Animal Testing and PETA's Stand

             Medical testing on animals has been around for a long time. Since the third century when Greeks studied and tested on pigs and goats, but does that make it right? PETA or People for Ethnic Treatment of Animals is highly against animal testing saying that " more lives can be saved by educating people on the importance of avoiding fat and cholesterol...."  Fat and cholesterol are not the only deadly forces met by human kind . Its is estimated that 50,000 people die from potentially vaccine preventable diseases each year just in america! vaccines are almost always directly created by animal testing , preventing all those deaths.

             PETA also states in the same article this quote George Bernard Shaw once said, "You do not settle whether an experiment is justified or not by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments, but between barbarous and civilized behavior." According to PETA its civilized to throw thousands of lives to their preventable deaths just to save a few rats. Animal testing is necessary.