Quote Originally Posted by Rye
There are actually proven ways that work, such as using a certain vegetable for some sort of eye testing instead ripping the eyes out of the poor animals and others. I read about them because my brother was doing a report about animal testing.
And there are also ways of testing certain cancer therapies on yeast cells. But the truth of the matter is that it will have to be tested on a mammal at some point. I do this stuff for a living. If someone brought to the scientific community some eye treatment based entirely on the workings of vegetables, he/she would be laughed out of the country. All scientific measures are started in single cellular or low multi-cellular organisms. To start research on a mouse would be insane. But eventually, you are going to have to test stuff on a system parallel to that of a what you are trying to treat. If you are trying to treat something with an eye, say a human, you can't base your research entirely on something that doesn't have an eye, say a carrot. You can do preliminary testing on a carrot, it's actually what goes on in general. But you are going to have to test this on something with an eye, and that testing can throw variables in that you didn't see before and more testing is going to need to be done. People have been working of cancer related stuff for years, and they always start their research in yeast, it's a very good environment for these tests. But, if you want viable data to use, you are going to have to go beyond yeast into a mammal. Don't think that scientist like to work with mice or anything. If we could all work with yeast we would. It's simple, cost efficient, and very effective. But the truth of the matter is we can't, because the data from yeast simply isn't enough.