Javier B. Burgos

About the author: Javier B. Burgos is the president of The Nature of Wellness, an organization devoted to informing the public about the medical and scientific invalidity of animal experimentation and testing.

Since every species is unique, it is absurd to believe that human diseases or ailments can be cured by applying information garnered from animal experimentation. Animal models have not supplied useful information about threatening human diseases such as AIDS, cross-species transplants have ended in costly failures, and drugs tested safe on animals have proven deadly when consumed by humans. Common sense should dictate that these medical tactics are unsound and potentially disastrous.

If your dog Fido got sick and were dying, do you think it would be scientifically possible, and I mean scientifically possible, to find a cure for your dog by conducting research on...