11 Facts about Animal Testing | Do Something - 1 views
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Oriana Zwerdling on 13 Dec 13This helps to prove that the differences between animals and humans are very major, and that animal testing is essentially pointless because humans are very different from the animals that get tested on.
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Oriana Zwerdling on 17 Dec 13The fact that many of these tests fail means that this results in many pointless deaths of animals as well as permanent damage, when the products dont work on the intended customers.
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repeated force-feeding studies that last weeks or months, to look for signs of general illness or specific health hazards.widely condemned “lethal dose” tests, where animals are forced to swallow large amounts of a test chemical to determine what dose causes death.
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Humans can consume different things than other animals can because our bodies do different things and work differently. Also humans have a different lethal dose than animals because our bodies have more mass and can probably take more of something. Also, some things that are poisonus to birds are not to humans, so it could have a completely different effect on us vs. animals that get tested on.
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92 percent of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don’t work