There aren't enough murderers and rapists to go around for the amount of medical testing needed. Testing doesn't take place one animal-per-drug/procedure. You need thousands of them for a viable test spectrum, and the testing has to be done for several years to see if there are any long-term effects: medical testing is a process of problem elimination. That is why rats and rabbits are generally used, because you can breed a bunch in no time, and you can make clones which are useful. You can't do that with human beings - they're only useful for the most final tests.
Animal testing is necessary in my view. And it's going to be even more necessary in the near future.
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