Medical animal testing is to science as pedophilia is to love. While the definition of love remains always constant, science by definition needs to progress, evolve to meet the needs and standards of it's time. Medical animal testing no longer meets any scientific basis, purpose or progress. It's anti-science, anti progress.It is just income, jobs for unethical individuals of medicine and science. It is not ethical for human to torture and kill animals for purposes that are not necessary. Honestly, it is not ethical to do so in any case or for any purpose and medical animal testing is no exception. If we are a society and world that condemns the torture, abuse and suffering of animals than there is no ethical reason to allow medical animal testing for that is exactly what it is as well as being an ignorant, lazy,crude lie. After years of animal testing what has it evolved into? It is now either pharmaceutical testing or really ridiculous testing for a variety of illnesses that have no real scientific merit or human medical application. It is time for the scientific community to realize this, to say halt and put an end to it. It is serving no scientific function. It merely panders to “Big Pharma”, funding and its needs to seem scientific. Drugs do not cure us, eating a healthy diet , having healthy habits and understanding the relationship of these things to our health does. To cure humans study what humans do. Pay attention to those habits and lifestyles that cure and aid health. This is where science is at and really should be. If the standard in which testing is done is purely scientific than animal research makes no sense. All medication is tested on humans as the final step. The animal testing phase is just not necessary with advances in scientific understanding and information. The debate is like so many AR debates, futile in terms of the logic in use. Medical research is an industry and a part of an industry that does not welcome progress or genuine science. It's all about money, pride and the questionable science of industrialized medicine and medical care. Animal testing is their big smoke screen, the place where all scientific questions and logic end and dies. Medical research needs to commit to an ethical standard. This would involve a ban on animal testing. Medical animal testing is just a primitive, pioneer form of medical testing. Many alternates are available, ones that are reliable, more cost efficient and humane. The elimination of animal testing would force medical researcher to explore new ways of thinking, new avenues of thought. It is how science will and must evolve.The truth is medical research using animal could be banned tomorrow without affecting negatively the health and well being of humans. Medical researchers always talk about the millions of human lives saved from suffering and death as a result of testing on animals. They do not talk about the extreme suffering and death of those animal test subjects or that alternatives are possible and available or that animal research is only one step in testing and one that has been routinely discredited by numerous involved reputable sources. In this case as in all, the truth is always the whole truth and that is rarely if ever reported by those involved in the necessarily shady world of medical animal testing. It is a truth that is sad, shameful and until it is told animals will, by the millions, continue to suffer and die locked in barren cages, subjected to horrific medical procedures all at the mercy of an industry that cannot care and with its lies and false reasoning keeps the world unable to care as well. It is time to end this horror and shame. The truth will be told and for the sake of these unfortunate living beings, the sooner the better. BM
