Should experiments on animals be illegal?

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yes. when ppls test animals they want you to believe that they'er not hurting them. but that is horribly wrong. for example, scientists strap monkeys to chairs with head devices and force them to inhale nicotine to see how it affects them. also the IAM's dog food company, you all know them right? well they FUND experimenters who have cut holes in beagles' throats and made them breathe in nicotine too but for a yr...what really disgusts me is that we already know that smoking is deadly!!!! so why r we claiming lives with out a urpose?? i've also learned that 50% of the poor animals that are tested on, don't even make out and mabye more...it's so sad to see God's creatures treated like this...it hurts me deeply...

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Yes, it should be. It's a disgrace to see poor animals go though it. It's ridiculous. I hate the scientists doing it.

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Yes and No, NO for comestics this is totally un acceptable, but Yes I think (even though its upsetting) for new drugs testing as what other way can drugs be tested? On Humans?

Experiments with animals shouldn't be illegal. Cosmetic experiments with animals really aren't necesary. However, many of the experiments for medical research are benifitial to your daily life. For example: with out animal research, many diabetics would be dead-how would we had discovered the effects of injected insulin in a living thing??

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Definetly not! It is true that testing has to start somewhere in order to help combat disease that society is afflicted with, but, what scientists don't tell you is simply "animals are different from people" thus, most experiments go wrong. How often have you heard on the news that what scientists had thought was a break-through in medicine (for instance coffee causing cancer) went "ooops" because testing large doses on animals does not give you the same results as testing an actual human being.

I worked out at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960s and could hear the yelps and moans and groans of poor animals that were mistreated by so-called experimentation for the betterment of humanity. The SPCA eventually interferred (thank God!) Animals feel pain and often the people that use to work with them never seemed to realize this. Think of this ... would you like to go into the hospital for an operation without anesthetic? I doubt it! I refuse to by any product that is animal tested and it's the law in Canada that they must put on the label of cosmetics that it is not animal tested. I am sure there are cosmetics out there that have been tested on animals, but if they don't mention "not animal tested" we don't buy it! Thankfully more natural cosmetics are coming out now (herbal).

In past history there was a program in Canada where criminals in prisons could (not forced) offered to give something back to humanity by being human guinea pigs (of course done in as humane way as possible) and it didn't hurt at all that depending on the crime if the prisoner agreed to such testing some of their sentence would be reduced. I prefer going along these lines although I don't feel it should be encourged to a point of the prisoner not knowing what they are getting themselves into.

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