Animals and science - Vital tests must be policed

USING animals for medical experiments is one of those volatile, touchstone issues where the debate is informed by a lot of emotion and more often than not, little enough reason or compassion.

There seems little ground for compromise, little room for mutual acceptance. You either approve or you don’t.

Just like many other processes humanity is obliged to involve itself in to sustain itself with either food, warmth or medicines, it would be wonderful if there were alternative processes that did not have such a negative impact on some of the world’s other inhabitants.