Millions of dollars have been harvested and tens of thousands of humans have been mobilized to assail animal experimentation on moral grounds . While I believe, in a sane society, a moralistic appeal should be adequate to end this practice, this is corporate capitalist America, the Land of Denial . Thus, it is high time for animal rights advocates , and any human worth the name , to re-evaluate the ethics approach. However, if it can be established that such experiments are not only morally vacant, but scientifically specious as well, the hunter becomes the hunted, if you'll pardon the expression. Yet, the same guinea pigs can safely eat strychnine, one of the deadliest poisons for humans but not for monkeys.
Sheep can swallow enormous amounts of arsenic, once the murderers' favorite poison.
Potassium cyanide, deadly to humans, is harmless to owls. The list goes on. The truth is that animal experimentation has not cured a single human disease. Even a cursory glance at the large number of pharmaceutical drugs pulled from the shelves by the Food and Drug Administration will offer a clue as to how ineffectual animal experimentation is. Universities, hospitals, the pharmaceutical and health care industries, politicians, lobbyists, private corporations, and celebrity dupes like Jerry Lewis and Christopher Reeve gain wealth and prestige thanks to animal experimentation.