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sojourner's avatar

Rand Paul is NOT making points for a recent piece of legislation, eliminating "animal testing". Now, they can just run the experiments on humans directly, as we are witnessing with the injections. “Leaders of the Senate from both parties recognize that the United States must lift an archaic animal-testing mandate for drug development and replace that strategy with 21st-century methods grounded on human biology,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy.

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Julie's avatar

Animal testing, sadly, was not eliminated. It is the mandate that was ended. So, they can still use animals for testing, but they are not required to do so.

I am wholly opposed to animal testing. They cannot understand nor give consent, they are simply used, cruelly abused, and killed. If you want to be truly horrified, look up vivisection.

If I find that an act on a person is immoral and unacceptable, how can I then find that same act is acceptable to do to an animal? I cannot.

Rand Paul certainly made points with me. It was a step in the right direction.

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RunningLogic's avatar

It does seem like with all of the technology available, there could be some other effective way. Also a lot of the tests on animals don’t really end up translating to what happens in humans anyway.

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Annie's avatar

The 8 mice used in the testing of the bivalent covid booster would agree. Oh wait! The booster killed them.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

When the meds work fine for animals, it is considered by scientists to be safe for men. when the meds kill the animals the scientist says, oh it will work out for humans. When it works for men it is automatically considered to be working for women. (mostly doses are too strong for women if they are okay for men)

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Annie's avatar

And it's safe for pregnant and lactating women - 😱 when tptb lied about that and okayed it for pregnant and lactating women, I knew then the level of evil and disregard for life they had.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

indeed ! every doctor and even every woman should know, that pregnant and lactating women do not take any meds. Nothing. Because all that garbage goes straight into that baby.

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Oppositional Defiance's avatar

My friend's husband has a biotech startup involving non-animal methods for drug testing. It's more accurate and cruelty-free.

Think about the experiments Fauci did on beagles. There is so much wasteful animal testing and much of it is sheer cruelty.

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Irunthis1's avatar

Surely there is a way for cell line testing. Cell lines from cord blood or similar NOT cells from aborted babies like they use now!

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