Animal Testing Alternatives Quotes

Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.

There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that profit by supplying laboratory animals and equipment, have been able to convince legislators and the public that opposition comes from uninformed fanatics who consider the interests of animals more important than the interests of human beings.

Scientists should not do animal testing if there is any alternative, but subject to that, I would support it on grounds of the medical benefits.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Animal research saves lives, but wherever possible alternatives should be used

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.

It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.

If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.

Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.