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{{quote|I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.|''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]''}}
[[Captain Obvious|Animal testing is one of those sticky subjects that should never be brought up at dinner parties]] - unless you really like watching your guests squirm. Some of us wholeheartedly support all animal testing as life saving progress. Others wholeheartedly denounce it as cruel and barbaric. Still more are wildly uncomfortable with the practice itself, but are forced to acknowledge that if it wasn't for (some) animal testing, many of the people we love would not be alive today, making for a moral quandary. On the other hand, many dogs, cats, rats and other sentient creatures have suffered tremendously and died because of animal experimentation (sometimes for trivial reasons), when there may be [https://web.archive.org/web/20110210130652/http://www.aavs.org/researchProblems.html better scientific alternatives].
The media, however, favor the [[Black and White Morality]], so don't expect to see too many shades of grey (it's worth mentioning that they do exist however - see the third group of examples).
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