Nothing more cringe than animal testing. This morning brave activists rescued Beagles from Ridglan Farms dog breeder in Wisconsin.

I won't defend animal testing on dogs specifically, but animal testing is the reason you have access to basically any medication or treatment, and responsible for the advancement of many surgeries and techniques.

Insulin, for example. Diabetes used to be more or less a death sentence, and that was fixed in the 20s due to animal testing. You have animal testing to thank for much more, like the COVID vaccine, the eradication of polio, vaccines for hep C, tuberculosis, HPV. Even antibiotics in general.

Ever used Tylenol? Thanks, animal research. Ever need antibiotics? You might have died without them. This post comes from a place of ignorance.

Me and the wife actually adopted one of those ex laboratory Beagles.

It's a real loud piece of shit that howls at every dog he sees and likes to eat dog poop.

We love him very much.

https://preview.redd.it/0zwi2vi7c9pg1.jpeg?width=1868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f785555ac9fa8ee1014d6d12d2e2133e431b3cb5

How come its always beagles when it comes to animal testing on dogs?

Am I the only one mad about them not wearing masks because I don't want criminal or civil liabilities to catch up with them?

Hopefully they still don't, but damn. People get arrested for doing the right thing all the fucking time.

Good.

This is so blatantly an illegal operation based on how those cages are designed.

Fuck.

The FDA requires animal testing in pharmaceutical development. It was only recently they relaxed rules on the topic.

I don’t like it but I understand the medical necessity.

This farm was shut down to avoid prosecution for animal cruelty.

https://www.wpr.org/news/dane-county-ridglan-farms-beagle-breeding-closing-wisconsin

I see a lot of people saying animal testing is a "necessary evil". That term is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. It's only "necessary" because regulators have mandated it. It's a policy choice. Science has actually moved on!

There are plenty of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs, like organ on a chip, human tissue models, etc) that are producing results that are more predictive of human outcomes. Animal testing isn't some gold standard we have to cling. And the 92% failure rate tells you everything. 92% of drugs that pass animal trials fail in human trials. If any other testing methodology had that track record, it would have been scrapped decades ago! We accept it for animal testing because the failures are paid for in human suffering downstream and animal suffering upstream, and somehow that's been normalised as "rigorous science" and a "necessary evil".

The question isn't whether we can afford to move beyond animal testing. It's why we're still defending a system that demonstrably doesn't work, when the alternatives exist and are improving rapidly.

Source: works with a charity that is pushing for replacement of animals in medical testing

Steal them all. Shut that shit down

Activists saving dogs = “brave”

Activists exposing dairy, cow, or pig farming industry = “CRAZY VEGANS, LIVE AND LET LIVE”

Never change, Reddit.