Animal experiments
Tagged: animal, animalsThe results of studies on animals provide suggestive associations to humans, but for each nutritional biochemical process some or many animals may not be suitable models for humans. For example, rats do not need vitamin C in their diet because they synthesize it in their bodies from glucose. For a model of human scurvy, therefore, rats cannot be used. Only a very small number of higher animals are similar to humans in that they lack the enzyme to complete the synthesis of vitamin C. In 1907 it was discovered in Norway that guinea pigs must have vitamin C in their diets; research on vitamin C made rapid progress after this.
I do not believe in animal experimentation of any kind, it is cruel, barbaric, and just plain inhumane, there are other ways to advance knowledge without hurting innocent animals.