"I'd happily club a million bunnies to save my child."
Whatabout juvenile chimps? Would ya club a million of them?
Only semi-joking Nigel. And I do too believe it all comes down to personal choice. I used an anti-inflammatory drug for 2 years because I couldn't walk without it, and I could see that if I used it then I would be able to restore my ability and maybe see the other side of the pain. This was in tandem with a host of natural treatments and diet, but not one thing alone could hve been as effective as all combined. The point is, would I have chosen differently if I'd known they'd kneecapped chimpanzees to test? Answer - I can't say with certainty. I think I would have tried everything else (being a human testing zone meself) and found something natural that worked - and then campaigned against testing diclofenac on animals. Then promote the natural remedy.
Every case is different I know. If we could find a drug that would cure my wife and then found it was tested on dogs, she says she wouldn't take it. I can only admire such integrity. I would of course slip pills in her mouth as she slept.
Its a sticky issue for sure.
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