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The animal testing debate, as I’ve often said, has voices on all sides, and though I’ll be placed in the animal activist camp, that doesn’t make me an “extremist” or cloud my judgment. In researching for this piece, I was intrigued by this statement I read in a Slate article, “Since the alternative [to animal testing] is to experiment on people, most everyone other than hardcore animal lovers accepts animal testing. Periodically, however, a spectacular failure raises new questions about the enterprise not for ethical reasons, but scientific ones.”
There are a few things here I find interesting, first, the alternative to animal testing would absolutely never involve the kind of pain that we inflict on animals, to be inflicted on humans. It would (and does) involve clinical observation, clinical research, in vitro research with human tissue, autopsies, computer modeling, technology, human drug surveillance, epidemiology, pathology, preventive medicine, among