Petition updateStop Animal Testing8 Expert Quotes Admitting That Testing on Animals Is Unreliable
Topher HabelUnited States
Jul 27, 2024

Experimenting on animals is so unethical. Humans do not have the right to imprison or harm any animal. And so many experiments don't even end up working. Research shows that animal studies are failing to lead to treatments and cures, and they’re wasting time and resources. Here’s what a few esteemed scientists, government officials, and physicians have to say about them:

"Mice are mice, and people are people. If we look to the mouse to model every aspect of the disease for man, and to model cures, we’re just wasting our time.” —Dr. Clifton E. Barry, chief of the Tuberculosis Research Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

“We have moved away from studying human disease in humans. We all drank the Kool-Aid on that one, me included. … The problem is that [testing on animals] hasn’t worked, and it’s time we stopped dancing around the problem. … We need to refocus and adapt new methodologies for use in humans to understand disease biology in humans.” —Dr. Elias Zerhouni, former director of the National Institutes of Health

“Currently, nine out of ten experimental drugs fail in clinical studies because we cannot accurately predict how they will behave in people based on laboratory and animal studies.” —Michael O. Leavitt, former secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

“The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades and it simply didn’t work in humans.”
—Dr. Richard Klausner, former director of the National Cancer Institute

If you want to read more on this issue click the link below 👇

https://www.peta.org/features/expert-quotes-reasons-animal-testing-unreliable/

 

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