... are being killed and animal researchers understand people are concerned and say the conditions are being improved enormously. There are in fact very tight laws to control the use of animals. Most of the major advances in the last century would have been impossible without animal research. Anaesthetics, insulin, polio vaccines, penicillin and antibiotics were all discovered through animal research. Think of what we do if we didn't have Anaesthetics, some operations would be impossible. Antibiotics are also very important, they are prescribed to patients everyday to fight infections. "All animal species are however unique, including humans and it is unreliable and can be misleading or harmful when data collected from vivisection is applied to humans." This was proven in the 1960's. Numerous animal experiments were carried out where animals had to inhale tobacco smoke. It showed that it did not cause lung cancer. Tobacco companies used these studies to delay Government ...

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