Why Animal Experiments must be outlawed not only for ethical reasons but also for medical reasons

Experiments on animals in medical research to apply the experiments' results to human beings does not just harm the animals who suffer terribly (not for nothing this practice is called "vivisection"), but are also dangerous for humans, because it is well known that different animal species (of which we are one) have different reactions to the same substances, medical procedures and all that these experiments entail, and therefore applying the results of animal experiments to humans is an unreliable practice and causes severe problems to human subjects. As the great author Hans Ruesch wrote in his book "Naked Empress, present medical science is accused", "When the drug compamy has demonstrated that a new drug is innocuous to animals, the drug company obtains the authorisation to sell it for human use, after very few clinical trials". There is a long list of pharmaceutical and medical disasters to testify that. One of these disasters was the case of the Talidomide, a tranquilliser invented by the German company Chemie Grunenthal, which after three years of animal experiments on thousands of animals was thought to be so innocuous that its sale even without a medical prescription had been approved in all of West Germany: this was reported by Time magazine on 23-2-1962. This tranqu physiologist, surgeonilliser was not just was one of the many pharmaceutic drugs sold under different labels, but a genuinely new product, and therefore the preventative tests on animals - as the lawsuit which followed demonstrated - had been particularly conscientious and widespread. It is interesting that scientists themselves, among whom the celebrated physiologist, surgeon and doctor Sie Charles Bell, have remarked that this research method is anti-scientific exactly because it is inhumane: because it is practised by insensitive or hardened people, in whom the most equisite human qaulities have been destroyed or never existed, sensitivity being a component, and a minimal one, of human intelligence. The thalidomide pharmaceutical drug, which caused 10,000 deformed babies as well as causing irreversible peripheral neuropathy in innumerable adults, is a totally innocuous substance for nearly all animal species, whereas the innocuous Aspirin, which mankind has consummed in enormous quantities for more than a century, causes deformed births in rats. Manufacturers of Entero-Vioformio, largely used by men, recommend not to give it to pets and farm animals, for whom it can be deadly.