uge conservatism. Until then, any alternative method no matter what it is should be taken in consideration. Cruel animal testing has gone on for many years. There are too many alternatives that can test the same way an animal can. With all the medicines that were tested to work but didnt on humans, I wonder how many potentially useful drugs have been needlessly abandoned because animal test falsely suggested inefficacy or toxicity (internet resource). The killing of innocent animals is not the key to finding out if a product is harmful, whenever possible an alternative method should be used....