1. The case against Animal Experimentation By Chad Schwaberow

2. Debunking the 3 Major Lies for why Animal Experimentation should be allowed Testing on animals is a reliable way of protecting humans. If we didn’t test drugs on animals, we’d have to test them on humans. Testing is being done in a humane way and only for urgent/vital medical reasons.

3. Lie #1:Testing on animals is a reliable way of protecting humans. http://www.debate.org/debates/Animal-Testing/5/ Animals not only react differently than humans to different drugs, vaccines, and experiments, they also react differently from one another. Ignoring this difference has been and continues to be very costly to human health. 1. Penicillin kills cats and guinea pigs but has saved many human lives.2. Arsenic is not poisonous to rats, mice, or sheep.3. Morphine is a sedative for humans but is a stimulant for cats, goats, and horses.4. Digitalis while dangerously raising blood pressure in dogs continues to save countless cardiac patients by lowering heart rate.

4. Is this protecting humans? 5. The most famous example of the dangers of animal testing is the Thalidomide tragedy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thalidomide, which came out on the German market late in the 1950s, had previously been safety tested on thousands of animals. It was marketed as a wonderful sedative for pregnant or breastfeeding mothers and it supposedly caused no harm to either mother or child. Despite this "safety testing", at least 10,000 children whose mothers had taken Thalidomide were born throughout the world with severe deformities.

5. Or is this protecting humans? 6. Clioquinol is another example of a drug that was safety tested in animals and had a severely negative impact on humans. This drug, manufactured in Japan in the 1970s, was marketed as providing safe relief from diarrhea. Not only did Clioquinol not work in humans, it actually caused diarrhea. As a result of Clioquinol being administered to the public, some 30,000 cases of blindness and/or paralysis and thousands of deaths occurred.

6. http://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-pointcounterpoint.asp#point1 The fact is that we already do test new drugs on people, but because animal tests are so unreliable, they make those human trials all the more risky. In August 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) noted that only 8 percent of all drugs that pass animal tests make it to the human market. This means that of all drugs that are found to be safe and effective in animals, a whopping 92 percent are found to be either unsafe or ineffective in humans. Despite rigorous animal tests, prescription drugs kill 100,000 people each year, making them our nation's (USA) fourth-biggest killer. Lie #2: If we didn’t test drugs on animals, we’d have to test them on humans.

7. Lie #3: Testing is being done in a humane way and only for vital medical reasons. http://www.smokinganimals.com/facts.html Experiments being done: Cutting holes in beagles' throats through which the dogs are forced to breathe concentrated cigarette smoke for a year. Strapping masks to the faces of rats and monkeys and permanently restraining them to force them to breathe cigarette smoke constantly. Forcing dogs to be on mechanical ventilators and chronically exposed to cigarette smoke. Restraining Rhesus monkeys in chairs with head devices and exposing them to nicotine and caffeine to determine how caffeine and nicotine affect breathing. To Prove what we already know: Smoking causes cancer of the lungs, larynx, tongue, salivary glands, mouth, pharynx, and esophagus Smoking contributes to cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease Smoking during pregnancy hurts babies. Smoking lowers the general body resistance to disease Nicotine is addictive.

8. Debunking 3 Lies for why Animal Experimentation should be allowed Testing on animals is a reliable way of protecting humans. If we didn’t test drugs on animals, we’d have to test them on humans. Testing is being done in a humane way and only for urgent/vital medical reasons.

9. Why should we stop animal experimentation? Animal Experimentation produces unreliable results!! which leads to Humans testing on each other anyway. So money,time, and resources would better be spent on conducting safe tests on humans rather than playing the mad scientist, cruelly experimenting on animals.

10. Bibliography For Animal Experimentation: http://www.pro-test.org.uk/2006/03/facts-about-animal-research.html by Kristina Cook http://www.ratbehavior.org/RatYears.htm http://www.baby2see.com/pregnancylength.html www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=5030 Against Animal Experimentation: http://www.debate.org/debates/Animal-Testing/5/ http://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-pointcounterpoint.asp#point1 http://www.smokinganimals.com/facts.html