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And also the graves of their loved onesmagoo said:?? I don't think so.
I tell you what, why don't these Animal right's activists volunteer themselves for testing? Everyone's happy then!
And also the graves of their loved onesmagoo said:?? I don't think so.
I tell you what, why don't these Animal right's activists volunteer themselves for testing? Everyone's happy then!
magoo said:?? I don't think so.
I tell you what, why don't these Animal right's activists volunteer themselves for testing? Everyone's happy then!
perseus said:There should be a warning on products: "NOT tested on animals" so we know they might NOT be safe.
You hear about hair dyes and washes and all the victim's hair falls out. Not that this is the cause of my receding hairlines though.
DCgull said:Congratulations on most of you for conflating the two issues. I don't know anyone who approves of grave robbing and the like but what the Halls did (and will continue to do for a while) is obscene. Can someone point me in the direction of evidence of where animal research has created a single cure for anything? MEDICAL research might produce such treatments but not ANIMAL research. Please do feel free to trot out the usual crap like the discovery of insulin etc.
The simple fact is that (regardless of the questionable benefits that we might accrue) we shouldn't use the power we have over others to exploit them; that includes animals. To do this contravenes any standards of decency that we purport to have.
Dandyman said:...there were still over 50,000 new cases of TB in the
UK in 1950. It was only the development of effective vaccines
and drugs, through medical research in which animals were vital,
that made TB both preventable and treatable.
Similarly, in 1940 in the UK, diphtheria was affecting 50,000
people a year. The mass diphtheria immunisation campaign -
resulting from medical research involving animals - then began.
By 1950 the death rate was near zero.
caz99 said:yes it was my father in law died day before christmas eve. i do remember discussions from previous threads as well.
however i think the people who closed down this farm were nothing more than thugs who use violence and intimidation rather than proper reasoning
I also wonder whether if anyones child on here developed one of the many incurable diseases or conditions they would be quite so damning of animal research if it was the only means to find possibly finding a cure. like i have said above test tube testing etc can sometimes be just as unpredictive as animal testing
where do you draw the line of a value of a human life are you saying an animals life is more important.
DCgull said:Oh, for the love of god, I asked for proof, not a quotation. Simply asserting that animals were vital for this doesn't make it so. What about glassware? Was that essential? What about clean water? Having a decent breakfast? The only reason that vivisection gets separated from the rest of medical research is that it is controversial. HTe scientific establishment want to frighten you into believing that research will not be possible without using animals. They haven't proved it, Dandyman hasn't proved it. Anyone else fancy a go?
Dandyman said:animal research and medical progress
The discovery of insulin in the 1920s by Banting and Best in Canada is a good example of the contribution of animal research to medical progress. Their key finding was that injections of an extract of pancreatic cells, which contained the hormone insulin, relieved the symptoms of diabetes in dogs. Insulin was soon found to be highly effective in people, and, as a result, many millions of diabetics are alive and well today. Diabetic dogs have also benefited from insulin treatment.
Each decade since the discovery of insulin has seen the introduction of new kinds of treatments for many diseases. During the 1930s and '40s, sulphonamides and antibiotics were developed to treat bacterial infections, vaccines were introduced to control viral infections, and surgery advanced with modern anaesthetics and the heart-lung machine. Kidney transplants, hip replacement surgery and drugs to control high blood pressure and mental illnesses followed in the '50s and afterwards. New treatments of leukaemia, asthma and ulcers appeared in the '60s and '70s. Drugs which delay the development of AIDS and other diseases caused by viruses, and improved drugs to prevent the rejection of transplants were developed in the '80s and '90s. That each of these and the many other advances were critically dependent on animal experiments is a historical fact.
Given continued research using animals, we can expect further advances in the treatment of diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis and crippling joint disease. It is very difficult to see how we could make such medical advances without animal research.
Would you care to give any back up to your assertions such as validated scientific studies or do you just belong to the "science bad, fluffly bunnies nice" brigade ?
DCgull said:Very patronising, well done. How about a bit of logic for you *insert patronising tone* "do you think you can handle that, love?".
For animal research to be of utility to HUMAN disorders, it has to be predictive. I could bore you with a list of cases where animal research has not predicted deleterious effects upon humans but I won't. The use of Darwinian continuity between humans and other animals only goes so far. Continuity is not sameness. You simply cannot infer from the way one species metabolises a substance that the same will be true for another species. This is simple logic.
All you have done is assert your belief, not prove it. The fact that someone else believes as you do doesn't make it any more true (the argument from authority is a troublesome thing).
For the second time of asking (pay attention): animal research is controversial and that is why people make these wild claims about its efficacy.
Come on then Dandyman, WHEN can we expect these new treatments? Tomorrow? Next week? 2100? When?
As a final note: "It is very difficult to see how we could make such medical advances without animal research"
Read Thomas Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' and then we can chat. 'Til then, I am waiting for proof and not reassertion. On, by the by, kindly leave out that 'fluffly (sic) bunnies nice' bollocks.