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Stop animal testing

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

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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

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Would you like them to test on you instead?

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What’s the alternative?

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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.

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Unfortunately there is no alternative

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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.

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

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

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

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