Cruelty - But Useful Cruelty (Vivisection)

Member Name: wednesday_addams

Product:	Vivisection
Date:	03/12/00 (24 review reads)
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Advantages: medical experiments can save lives

Disadvantages: testing for cosmetics is not acceptable

However, being 'useful' isn't enough to justify what these animals go through.

I have mixed feelings on this issue. I feel that under most circumstances vivisection in unnecessary, cruel and not acceptable. However, for medical research, I do feel that it is more justified. Think about this; you or a close friend or relative is terminally ill, but their life can be saved only by a product that HAS to be tested on animals. Would you put the animal's life/pain in front of yours?

Also, consider the large amount of people in our society who eat meat. If you can happily sit down and munch on a bacon sarnie, can you really say it is wrong to test a new, important and extremely beneficial medicine on a sweet little piggy who could easily be your lunch? I'm not condemning meat-eating: I do it, as do a large amount of people.
The other side to this issue is that at abbatoirs animals are killed relatively quickly and painlessly, and do not go through the discomfort that takes place in so many laboratories.

The use of animal testing for cosmetics is completely unnacceptable. Nothing should suffer for human greed or vanity.
This also applies to household products. We do not NEED them - our lives can easily continue with a product that is not tested on animals.

To sum up :-

1. I feel animal testing is acceptable under medical circumstances. We eat these animals, and cannot say it is wrong for them to die to save our lives, when we kill them just because we don't feel like eating cheese.

2. Animal testing on non-necessary products such as cosmetics is unfair, and unjustifiable. Nothing should have to suffer for our vanity.

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