33 Reasons Why Animal Testing is Pointless

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33 reasons why animal testing is pointless

 

 

(1) Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever

seen in animals.

 

(2) According to the former scientific executive of

Huntingdon Life Sciences, animal tests and human

results agree only '5%-25% of the time'.

 

(3) 95% of drugs passed by animal tests are

immediately discarded as useless or dangerous to

humans.

 

(4) At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in

laboratory animals. They are allowed because it is

admitted the animal tests are not relevant.

 

(5) Procter & Gamble used an artificial musk despite

it failing the animal tests, i.e., causing tumours in

mice. They said the animal test results were 'of

little relevance for humans'.

 

(6) When asked if they agreed that animal experiments

can be misleading 'because of anatomical and

physiological differences between animals and humans',

88% of doctors agreed.

 

(7) Rats are only 37% effective in identifying what

causes cancer to humans. Flipping a coin would be more

accurate.

 

(8) Rodents are the animals almost always used in

cancer research. They never get carcinomas, the human

form of cancer, which affects membranes (e.g lung

cancer). Their sarcomas affect bone and connecting

tissue: the two cannot be compared.

 

(9) Up to 90% of animal test results are discarded as

they are inapplicable to man.

 

(10) The results from animal experiments can be

altered by factors such as diet and bedding. Bedding

has been identified as giving cancer rates of over 90%

and almost nil in the same strain of mice at different

locations.

 

(11) Sex differences among laboratory animals can

cause contradictory results. This does not correspond

with humans.

 

(12) 9% of anaesthetised animals, intended to recover,

die.

 

(13) An estimated 83% of substances are metabolised by

rats in a different way to humans.

 

(14) Attempts to sue the manufacturers of the drug

Surgam failed due to the testimony of medical experts

that: 'data from animals could not be extrapolated

safely to patients'.

 

(15) Lemon juice is a deadly poison, but arsenic,

hemlock and botulin are safe according to animal

tests.

 

(16) Genetically modified animals are not models for

human illness. The mdx mouse is supposed to represent

muscular dystrophy, but the muscles regenerate without

treatment.

 

(17) 88% of stillbirths are caused by drugs which are

passed as being safe in animal tests, according to a

study in Germany.

 

(18) 61% of birth defects are caused by drugs passed

safe in animal tests, according to the same study.

Defect rates are 200 times post war levels.

 

(19) One in six patients in hospital are there because

of a treatment they have taken.

 

(20) In America, 100,000 deaths a year are attributed

to medical treatment. In one year 1.5 million people

were hospitalised by medical treatment.

 

(21) A World Health Organisation study showed children

were 14 times more likely to develop measles if they

had been vaccinated.

 

(22) 40% of patients suffer side effects as a result

of prescription treatment.

 

(23) Over 200,000 medicines have been released, most

of which are now withdrawn. According to the World

Health Organisation, only 240 are 'essential'.

 

(24) A German doctors' congress concluded that 6% of

fatal illnesses and 25% of organic illness are caused

by medicines. All have been animal tested.

 

(25) The lifesaving operation for ectopic pregnancies

was delayed 40 years due to vivisection.

 

(26) According to the Royal Commission into

vivisection (1912), 'The discovery of anaesthetics

owes nothing to experiments on animals'. The great Dr

Hadwen noted that 'had animal experiments been relied

upon...humanity would have been robbed of this great

blessing of anaesthesia'. The vivisector Halsey

described the discovery of Fluroxene as 'one of the

most dramatic examples of misleading evidence from

animal data'.

 

(27) Aspirin fails animal tests, as does digitalis (a

heart drug), cancer treatments, insulin (causes animal

birth defects), penicillin and other safe medicines.

They would have been banned if vivisection were

heeded.

 

(28) In the court case when the manufacturers of

Thalidomide were being tried, they were acquitted

after numerous experts agreed that animal tests could

not be relied on for human medicine.

 

(29) Blood transfusions were delayed 200 years by

animal studies, corneal transplants were delayed 90

years.

 

(30) Despite many Nobel prizes being awarded to

vivisectors, only 45% agree that animal experiments

are crucial.

 

(31) At least 450 methods exist with which we can

replace animal experiments.

 

(32) At least thirty-three animals die in laboratories

each second worldwide; in the UK, one every four

seconds.

 

(33) The Director of Research Defence Society, (which

exists to defend vivisection) was asked if medical

progress could have been acheived without animal use.

His written reply was 'I am sure it could be'.