Quote Originally Posted by basschick View Post
it's VERY rare that animal experimentation is okay with me. in fact, i have boycotted products that do them for over 14 years. most experiments have no reason to them - consider testing sunblock on animals. their melanim is not the same as ours, but also they are naturally fur-bearing. this means their skin is not designed to be in the sun - but human skin IS. so we aren't really gathering any useful information that way as their skin and eyes are almost totally different.

most - not all but most - information that the government makes companies test for is literally already known anyway. in fact, most of the info is so well known that you can use computers to run the tests because we already know every possible animal response to most chemicals.

and considering that pigs, rabbits and mice don't get the same diseases we do, experimenting on them is also lame because where we have certain antibodies, we expose them to diseases they literally don't get - so again, the response is totally different than it would be in a human.

As ever great and well thought out reply. To play devils advocate. Say you had a medical illness that could be cured. But the drugs used to cure it had been tested on animals, or that the treatment was the result of animal tests. You wouldnt boycot that right? Does that not mean that your ok with those tests when its suits? Again, just devils advocate. I tend to agree with what you said.