably around 600 billion dollaras at least because of sea turtles.

Animal testing exists because it allows people to test their products on living animals. That way, they can see how it might react on people. Since testing on people is considered unethical, they use animals instead.

Animal experimentation, while an emotive subject and considered by many to be abhorrent, particularly when conducted unnecessarily, is highly unlikely to lead to the extinction of any species, since laboratory animals usually need to be specially bred for this work and bear little relationship to that type of animal in the wild or in a domestic situation. Traditional purpose-bred lab animals such as white or hairless mice, for example, couldn't live in the wild, and don't do well as pets.

Experiments conducted on wild or domestic animals are more likely to be of a non-invasive nature, also unlikely to result in extinction.

Extinction of some species has been, and remains, a result of human intervention in a species' environment, for farming, housing, and so on, or of hunting, neither of which are conducted as legitimate experiments.

The closest example of animal experimentation leading to extinction would be scientific gathering of animals on the verge of extinction by being killed to provide examples of rare species for museums and scientific study. Thankfully this hasn't happened for a century or more, but in its day it was considered scientifically valid.

There are only two options given to people:

1) animal testing

2) human testing

So it is only fair that everyone should be for human testing since if you makeup or medicine then you should test for it.

But people are heartless pricks in the UK so some people in the UK are for the first option.

because some people don't want to get killed testing the stupid product, and also most people hate animals. Because very powerful financial interests need to test potentially dangerous products on some one largely for insurance reasons.

Go to www.peta.com and get the list of places tested on animals. Then, write them a letter, with about everyone you know. Also, call them and speak your mind, it's basicaly all that can be done unless you work unercover at proctor and gamble or something like that.

Extinct animals cannot die, as they are already nonliving.

Animals which would be made extinct cannot be tested on, as this would be against both national and international law everywhere.

Hence, the only possible correct answer would be zero (0).