Testing on Animals

So there’s no real way I can state my opinon on animal testing without sounding hypocritical. My opinion is of course that I am against all animal testing. It doesn’t depend on the cuteness of the animal I just think we (humans) are ignorant to do so. For one, the anatomy of an animal is mostly different from ours. Although our nervous system may be like a rats or something of ours is similar to a beagles, they’re still not the same.

But if someone is against testing on animals yet still eats meat, does that make them hypocritical?
In some ways yes it does because I’m against killing animals through testing, yet I’ll eat a cow.
However, part of our food chain is meat and duh we’re gonna have to get that from cows, chickens, fish, etc. It’s our human nature to eat meat. Sure vegitarianism is fine and usually healthy but our NATURAL food source comes from animals. And those who eat meat, do not slaughter the animal. So if the animal is going to be slaughtered anyway, why waste the protein?

So, you see, eating animals is a natural thing and can’t make you hypocritical if you’re against animal testing because killing animals through testing is a completely different thing. It is NOT in our human nature to kill animals just to see effects.
Sure, we find out a lot of stuff and ways to cure certain diseases, but you’re still killing an innocent being for no good reason.

So if you don’t test on animals, how would we find the information out about curing diseases?
Some say, test on humans. Well, no one really is going to colunteer for that unless they have major problems and don’t mind suicide. We’d probably be a lot more successful in finding cures, by testing on humans but we’re oh so important so we just can’t.

If you don’t want to test human volunteers, why not test people on death row who are going to die anyway?
Although its really not that bad of an idea because they’re going to die anyway, there’s still something wrong. It just doesn’t seem right. I can’t really think of an argument why this is nuts but it just kinda is.

I guess what I’m getting at is, why test on humans or animals. Why can’t scientists just be smart enough to stick with plants and other organisms to find their cures. Why bring animals into it?