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Should animal testing be allowed

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Should animal testing be allowed

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My opinion on this matter is tht animal testing should b allowed for pharmaceutical and medical uses but not cosmetics.

wots ur view.

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Originally posted by trawets113
Yes.
I fully believe anything they're going to use on me should be used on animals first.

In fact, I think we should use criminals, pro-lifers and third-world country residents for testing as well.
Just to be absolutely sure that I don't get a skin rash when I put on my after-shave.

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Bit of a selfish view isnt tht.

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Animal testing should definitely be allowed in some cases. What those cases are is something I am unsure about.

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It makes sense to use animals for testing, but as ATY says, what is and isn't acceptible use is heavily debateable.

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Animal testing - in the UK should not be allowed.
- Not because it is inherently wrong, but because it attracts lots of hassles, demo's and pointless feuding. The police have got better things to be doing with their time.
- So what if violent animal rights protesters are perceived to have won, so long as there is no trouble in my back yard jack.
- Animal testing elsewhere in the world where they don't have such a hardcore stance against these issues is fine by me.
- Selfish but true

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Originally posted by invigorate
Animal testing - in the UK should not be allowed.
- Not because it is inherently wrong, but because it attracts lots of hassles, demo's and pointless feuding. The police have got better things to be doing with their time.
- So what if violent animal rights protesters are perceived to have won, so long as there is no trouble in my back yard jack.
- ...[text shortened]... they don't have such a hardcore stance against these issues is fine by me.
- Selfish but true
It's called the nimby approach. I see it alot when political views are discussed.

not in my back yard.

Nyxie

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Originally posted by Nyxie
It's called the nimby approach. I see it alot when political views are discussed.

not in my back yard.

Nyxie
one ladies nimby-ism is another mans pragmatism!

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Originally posted by invigorate
one ladies nimby-ism is another mans pragmatism!
Maybe we should relagate all testing to the antartic. Then we'd have less protesters. Well except me, I think I'm fly that flag here.

Nyxie

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Does anyone feel that the type of animal that is used is important.

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Originally posted by trawets113
Does anyone feel that the type of animal that is used is important.
Yes definitely, not only for scientific reasons, but also human perceptions.

For example, it would be pretty useless testing drugs designed for humans on starfish as our physiologies are practically unrelated. However, testing drugs on gorillas or chimpanzees, that have a much similar physiology, would come up against public protest. People are also likely to be less happy about testing on cute animals than they would be about ugly or unpopular ones. So animal testing has to operate within the balance of opposition opinion and useful testing results.