Help with animal testing..

[Lady's Human]

There's only one problem with posting that question. It is a highly charged debate, and you are probably not going to get answers that are not idealogically driven.

Groups like PETA hate all animal use, and have gone so far as to attack the March of Dimes, calling them the March of Crimes for their use of animal testing, ignoring the fact that MOD has had a significant positive impact on birth defects through its research. Animal testing of Cosmetics is IMHO ignorant, but for true medical research there are things that are hard to research any other way.

[smokey the elder]

Until the FDA approves some of the new alternatives for meds, animal testing is the only allowed way to "prove" safety. Quotes exist because animal models are NOT perfect! As far as a source base, I don't know of any "balanced" that discuss pro and con from an "objective" point of view. You might want to google it and wade through the rhetoric.

Disclaimer: I work in pharma, don't approve of testing for cosmetics, and would very much like an alternative to animal testing for human drugs.