• Question: Do you agree that it is cruel for products to be tested on animals to check weather that product will be safe to be used on humans?

    Asked by anon-224916 to Simon, Selen, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 18 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Natalie Fowler

      Natalie Fowler answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      I do think testing on animals, particularly when they get hurt, is very cruel because they have no choice. But on the other hand I do understand that to have new drugs and to make sure they are safe for humans we do have to test them on animals sometimes. I would never ever want an animal to be hurt so I would only want them to be tested on with products that are seen to be safe.
      If testing on one animal could show that a drug to cure cancer is safe, should we do it? That’s a hard one.

    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      Needless testing of products on animals (like make-up)? Absolutely! Testing to save a life – and that includes other animals? However distasteful I find that, I have to say we need to do it – at this point in time there is simply no alternative. I think one day, when we better understand how to mimic body systems using computer models, those will replace live testing, but we’re not there yet.

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