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Animal Experimentation - Frequently Asked Questions
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From

Americans For Medical Advancement
March 2006

  • Didn't the polio vaccine come from animal experimentation?
  • Wasn't it through lab animals that scientists discovered diabetes and developed insulin?
  • Would drugs be safe for us without being tested first on animals?
  • If we don't use animals, what will we use?
  • What about the claim that animal experimentation is necessary because there are no other whole system models for metabolic processes other than animals?
  • How can we know that medications will not cause birth defects without testing them on animals?
  • Didn't all winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology experiment on animals?
  • How will we combat AIDS without animal experimentation?
  • How will we ever cure cancer without animals?
  • Isn't it true that animals are just like people on a cellular level? They are made up of cells and don't all cells act alike?
  • Don't surgeons train on animals before operating on humans?
  • Don't all doctors support the concept of animal experimentation?
  • How did animal experimentation become so established to begin with?
  • Since all this is true, why does animal experimentation continue?

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