“It is wrong to treat weaker human beings, especially those who are lacking normal human intelligence, as tools or renewable resources or models or commodities, then it cannot be right, therefore, to treat other animals as tools, models and the like.” (“Animals in Research - Issues and Conflicts”; Page 88. Tom Regan, “The Case for Animal Rights”; University of California Press, 1983). The United States Federal law does not require any tobacco products to be tested on animal, and it has been illegal to test animals since 1997 in Britain but experiments on thousands animals are still being performed on animals. Also for decades now all cigarette companies have hid behind their animal experiments. In ignorance that everything we have come to know about smoking related illnesses and lung cancer has come from human clinical studies. Not the experimentation of helpless animals.
How are animal experiments at all helpful to humans anyway? There is not at all an absolute......
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