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Updated 28 January 2004, 14.33 
Practical argument
Animal testing can be misleading. An animal's response to a drug can be different to a human's .
Successful alternatives include test tube studies on human tissue cultures, statistics and computer models.
The stress that animals endure in labs can affect experiments, making the results meaningless.
Animals are still used to test items like cleaning products, which benefit mankind less than medicines or surgery.
Moral argument
- Animals have as much right to life as human beings.
- Strict controls have not prevented researchers from abusing animals.
- Deaths through research are absolutely unnecessary and are morally no different from murder.
- When locked up they suffer tremendous stress. Can we know they don't feel pain?
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