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Old 11-02-2008, 12:24 PM   #41 (permalink)
jillio
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Personally, I support animal based research because of my mother. After all, without animal research, how can we find cures for terminal illnesses like cancer? We obviously can't experiment on humans because of liability, so how else do you propose that we conduct the research?

And as for the last sentence in your post, that is purely speculation, nothing more.
Exactly. Those who oppose animal research have yet tocome up with a viable alternative. Is it more humane to experiment on people, or to allow people to die because we have not experiemented with treatments at all?
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