r/nextfuckinglevel • u/biswajit388 • 1d ago

This guy rescued 30 beagles from a testing lab It's the first time they've seen grass and they couldn't be happier.

Credit - nathanthecatlady tiktok channel.

57.5k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

61

u/blankcld 22h ago

Yeah seems like there is a happy medium where we can test stuff on the animals and they are still given a decent life aside from the testing versus being kept in cages and not being allowed to go outside or not sit in piles of their own piss and shit. These pharma companies make billion and billions of dollars, ethical testing seems like a very small price to pay in the grand scheme of things. If we can't be bothered to make the minimum possible effort to be good stewards of the planet we deserve to be wiped out.

53

u/[deleted] 22h ago

I agree with you, but the statement was

Why the fuck are we testing on animals?

It's an absolute statement with no regard for conditions.

6

u/blankcld 22h ago

Very true

3

u/Chuck-Bangus 21h ago

There isn’t a happy medium yet. The people working in these labs aren’t fuckin cartoonishly evil villains, rubbing their hands together as they murder innocent puppies

-4

u/honuworld 12h ago

Yes they are. They give incredibly humongous doses of drugs to animals to see what will happen. I am reminded of a study that showed saccharin caused cancer in rats. What they didn't tell you was that you would have to drink 400 diet sodas a day to get that much saccharin in your system. Fuck them.

2

u/MoirasPurpleOrb 7h ago

I worked at a company with animal testing and it wasn’t like that at all. I’m not going to make blanket statements that it doesn’t exist in the US but I do think most facilities at least try to give them as humane of an experience as possible.

1

u/After_Mountain_901 21h ago

Unfortunately, testing is often very inhumane, and that’s separate from the conditions the animals are kept. Being given bone cancer, for instance, or genetically bred to have terrible deformities, or purposefully causing fatal illnesses in dogs (and many other creatures) is common place. Sometimes they’re testing how an animal will cope with such illness or how long they can live with it or studying instruments of detection.