is animal testing right?

... Do we really need a new loo cleaner? Would you kill for another shampoo? More than 2.7 million live animal experiments were authorized in Great Britain in 2002 alone. I ask is this a fair price to pay for a clean toilet? Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from shampoo to new cancer drugs. But sometime these drugs are not assured to be safe as animals are under so much stress that it can affect the results of the test. Others say that "almost every medical treatment you use has been tested on animals including anesthetics to prevent human pain and suffering during surgery; without animal testing these drugs could not been used safely." Also that "Operations on animals helped to develop organ transplant and open-heart surgery, surgical techniques like these would not have been developed as easily without animal testing." Scientists claim there are no

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