Is animal testing really necessary? Activists argue that technology can already replace animal testing completely, and that using animals is unnecessary and cruel. Proponents, on the other hand, point out that animal testing is strictly regulated in the European Union, and is used only for scientific research.
In 2013, the EU implemented a complete ban on of all cosmetics that had been tested on animals. Two years later, in June 2015, the European Commission rejected proposals in a European Citizens’ Initiative to also ban animal testing in scientific research. The Commission argued that it hopes to eventually phase out animal testing completely, but that it is currently a “complete ban on animal research in the EU would be premature and it would risk chasing out biomedical research from Europe.”
Rodents (primarily mice and rats) together with rabbits represented 80% of the animals used for testing purposes in the European Union in 2011. Reptiles, amphibians, and fish were the next most used group at 12.4%, followed by birds at 5.9%. Primates represented 0.05% of all animal testing in the EU.
Should animal testing be banned? Or would it risk scaring off biomedical research companies? Let us know your thoughts and comments in the form below and we’ll take them to policymakers and experts for their reactions!
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nope
No
No*.
*We can use Leopold & Lonzo instead.
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this is so original
but i must admit i’m a far more interesting specimen than you
😂😂 great answer bro,
Let’s only test on humans! One less step till we got our pharmacy ready for consumption! What a great idea!
why test at all? keep tabs on buyers and test it after you sell it
this is actually what deregulation means guys
I totally agree, but if only if humans are not forced to be a test subject.
Stop eating too
Test it on my grandson :)
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Without doubt yes but the scientific community must be given time to make alternative arrangements.
yes!!!!
Yes
Yes – but we need to be clear on this. I worked for a Cosmetic company, and i know for a fact that animal testing is useless, and no one wanted to do it (there are better and cheaper ways). Thing is, certain countries require by law that certain products be tested in animals.
No, hell no.
Stupid question
Actually Big Pharma testing on people in India almost directly, life is cheap there they give them couple of thousands $ (time to time someone die in agony and relatives talk on popular / discovery channel movie and that is ) think animal lover are ok with that…
Animal testing will not exist in ten years anyway, so banning it is pointless. Cells on a chip will be replacing animal testing. Just let the technology develop and replace the animals as the technology will be cheaper, so be adopted quickly when it is perfected.
And once you eliminate the usefulness of animals, so they disappear from our sight. Just as the horse is on the way out. How many do you see as you drive through the rural areas of our countries? Which, once upon a time, was covered in them? Their upkeep is extremely expensive. If we all become vegetarians, so we will no longer see sheep, herds of beef or pigs in the fields we drive past. They will be too expensive to feed.
I take it you feel extinction for them is better than the cruelty of testing? Yet you will eat animals who are grossly over medicated to increase their size and deforms their shape outrageously. They are filled with hormones and antibiotics and you eat it. Paying through the nose to do so. Then wonder at why the human being has become so obese. Of course it couldn’t be because what they eat is what you live by. Could it!
Likewise the different species we see today. If animals no longer represent us clinically, they will gradually, or, not so gradually, disappear.
Be careful what you wish for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3QqT9B7lPk
Yes!
Yes.
I see no reason to test on animals while there are pedophiles, murderers… and politicians around we can use.
Stop all animal testing and stop all animal cruelty.
Yes, let’s try on people like nazis did…
Exactly that would be total violation of human rights and on my Christian perspective supercede animal rights if you think it would be acceptable to test potentially dangerous products on humans then you should have no problem killing Jews and other “burdens to society “
Use Merkel instead
…” the European Commission rejected proposals in a European Citizens’ Initiative…….”
Doesn’t this issue demonstrate once more that such “powerful agenda-setting tool” like a European Citizens’ Initiative” http://www.citizens-initiative.eu/ is nothing more than another facade to propagate EU (fake) democracy by the invisible treaty authors?
Since its inception in 2012 no “Citizens’ Initiative” was successful- because to EC has the last word! Seems, EU citizens are considered useful democratic idiots who are “allowed” to waste their time & money on sentimental issues- which could be left to the responsible science community to handle.
How important is “animal testing” in relation to e.g. “Right2Water”? http://right2water.eu/node/37/view
Yes it should be banned. It is cruel and selfish for humans to test on animals and no animal deserves to be locked up all day let alone have chemicals and all sorts of stuff rubbed on their skin, squirted into their eyes or shoved down their throats.
Yes you are right….
ho bout telling scietists doctors abortion labs …. STOP testing on humans first
No. Would people like to volunteer to be chopped up.
Animal testing shoukd be banned. All animal cruelty should be illegal and laws enforced.
Should animal testing be banned?
– Except for highly regulated exceptions research on animals is already prohibited. That is why we eat hundreds of times more animals (barely restricted use of animals) than we need for animal research (highly regulated use of animals)
Is animal testing really necessary?
– Animal research projects are only permitted wenn they are necessary, i.e. when no alternatives exist. For cosmetics development they have been banned long ago. For scientific and medical progress (including veterinary medicine) they are still irreplaceable.
Simple answer in we consider the well-being for every living things on this earth but with a prioritization for humans: when it is possible to do technically without animal, just forbidden hurting and painful experiment on animal. And in case it is not technically possible to do without animal, just question the benefit for the society. If it is related to life, e.g. deceases or so painful handicaps it is not human way to live, it is fair to authorized it but by funding another way to experiment.
No.
Not untill adequate way of other testing is found.
Testing what? Jees do you not think enough is enough!
I propose testing on death row criminals, pedophiles and life sentenced.
For medication etc. There is also human testing, but no one minds that.
Rob Parry, please explain how a drug called etanercept (Humira (R) ) was developed.
Banned, prohibited etc ..1000000%
I think Poland should focus on cleaning its disgusting air, and not stopping science
I speak for myself and Your absolutly good remark about the clean air is as important as the ban on which we are sharing our individual opinions. Killing and testing anything on animals is no science.
On the clean air issue, please also find the courage and write something about this to the polish government. I’ll support Y’re effort with my like.
No! , so Europe can fall further behind
No, unless you want diseases to catch up with us
Wow how uninformed!
oh yeah blabla in vitro research more bla different metabolism and blabla
No!
yes and yes
Should we test directly on human ?
Strange the ones who want to stop the animal tests don’t answer this simple question !
We do test directly on humans, they are called clinical trials.
Yes we should! Most murderers are all fair game as far as I’m concerned!
Rob Parry, you are talking about war. Even there is still war, one goal of EU is stopping that. 7 decades ago, those lands were in war. This is maybe because UE lands are uncomfortable with those “fair murder”.
Yessss
should illegal testing on human be punish regarding the country in the world?
Yes. We should start testing on vegan and animal rights activist “volunteers”
There should be no question here. You have to test on something, but i would like to see the law that forces to use Artificial Intellgence first (AI). Moral answer is STOP.
Yes, those poor animals suffer unimaginable tortures!!!
No for 3 reasons:
1) There is no way of knowing if a new drug is safe to use in humans (and how effective it will be) without testing on animals first.
2) In certain contexts, no one has yet found a way to fully substitute an entire organism, and you need one to know what will the effect of a substance be in that context (not recreated by cell cultures, and not entirely by computer models; the latter can be used but if your main question is to know what will the effect of this drug be in an organism, you won’t get that answer unless the organism is there; see the concept of ADMET); for example: certain antibiotics can cause cardiac arrhythmias; what if a drug intended to control diabetes causes cancer?; the immune system is completely dispersed by the organism. Biological drugs like antibodies and antibodies used as tools for scientific research are developed in whole live animals and then their spleens must be taken out to follow up with the hybridoma technology. You don’t have a replacement for this.
3) The concept of replacing animals by cell cultures to cease their suffering is ludicrous. Cells come from animals!
Also, see the 3R’s innitiative.
There are regulations. Read the text please. For cosmetics it was already done. Cosmetics isn’t the same as science.
Its a necessary evil that must continue, but wherever possible, reduce, refine, and replace.
Animal testing for cosmetics is banned for a couple of years already in the EU, as is the import of cosmetics tested on animals. But for medical reasons it seems to be unavoidable. I just translated a report about it – and the people dealing with such questions are not nasty, cruel animal haters, but promote alternative methods wherever possible.
OK Shall we test on humans?
Without animal testing you would not have ANY of the medicines to treat cancer, infectious diseases or vaccines. Think about the consequences before you speak. And NO the industry is not ready to forego animal testing and produce effective treatments for pretty much anything. If you ban regulated animal testing in the EU it will simply be done elsewhere.
Difficult, strict norms though, same as with meat and milk consumption
Yes it should. If there is fear what harm it could cause then don’t use! Natural products non chemical and that is all!!
Yes, yes, yes – ahould ban! I rather wish to humiliate humans and ready to work in this industry :D
people are animal too
Yes, computer models and stem cells much better.
See Dr Hadwen Trust, no need to test on animals.
Human population keeps growing, there is no shortage of humans, we probably do need a catastrophe to check us.
Adult proponents of the ban MUST get ONLY those types of medical treatment that were developed without animal experiments. And they MUST officially declare their views BEFORE they are ill. ;-) P.S. Their children have a right to be cured with all methods. Children are not responsible for idiotism of their parents.
Animal testing should be banned. Basically, read everything under the name ‘Me’ in:
https://levmm1.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/the-pros-and-cons/#comments
I understand what she means and am in total agreement with her, hence that is my as much my argument as it is hers.
Animal testing for medical reasons a not a realy bad thing, but not a good thing either. Animal testing for cosmetic reasons, that is realy bad. Why do these animals have to suffer for our cosmetic products?
Animal Testing SHOULD BE BANNED!!!
Definitely should be banned
Animals and Humans don’t have the same DNA what works for them could be harmful for us!
yes definetly.
yes definetly.
Lmao debating when knowing the answer all ready !!?🤔 … Of course !! is the answer you looking for Europe …
It is already banned for cosmetics. Would you want to take a drug whose risks you have no idea about?
Animals. Have. A. Heart. Animals. Have. Feelings. How. Sad. Those. Poor. Animals. Who. Is. Helping. Them. Be. Free