As someone who works in laboratory animal science, I couldn't agree more. It's a very barbaric practice. So, by all means, feel free to step up and offer yourself as a test subject whenever you're ready.

Yeah, we won't be there anytime soon.

I think there will be ways to use that technology efficiently without having to grow complete humans. It gets really problematic when you need a brain and unfortunately a brain is quite important in many cases. As long as you can just hook up a piece of meat that more or less resembles a human body to a computer and do some testing then I don't see a problem, but when you involve the brain you add things like conscience and advances stuff like that to your equation and it all becomes a big mess. Of course, just the idea of recreating a human brain lies probably atleast a hundred years into the future so we won't face that epic dilemma just yet...

You're right, and a hundred years in the future is probably a very hopeful estimation. 

Science will probably find a way to circumvent the problem, like creating tissue that functions with the systematic structure of the brain and has the same basic chemistry, without the implications of actually creating a working brain that can correlate conscience and higher thought. As long as the tissue is usable for performing the same tests as in a normal brain, that would be the ideal scenario.

what if the pains longer than 6 seconds? god people like you piss me off

why is the cockroaches rights anyless than anything else?

Get over it.

I can see the concern on your side. I do however argue that in this day in age new drugs and advancements in curing diseases requires some kind of testing on biological living creatures. Animals are more similar in function and DNA than say an insect is. For the best results to finding cures for diseases we need to use animals. Will you still feel the same if one day through preclinical testing the cure for a major disease is discovered?

I would however state that animal testing should be done in a very humane way in a regulated environment to assure their proper treatment. Brutally abusing and animal cruelty should not be accepted. Animal testing gives mankind key knowlege that could unlock cures or important methods that can save many human lives. It has already resluted in saving human lives.

It's a toughie isn't it? Test on animals or test on humans?

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-goldfish-memory-minimyth.html

Goldfish have memories that last at the very least days, not seconds. They almost certainly can remember things for months/years, but that has not been proved AFAIK.

I'm not a fan of testing on monkeys etc, but other animals are okay with me (sorry guys)

humans are animals, too

and the way humans are acting today.... makes them worse than animals