Rescued Research Beagles Experience Life Outside A Cage For The First Time

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. I'm afraid your "surely" is not true.

There are lots of things that one can find out about a chemical without live testing, but ultimately you're going to kill more humans and save fewer lives if you use medicines that haven't been tested on animals on humans.

At present, animal testing of medicines is an unpleasant necessity to save human lives.

As new alternatives are developed, the extent to which that is true will continue to decrease (and the number of things that can be tested on fish rather than mice, mice rather than dogs, dogs rather than monkeys etc will continue to increase), as it has been decreasing, but, sadly we're a long way from it ceasing to be true altogether.

I don't know what "rescued" means here, but if - as it often is - it's a euphemism for "stolen from people trying to save human lives" then it's not something to celebrate.