The Telegraph
reports that drug and cosmetics firms intend to cut down on animal testing. - So drug firms and cosmetics firms are going to cut down on animal tests, are they? - Let's hope so! There's been horrifying cruelty along the way. And precious little benefit to the health or safety of the humans the testing is purported to protect.
Does testing drugs on animals result in safer drugs for people? - You're kidding! - What then has been the purpose of testing on animals the drugs intended for use by people? - The purpose of the testing has been to pretend that it makes drugs safer for people, and, most importantly, to allow the drugs eventually to be manufactured and sold.
I
entreat you to read
this internet article from many years ago. It's only two pages.
PLEASE read it! And most especially please read the second page, which includes a speech by
Mrs Babs Diplock, a steroid victim and courageous campaigner who well recognised the uselessness of animal experiments and vivisection. At the time that she gave this speech she was incurably ill with a host of adverse side-effects from taking prescribed steroids. Before she died she developed further side-effects - diabetes and blindness. - Twenty years since her speech, these and other deadly prescribed drugs are destroying more and more innocent lives, and Glaxo is still reaping huge profits from its ghastly pharmaceuticals. Let her words speak to you through time and be warned. -
You cannot trust drug manufacturers. - Avoid pharmaceutical drugs unless they are absolutely necessary. Take them in as small a dose and for as short a time as possible. Report any side-effects.
