Arguments against animal testing

Practical argument

• Animal testing can be misleading. An animal's response to a drug can be different to a human's .

• Successful alternatives include test tube studies on human tissue cultures, statistics and computer models.

• The stress that animals endure in labs can affect experiments, making the results meaningless.

• Animals are still used to test items like cleaning products, which benefit mankind less than medicines or surgery.

Moral argument

• Animals have as much right to life as human beings.

• Strict controls have not prevented researchers from abusing animals.

• Deaths through research are absolutely unnecessary and are morally no different from murder.

• When locked up they suffer tremendous stress. Can we know they don't feel pain?