Another good thing to ask an animal rights protester is whether they ever have, or would ever potentially, use a drug which had been tested on animals. Like it or not, just about all of us have benefitted from such drugs at some point even if we don't remember it.
It's easy for a protester to say they wouldn't use such drugs, but when faced with a life-or-death situation I'll bet they forget their morals and take the drug.
What we have to remember is that in UK law, animal testing for cosmetics is already banned, and testing for medicinal drugs is actually COMPULSORY, so no matter what the protesters do to stop animal testing, all they're doing is forcing the pharmaceutical business to test abroad. It's really pointless. The argument that the suffering of animals to bring drugs to market that prevent the suffering of humans is a perfectly valid one. Especially when the human benefitting is yourself or a loved one, right?
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It's easy for a protester to say they wouldn't use such drugs, but when faced with a life-or-death situation I'll bet they forget their morals and take the drug.
What we have to remember is that in UK law, animal testing for cosmetics is already banned, and testing for medicinal drugs is actually COMPULSORY, so no matter what the protesters do to stop animal testing, all they're doing is forcing the pharmaceutical business to test abroad. It's really pointless. The argument that the suffering of animals to bring drugs to market that prevent the suffering of humans is a perfectly valid one. Especially when the human benefitting is yourself or a loved one, right?