Nella foto: le scimmie sottoposte ad alimentazione forzata per testare i colpi di grasso

I don’t condone animal testing, but is it not interesting that outlets like the DM are suddenly acting like they give a solitary sh1t about animals when it comes to testing weight-loss jabs, but say nothing about it the thousands of other drugs that wouldn’t exist without such testing? 

>’Everyone I worked with cared about the animals but there was little we could do to ease their suffering.

>’I found it almost unbearable at times to know that I was contributing to it.’

>Lab workers sometimes played music to try to distract themselves but it was impossible to ignore the animals distress and ‘intense suffering,’ he said. 

While obvious the difficulties they face is nothing compared to the animals, I think a lot of people are shocked to learn the kind of salaries this sort of work can command. Its a post-grad role requiring licensing and extensive training, it is *incredibly hard* emotionally, and yet its treated like any other technician role in a lot of places and you’ll be struggling to get much past £30k in the career.

That aside, the article is a bit overblown. Animal testing is horrible, everyone acknowledges this, but it is a fundamental part of medical research. Even if its testing the safety of cosmetics, without this step there would be tens of thousands of people out in the world suffering with injuries or illness were this testing not done. In the UK this stuff is *incredibly* tightly regulated and in my own line of work I have been in a position where working with ex vivo samples or putting materials into an in vivo model would have been very helpful for a publication, and its just been impossible to get through the paperwork to sort that. Meanwhile groups in Europe I worked with had daily deliveries of mouse organs and tissues from the medical labs without even having to justify their use, I’m aware a good portion of it just went into the bin though I’m not sure how legal that was. But that would have been a *fucking huge* no no in this country that would have ended someone’s career for sure. In the UK at a minimum you are having to justify every bit of material used and demonstrate the steps you’ve taken to ensure you’re working with the absolute lowest number of test subjects possible for your needs.

You could just get a bunch of bodybuilders who would willingly test unapproved fat loss jabs for you.