Humans should not be doing experiments on animals, without fully considering the possible benefit to the animal.

I am not sure really this is my idealistic opinion on what we ought to do. But I guess we could have slow progress waiting until animals need to get a certain type of experiment on but it would take a long time to get enough of them and would be difficult to ensure that the experiment is a good experiment. I guess there might be a halt in progress for some time in areas of biology sciences, and medicine and related areas. And slow or no progress in biology and medicine would probably not be that good for humans because it would be to the benefit of us to increase our knowledge in that area. Especially for medical treatments to diseases and conditions that we do not have any or good cures for.

We could possibly do some computer simulations, microdosing, in-vitro tests, and stuff like a organ on a chip which is newly emerging field. But I am not really a expert in these areas. And there might be some other ways to experiment without animals that I missed.

But in the future it is most likely that these alternatives to animal testing will be much better than animal testing. Because animal testing does not correlate to humans necessarily so that is why other testing besides animals needs to be done to make sure it is safe.

But I think that it would be possible to increase our scientific knowledge in biology areas and medicine, without animal testing but it might happen more slowly and it might be challenging to do the initial experiments but I am not fully sure tho.

I am fine with stuff like doing tagging on animals for conservation tho since that is to help the conservation of the animals and the ecosystems.

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