These are people with good intentions who didn't do their homework. These efforts have to be better managed. Animals have a tough life in this world and things need to change. All this needless medical experimentation on animals enrages me. It's just "smart people" chasing after grants.

@TheoryNumber3 "Needless?" Name some. The days of cosmetics testing were over decades ago. Pregnancy tests no longer kill rabbits.
What is left is Alzheimers research, cancer treatments, anti-rejection drugs for transplant recipients and so forth. Serious stuff!
I myself have volunteered at Yale several times for drug trials after they got to the human-testing stage....do you think anybody would volunteer if at least some living thing hadn't survived real-world testing?
Or do you think we have all the antibiotics we will ever need, or plenty of ways to help diabetics and sickle-cell sufferers and dementia patients, to name just a few, right now?

Anne---you are so right about PETA! I've actually seen them coaching little children to call out false information at the zoo where I work. "They hurt elephants.!" Our elephant exhibit is 5 1/2 acres, with trees, three pools, specially designed level changes, so their feet and legs remain healthy, ''enrichment'' stations all over the exhibit, heated floors in the barn, etc. But they lie to collect donations. And people believe them.

@annewimsey What makes you think cosmetic testing is over? Cosmetics can be marked "cruelty free" if the finished product is tested on animals and causes no reaction.... but it's very probable that some of the individual ingredients were cruelly tested. More than 161,000 rabbits are abused in U.S. laboratories every year by cruel Draize tests which consists of dropping poisons into their eyes while restrained

I agree that some testing is necessary. But much of what is done is totally useless in advancing human health. They test antidepressants by near drowning rats. Monkeys' brains are intentionally damaged through burning to test their reaction to fear. I'm not going to address each scenario individually. There are too many. I just know that much of the research is too often useless when applied to humans and should be illegal. There is something humanly unacceptable about breeding millions of animals just to torture them for their entire brief lives. Animal experimenters purposely and deliberately hurt sentient beings who scream, cry, convulse, and writhe. They sacrifice the animals’ freedom, joy, relationships, and lives, apparently without a second thought, all for the chance to publish a paper in a medical or scientific journal that won’t help anyone.

The best thing we can do is support groups that are trying to end it. There are so many doing good work. One horrifying example that particularly enrages me is the dog and cat meat trade in asia. Heartbreaking