While there’s been a rise in awareness of the cruelty and absurdity of testing cosmetics on animals, laws mandating testing medications on on animals before clinical trials on humans remain in place worldwide.
This series addresses various facets of animal testing, from the core ethical issues of vivisection, to the question of whether animal experimentation produces scientifically valid results, to the danger animal research poses to humans, to the viable alternatives, to why the practice continues at all.