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 Should Animal Testing be illegal in the United States of America? (33)

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Should Animal Testing be illegal in the United States of America?

Animal cruelty is illegal and what we are doing to animals in labs is no better than what people do to them outside of labs but at home where the punishment for animal cruelty is prison and a major fine! What is the difference between these two problems? Animal cruelty is animal cruelty? What side are you on??Dead rabbits that were used in animal testing facilities

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Animal testing is inhumane, inaccurate, and unnecessary. There are no reasons to continue this archaic practice.

Side: Absolutely
Mahollinder(900) Disputed
1 point

SO, who or what would you have researchers of certain products test said products for human consumption? Humans?

Side: Absolutely

Yes, exactly! The consenting persons for whom the product is intended!

Or we can use modern technology, such as cultures of human organs, to reliably test products.

Side: Absolutely
2 points

No it should not animal cruelty is horrible to humans and animals.

Side: Absolutely

The Earth is our laboratory, and animals are our test subjects. This is price that animals pay as being the inferior specie.

Side: Hell NO
Werewolfie17(29) Disputed
1 point

You're saying if an alien race thousands of years ahead of us technology wise came to earth to probe you, perhaps kill you, you'd be okay with that because you were the inferior specie and that was your price to pay?

Side: Absolutely
1 point

Well being an ignorant, backwards, greedy, country America is, it will be legal.

It shouldn't be. But the USA's built on the suffering of others.

Side: Absolutely
1 point

i totally agree with you why should little harmless animals be treated on harming them not only physicially but mentally as aniamls have feeling aswell as humans :O

Side: Absolutely
1 point

hi pelhum! i think animal crulety is wrong, but in testing it to see if it will be safe for humans is in my opinion, better then testing it on humans. i mean i'd rather have a animal get hurt then a human, but thats my opinion.

Side: Absolutely
Lisamarie(2) Disputed
2 points

Why is it OK to hurt an animal who, btw, did NOT give their consent to have tests done on him/her? We wouldn't test on a person who couldn't speak a human language without their consent, and animals are alive, conscious beings with rights, too. Essentially we're all one species; we all just look different and speak different languages and have different capabilites is all. But even so, intelligence or lack thereof, has NOTHING to do with one's ablilty/capacity to feel PAIN and SUFFER, and to have a desire to be free of imprisonment, abuse and exploitation, and to not grant non-human beings this same right just because maybe they are not "our own kind" is being speciest, which is PREJUDICE just the same as racism and sexism!

Side: Absolutely
1 point

hasnt anyone heard an animal in pain? dont tell me its ok ,cause its fukn not! what about putting those hard case "sickos'" from death row up on the lab slab ?Now that i wouldnt mind. i mean half the time they wait so long for d day to come they may as well contribute to something worthy before they go.testing would be far more reliable.and might i add ,if i knew i had terminal cancer or another type of incurable desease id be more than happy to offer myself as a test subject.WHATS TO LOSE. IF you think its ok then please come and live with me,l provide u a bed & water & food (maybe)and in return,i put the lotion in the bucket & you rub the lotion on the skin

Side: Absolutely

In today's society we consider it bad to test on animals and I agree because what if you were the one being tested on how would you feel animals have feelings too and god did not create animals so they could be used for a inhumane process like testing of products.

Side: Absolutely

Animal testing is animal cruelty and it should be stopped. Those poor animals don't need to suffer.

Side: Absolutely
0 points

I don't get the picture. Sleeping cats covered in tomato sauce? lol, cats and their ability to get into the cutest of situations.

Well, if we didn't have animal testing all human beings with diabetes would be dead...

so if you or someone you know has diabetes, be happy that animal testing is legal in the United States. But if you don't care about those with diabetes, none of this shit matters.

also, are they dogs or cats? can't really tell (which is why i don't get the picture).

Side: Hell NO
1 point

random down vote.

a great example of how i'm right and you're wrong.

Side: Hell NO
dacey(1040) Disputed
1 point

i thought down voting was a way of disagreeing with the persons argument.didnt realise it was a no -no, maybe this option ought to be removed.as far as being right or wrong ,well you obviously dont know much about the harsh realities of animal testing. like i said come stay with me, i might feed you,... if you put the lotion on the skin.

Side: Absolutely
RavenHeart(1) Disputed
1 point

Animal testing is probably less than around 70% accurate (give or take a few).. Humans and animals have different make up's and usually you will need to test about 100 animals just to get one mild result of a human..

There are alternatives such as different materials that resemble human tissue..

The whole point is also to stop making useless $h!t we don't need.. Animals are not test subjects, we over breed them, just to kill them. Animals are the cheapest ways to test, though there are more accurate ways to test.. Most things we test don't even make it to the shelves..

Side: Hell NO
0 points

Well what are we supposed to test on? People? Humans are higher forms of life than animal.

Side: Hell NO
Steffi(1) Disputed
1 point

Who made us god to decide that we are higher? we were once animals as well! Just because we have a higher intelligence does NOT mean that we can kill animals because we feel that they are worth less than a human life! Humans are selfish creatures and i don't understand why we think we're better, we're animals ourselves with the way we act! Yes, I'm a human too, and i agree I'm selfish too at times, but really? is it really necessary to prove we are better?

Side: Hell NO
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there are millions of stray animals that die of neglect in the roads daily, the animals used in animal testing have homes and are given food and water. these animals are used to benefit the lives of many suffering and who could benefit from possible cures. who is the inhumane one ? the scientists who use animals who would have died on the streets and tried to help the human race or the people trying to delude theirselves that these animals are better off getting roadkilled or spent their life starving. ( btw for the people who think about of the pain factor.... there is anastesia in labs not so much out in the wild) y dont the people whining about animal cruelty help the millions of other animals on the streets who do need their help?

Side: Hell NO
dacey(1040) Disputed
1 point

prove they use pain relievers on these animals! do you realize the expense behind such anesthetics? i dont think so.

Side: Absolutely