Three strong reasons why animals shouldn't be used as research?

1. Animal studied are not reliable sources of human outcomes. In many cases, drugs that appear promising in animal studies have a high failure rate in human clinical trials. 2. Animal based research is cruel and painful 3. There are alternatives to animal testing, such as cell culture techniques, which is a promising alternative.
You should not use animals for drug research because there are millions of people out there who would rather be the test subjects instead. Don't you see them lined up around the block? Me either. Critical, life-saving medications should be tested on animals because our computer models and knowledge on how the drugs interact is too limited. Animal testing can help find an interaction that the designers may have missed before sending the drug of to be tested on humans with potentially fatal results. Mainly because of pain and torture. Absolutely right, Tim. We should perform any of those painful or torturous experiments on PETA members. Using animals for testing purposes has never been a viable concept. The moral and ethical reasons are obvious to knowledgable persons. There is absolutely no scientific findings to prove results found in testing a "lab rat" have any impact on human beings using the same product.In today's high tech science community there is no reason whatsoever to continue such abuse of helpless creatures. Results from the research on animals may not be accurate.. e.g testing on a medication for humans. Would you do it to a person and take a risk with their life? Many times, before we can test a new drug on humans, we test on animals; many important vaccines and important medications have been developed using animal testing. HOWEVER, I absoulutely DO NOT believe in testing cosmetics or shampoo on animals; these are really CRUEL; like putting make-up in a rabbits eyes to see the results. Whenever you buy cosmetics, shampoo, cologne etc... look on the label where it says NOT TESTED on animals; TESTED on humans. Sorry to say animal testing has helped create life saving medical treatment. So you have to balance the issue. It IS NOT BLACK AND WHITE> Thanks.
Animals do have the sense of touch, therefore they feel. Most animals that on which are experimented on, are mammals. Humans are mammals too, the only difference is the ability to speak, but animals can feel exactly what humans feel, only they follow their instinct while we follow our desires.