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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately there is no alternative

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There is.

Do it in humans.

Humans can understand the risks involved. Other animals cannot.

If we're going to fuck something up, it better be on our own species.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But we can't. That's why we're testing it on animals

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And if you look long enough in the right places, you can also pay them peanuts... or for them 😒

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A new treatment is developed for a condition that affects babies. Are you volunteering your child for testing?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yea stopping animal testing sounds great, but animal testing is the backbone of drug and medical breakthroughs. So at least for now that's not possible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Would you like them to test on you instead?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Recognition that animal testing is actually pretty fucked up would be a good start toward funding research into alternatives, such as biological computer simulations.

We can simulate complex/chaotic systems, like weather, in nearly real-time, so biosim research is mainly a funding and staffing problem at this point.

Probably we'll still need animal testing for the final phase before human trials, but we can at least reduce the need for it to bare minimums.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Cool, where should we test all the pet food and medical treatments for animals then?