Animal testing is barbaric!

[lestatdark]

Ps3 said:

I mean it. How can people do the things they do to animals? I say it's wrong, horrible, and morally wrong!

I agree to some extent.

In the cases of the cosmetic industry and some cases in the pharmaceutical/therapeutical researchs, were animals like chimpanzees, rabbits, lambs and pigs are used, i'm completely against, especially since more than 50% of those researchs can be done in stem cells or monoclonic cells. 

Now in the cases were the special bred laboratory mice are used (toxicology reports, genomic studies, cancer studies and so on), then those tests are completely necessary. Not only it would be impossible to use stem cells to such an extent (most toxicology reports can use over 500 mice, so it's economically unviable to use stem cells in the amounts of millions, and let's not talk about the amount of stem tissue needed). Also, those mice are specially bred for those purposes, since they're not a species that can be found in the wild. 

Plus, there are some cases that simply cannot be tested on humans directly, unless you're willing to be ethically and morally responsable (and let's not talk about the pure sociological backlash a full non-proved human study would do, it would be a lawsuit galore) for the probable death of hundreds of tests subjects. 

Animal testing is fundamentally wrong in the cases that it is not needed, but unfortunately there are cases in which is strictly required (again, following ethical regulations and the aformentioned lab mice). Would you allow yourself, morally, to anull all those tests and use humans tests subjects solely?