Yes,Animal testing is nothing but Torture dude.They have one video where there punching a puppy in the face at one of the labs.If they want to test on something,Test on someone in jail who has killed someone.Not an innocent animal that hasnt done anything wrong.Wolf-avatar
Those videos you see are from renegade labs (can't think of a better way to phrase it), most labs aren't like that. I'm a neuroscience major, I work in a lab that does animal testing and I'm very familar with the standards that university labs have to follow when working with animals. It's extremely in-depth and meant to minimize any suffering that the animals experience. In order to get funding or get your experiment greenlighted you have to go through an ethics committee that specifically handles animal testing (called an IAUCUC). And when you do that you have to make a good case for why you're doing what you're doing. You have to convince the board why you're using say, a rat, and not a worm (a rule of research is that you never use an animal higher in cognition that you need to). You have to explain why you're doing what you're doing to the animals and it has to be a good reason (you can't just do an experiment for the hell of doing an experiment, your research actually has to have potentially important consequences). In other words the board looks at your proposed research as a cost-benefit analysis. Are the potential results worth what the animal will go through?
The lab videos that you see from PETA and other groups outrage scientists as well. We get pissed off when we see something like that happen if only because its bad science. You can't gain useful data from abused/highly stressed animals. And since these labs rarely say "hey, some of our idiot employees were punching the animals" when they release data or ship you your animals it means that all their published data comes into question as does every study that cited their data (see: compounded error rates).
You rarely see something like that in a university lab though. The reason why is because in academia your ass will get fired and banned from the field if you're found to be needlessly torturing your animals. Researchers also like to keep their test subjects healthy since test animals tend to be expensive and a sick/injured rat is a waste of funding, not to mention it harms the accuracy of your results which is even worse.
Now, does that mean that labs are day spas for the test animals? Of course not. Fact remains that you probably wouldn't want to be a lab rat. However, it's not like we're just torturing animals for the fun of it. We're getting very useful data that we simply wouldn't be able to get without testing on live subjects. And that data is used to develop new and better medical treatments, products, and more. Now you may still think it's wrong, and that's fine, that's your opinion. But if you're going to hold that view that animal testing is wrong and should never be done then please don't be a hypocrite and ever step inside a hospital, use medicine, take your pets to the vet, give your pets medicine, feed your pets commercial pet food, use comestics, use various hygeine products, go to the dentist, or go to a psychologist.
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