I can't believe all the direct lies that are being told through this very website! Animals suffer! I can guarantee that, I have seen it happen. You are lying to everyone! Animal research is unnecessary, since humans have developed better ways to do the same research, and get more accurate results! Treating animals with respect does not give you any better results--so you torture them just for the fun of it! I am so disgusted with everything I read on this website! Just know that millions of animals are tortured everyday, and you lying about it isn't going to help it become ''fake.''

Thank you, animal research, for decreasing the surplus population with your wonderful work, that makes absolutely no sense to continue doing now that there are methods with synthetics that actually react like human tissues do. I would like to name my favorite drugs that have done so much to sustain life after animal research painted then to be so great and safe: Thalidomide, accutane, DES, zomax, ritalin, oxycontin, and the original polio vaccine. Thanks guys, keep up the good work.

I would like to follow up on my last comment by saying that my only real problem with animal testing does not lay with mice, or rabbits, but in chimpanzees. I say that with reservation, because most facilities take adequate care of them providing good food with plenty of physical and mental stimulation. The problem comes when this is not the case. It is also my opinion that all apes that feel mental and physical pain similar to humans should have a set retirement after an X number of years of testing so they are able to live out their lives in peace with a shred of normality.

@Lindsay and James. I support animal research, but what you are saying along with that ridiculous sign-up sheet is not only arrogant, but also ignorant. Yes almost every medical pill, shot, or inhalant has in one way or another been tested on animals, but most (not all) of animals were used to make sure the drug did what it was intended to do after the invention and creation of the drug. You and this entire site in general make it sound like all this animal testing was completely vital to the creation of all these drugs, but this is simply not the case. Not all animals will react the same way to a drug as humans which is why after it is tested on animals it is then tested on a small numbers of humans called clinical trials.

hello personaly i belive that you should not be testing on inoccent aimals. i love all animas even ants. also i like to kiss animals, they are cute xx :)

@all of the previous dissenters I second what James said. The only way you can make your point is to stop using all medical advances/ medications/ vaccinations/ etc that were developed with the help of research animals. That means no vaccines for your kids, no rabies vaccine for your dog, no tylenol for your headache. Period. Also, no exterminating the insects that invade your home (those count too, right? You can't be choosey about which animals are off limits). All of this or you're a big fat hypocrite. If it's so important to you, you better start by doing YOUR part, and stop utilizing the products these animals helped develop. ALL OF THEM.

uncaged is a great book.

@Marty I completely agree with you. As a person who hires those who do this type of life-saving research I know all too well how most people don't understand the half of what goes into pre-clinical research. 1) The FDA (not big pharma) REQUIRES pre-clinical research. 1 rodent species and 1 non-rodent species. If you have such a problem go scream at the FDA and then volunteer yourself to see if you might go blind from the new chick pox vaccine! 2) Prior to ANY pre-clinical testing ALL compounds must go through extensive early development testing (cell cultures etc.) So the animals are relatively safe. There is no way to know for sure how an animal model may react to something, but that's the whole point.

@Gina Because medical research only ever saves one life. Are you daft? Rats specifically bred for laboratory testing are more valuable to you than human lives? It's not like rats are killed by exterminators every damn day or anything. And how would you rather they advertise, exactly?

I am completely appalled by the billboard advertisement over the University bridge. If you are trying to state an honest message- why didn't you show approximately 100,000 mice to one 'saved' girl? The fact that your organization is demonstrating a complete disregard for the life of a species of this planet does NOT correlate to a demonstration of your caring for another. I work for a non-profit and this is a ridiculously irresponsible waste of what I imagine is a sparse advertising budget. I find this repulsive on multiple levels.