Animal experiments
Experimenting on animals for the purpose of developing medicines for humans are an extreme form of animal cruelty. Countless ‘successful’ drug trials done on animals have failed when applied to humans, often with devastating effects.
Alternative methods to replace animal testing are to implement technologies that include the use of:
- Microdosing. Volunteers are given tiny doses of new drugs to see how they’re metabolised. This is safe and has a high accuracy rate.
- Human tissues.
- Human cells.
- Human DNA.
- Microfluidics. Using interconnected human tissue samples can mimic the effects that the whole body could react to.
- Computer models. Virtual organs.
- Test tubes. Using human blood.
If you want to study human diseases, you need to study humans – not animals. Humans have a different immune system and their bodies function and react differently to the way animals do. Despite also having limbs, emotional senses and nerves, animals are not identical to humans – and neither are they inferior!