Animal Testing Wars in Los Angeles Ramp Up: On Five Billboards, the Foundation for Biomedical Research Urges Support for Rat Research

 Who are you to criticize other for not citing scientific data in presenting their case.  You have yet to do so, and continue to present yourself as ignorant with statements like "I call it eating."  Arrogance should never be mistaken for intelligence. You're living proof of that.

I am not trying to convince you, it’s up to you to convince yourself. If you don’t do the research yourself you may continue to accept what someone tells you.

here are a few facts I researched from credited Researchers, Doctors, and Scientists even Nobel Prize Winners.

Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever seen in animals. The FDA, Food and Drug Administration has noted that 92% of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous. And the small percentage that is approved for human use, half are relabeled because of side effects that were not identified in animal tests. Further, animals in laboratories typically display behavior indicating extreme psychological distress such as, self-mutilation, eating of feces, hair pulling, infant abuse and depression. There are alternatives to animal testing.

Examples of medicine we use today derived from plants not tested on animals;**Digitalis a heart drug is from the foxglove plant. Morphine is from the opium poppy. Daffodil bulbs are used to make Galantamine a drug for Alzheimer's. Indian snakeroot plant is utilized in making Reserpine, a drug to reduce blood pressure. A cancer drug called Vincristine is from the rosy periwinkle plant. And a common one that you may already be aware of is Aspirin, it comes from the willow tree.Miss conceptions of so called medical advancements that could only happen from animal testing, this is just the tip of the ice burg on information I am finding every day…

PenicillinWe have been told that one of the great discoveries from animal testing was Penicillin. Yet records show that Penicillin was put off for many years because it was in fact tested on a rabbit with no effect. In rabbits, serum levels of penicillin dropped rapidly after parenteral administration, too fast to allow the several hours of contact with bacteria required for an effect in vitro. It wasn’t until it was injected into a human dying that it showed promise. Not only did it save that person’s life it enabled the revolution of developing future antibiotics which are used today. Yes there also people who are allergic to penicillin which shows that we all can react differently to medications. We can deny that animals can be used as predictors for humans because, as the penicillin illustrates, animals vary in their reactions and a reaction in animals does not mean the same will occur in humans.

How fortunate we didn’t have these animal tests in the 1940’s, for penicillin probably never been granted a license, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realized.” ~Alexander Flemming, 1945 Nobel Prize winner for the discovery penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases

Polio:An early breakthrough in the development of a Polio vaccine was made in 1949 using a human tissue culture. Monkey tissue was used in the 1950’s because it was standard laboratory practice. Doctors used to think that Polio virus infected people thru through their nasal passages because that’s how it worked with monkeys. With monkeys the virus entered through the nasal passage and into the brain. After spraying chemicals in kid’s noses it caused them to lose their sense of smell. It also paralyzed and killed some humans. So scientists then referred back to the information that had been obtained from studying human cadavers. Polio infects humans through the digestive system. Years were not only wasted, monkeys were subject to cruel and UN reliable tests. Humans were forever affected because some scientists refused to accept the previous information on tests performed on cadavers. They chose to use the tests performed on monkeys. This situation wasted many years and held back progress. Dr. Sabin developer of the Polio vaccine made a statement regarding animal testing in general using cancer as the example;

“Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.”~Dr. A. Sabin, 1986, developer of the oral polio vaccine

Blood Transfusion:According to the Report of the Royal Commission of Vivisection (1912): The first human blood transfusion was made by Andre Libavius in 1954 when, for a large reward, the blood of a young man was passed into the veins of an older man. Modern techni1que depends upon a careful matching of blood-types, and no animal experiments have, or could have helped in this essential particular.~ Hans Ruesch, One Thousand Doctors (and many more) Against Vivisection, page 131.

Heart Transplant:Experiments on dogs to develop transplant techniques were disastrous. Hundreds of dogs were used yet the first human patients died because of complications which arose when the technique was applied to the first human patients~Dr. Albert Iben, Stanford University cardiac surgeon reported in the Erie Daily Times, may 23 1968

By 1980, 65% of patients survived more than a year as a result of increased skill gained through clinical experience. (Lancet, March 29 1980, pages 687-688)

Open Heart Surgery:The heart-lung machine was the most critical development in open-heart surgery for it takes over the function of the patient’s heart and lungs during open heart operations. John H. Gibbon of Philadelphia, U.S.A. who developed a heart-lung machine on dogs abandoned his project when two patients died, admitting that it was unsafe for human beings. J.W. Kirklin of the Mayo Clinic, without the use of animals and using careful clinical trials made a heart-lung machine which was successful on human beings.~H. McLeave, The Risk Takers, Holt, Rinehard & Winston, 1962, Page 70

The Pace Maker:Each of the techniques made to contract or stimulate the ventricles in attempts to “pace” the human heart was tested on dogs and shown “effective”, even heralded as a success, however they were “quickly” discarded in patients because of many problems, consisting of pain, burns and inability to keep up continuous stimulation for the prolonged period. Dr. C Walton Lillihei pioneer of the pacemaker, seeing his method which was developed on dogs fail to cross the species, devised through observing his patients, a method of “stitching electrodes directly onto the heart, leading them through the chest and running a pulsed current through them.” T development of artificial pacemakers for complete heart block grew out of direct studies of human patients suffering from ventricular septal defect.~ W. Lillihei, “The treatment of Complete Heart Block by the Combined Use of a Myocardial Electrode and an Artificial Pacemaker,” Surgical Forum, 43rd Clinical Congress, Vol. VIII, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, 1957, page 360

Animals do assist humans with medical treatments, but not in cages or on a dissection table. Africa, China to name a couple learned from watching animals in their natural habitat learning about what plants they eat. So in a logical assumption, by ingesting the plants themselves you can say a “Drug” was tested on Humans. They did not have to ingest torture and then dissect the animal in a lab. Clever Monkey: Chimps have assisted in Africa with plants for medicinal purposes; although it is not certain that healthy animals never eat the leaves, infected animals have frequently been seen swallowing Aspilia. And let's not forget to mention that chimps aren't the only ones to seek these leaves: Africans use them, and other parts of the Aspilia plant, for a wide variety of illnesses such as lumbago, sciatica, scurvy, malaria, and rheumatism.

If you really want to research more, look up Dr. Vernon Coleman on the internet about anti-vivisection read his research and while you’re at it PCRM.

Predation is not natural for humans.  Predation in human behavior is the result of desensitization to killing.  Humans have no need to use animals for food and the "research" has been shown over and over and over again to be sketchy at best given the biological differences between humans and other members of the animal kingdom.  Perhaps if we spent more time educating the ignorant, like tomki, we'd choose a path that rests on higher ground instead of justfying deplorable human behavior with drivel that has no scientific basis.

Based on what? You sound like a tea party demagogue.

Hey Dario, Remember how you quit experimenting on monkeys the same exact day that I told UCLA I finally had a lawyer? Aug. 4, 2006. I will never forget that day or you.Sincerely,Corinne Tituswww.myspace.com/uclacoverup

I meant exactly what I said - and how I said. It does no good at all in keeping too many people alive too long - simply for the sake of keeping them alive. When they talk about extending life, they do not talk about the quality of the life the extend,they often keep people alive who are ready to move on, they extend their misery, prolong their lives in nursing homes, add to the indignity of their death when it finally arrives not to mention the expenses of life extension research and medications required to keep dying people clinging to life. I know that life support at one time was considered miraculous by ignorant people, never mind that the patient was hooked up to tubes and had no clue if they were dead or alive. People choose to keep dying people alive for their own selfish reasons, personal, scientific, religious, cultural, etc. IT IS WRONG. Nature will only take so many artificial interferences from man before it revolts, takes over and gets itself back on course. Man can do many wonderous things but he cannot now,and never will, win over the eveloutionary processes of the universe.Woody McBreairty