Should millions of animals euthanized each year instead be donated to medical research?

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I know the Humane Society, PETA, and other activist groups have been fighting research on animals, but considering the millions of strays that are euthanized each year, don't you think it would be better if they were donated for research? It would benefit both the animals and mankind. Also, consider this- If animal testing is stopped altogether, new medications will be tested on humans. Do you think it is better that human fatalities occur in this process, or several non-human animals die?

Should millions of animals euthanized each year instead be donated to medical research?
No, dogs and cats are NOT viable alternatives for testing because they do not have the physiology or immune responses that humans do.


I do, however; know also that animal testing cannot be halted at this point - your comment on testing on humans being why. I wonder if the PETA people would volunteer to test the drugs for the benefit of all mankind. I seriously doubt it.


Having said that, I am strongly for making sure that lab animals are humanely treated, and not subjected to arbitrary experiments just to see what would happen. Lab animals need to be treated better than in the past, and I think there should be oversight to ensure their humane treatment.





Edit: A computer simulation WILL NOT and CAN NOT take the place of testing on a living body. No matter how many computations it makes, there is always a variable that a computer cannot take into consideration - the life factor. No organism will react the same to a drug every time. One person will have one side effect, another person with the seemingly same physiology will have a completely different set of effects. A computer may MIMIC some of these, but it could never actually replace animal testing - unless the computer became sentient. And at that point, you'd have computer rights people protesting against using computers for anything, that they should be set free.


(Then think 'Terminator' and 'The Matrix').
Reply:I'm with you. PETA is too radical anyway. It is to me the same argument as with stem cells. Going to trash them anyway, then get some use out of them. When animal rights people learn how to treat people well, I'll talk with them.





I'm totally against cruelty to animals. Totally. But there is and should be a hierarchy of responsibility that animal rights people don't understand.
Reply:I don't know about you, but I'd rather be put to death than tortured the rest of my life.
Reply:NO A MILLION TIMES NO! those animals feel pain like we do.





They NOW have MODERN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY to simulate testing on how illnesses and disease would effect animals AND people with accuracy and it would be much cheaper as well. But testing on live subjects period IT IS ALL WRONG!!





There is SO MUCH of purpose that animals can do for us other then research like be trained as police dogs drug dogs, seeing eye dogs,gaurd dogs, nursing home animals ect.





Most people dont realize how theriputic it is for the elderly to feel the touch and recieve a loving touch from a animal. No! I do not agree.