My friend Dr. Dilyana Filipova stops by to discuss the unethical use of animals for scientific experimentation and its inherent inefficient method of ensuring the safety of things like pharmaceuticals for humans. Animal testing is an outdated useless way of testing products and is actually more expensive than the alternative. We also discuss the current state of computer models that will eventually over take animal testing and are more accurate and ethical. This is an amazing conversation with an incredibly smart and compassionate human being.
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The association Doctors Against Animal Experiments
supports the immediate abolition of all animal experiments
is a charitable organization of doctors and scientists who work in the medical field
was founded in 1979
is based in Germany and works on a national level
works with legal means only.
What we want
The abolition of all animal experiments.
Increased support of animal-free research.
Increased research, funding and promotion of prevention of diseases.
What we do
By providing a research grant (Herbert-Stiller prize), giving scientific lectures and organizing scientific conferences, we actively support and advance animal-free research
We provide scientifically based information material on animal experiments (leaflets, brochures, book, videos, website, exhibition) both for doctors and scientists working in the medical field, as well as for the general public.
With our media work we make the cruel and unscientific nature of animal experiments public.
Our local groups raise public awareness throughout Germany.
Our campaigns put pressure on responsible authorities, politicians and companies.
Our website is by far the most comprehensive site on animal experiments in the German speaking area. The German version is constantly updated and provides the latest news, facts, background information on this issue.
Our internet database about animal experiments which have been carried out in Germany is the only of its kind in the world. It demonstrates that animal experiments are cruel and useless – here and today.
The NAT database (Non-Animal Technologies) gives an overview about animal-free research technologies that are developed all over the world.
We lobby politicians and legislators on a national and international level.
With our school project we offer information and discussion events for pupils, teachers and parents.
With our Eastern Europe project we provide animal-free teaching tools to Universities who are willing to replace animal dissections in science lessons.
We work together with international organizations to influence politics and legislation also on EU level.
Why we are opposed to animal experiments
Animal experiments have to be rejected for ethical reasons. In research laboratories animals are downgraded to disposable tools and testing systems. But, animals, too, must be allowed the right to live according to the basic needs of their species. The torturing and painful killing of animals is immoral. Even if animal experiments had any benefit – which is not the case – they would still be ethically wrong. Rather than concentrating purely on what they can do, medical researchers should also take into account what it is ethical to do.
Animal experiments have to be rejected for medical reasons. are not a valid method of researching the different causes of human diseases nor of developing treatments for such diseases. Animals are artificially damaged to create so-called „models“ which are used to mimic human diseases. Apart from some symptoms these „models“ have hardly any similarities with the human diseases. In the animal experiment factors including environment, nutrition, use of tobacco, social and psychological causes – and especially their interactions – cannot be reproduced. Using animal testing, in spite of millions of animal victims and enormous economic investments the medical research system has failed to make real breakthroughs in the fight against the main diseases of today (e.g. cancer, heart and vascular diseases, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies, AIDS, etc.), contrary to its countless promises.
Animal experiments have to be rejected for scientific reasons. The results of animal experiments cannot be reliably transferred to humans. Animal experiments cannot lead to a reliable conclusion about whether and to what extent the human and animal will react in the same way. In all cases the same test has to be repeated on humans, with unknown risks and unpredictable results. A consequence of this unscientific extrapolation from laboratory animals to humans is that drugs have had to be withdrawn from the market because of unforeseen hazards or even lethal side-effects in humans – effects which were not seen in animals.
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