Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made an announcement that has animal rights activists cheering. According to a release from the FDA, animal testing is being phased out. In the release, the FDA said:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking a groundbreaking step to advance public health by replacing animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs with more effective, human-relevant methods. The new approach is designed to improve drug safety and accelerate the evaluation process, while reducing animal experimentation, lowering research and development (R&D) costs, and ultimately, drug prices.
The FDA’s animal testing requirement will be reduced or possibly replaced with AI-based computational models of toxicity and cell lines and organoid toxicity testing in a laboratory setting. FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H. said:
“By leveraging AI-based computational modeling, human organ model-based lab testing, and real-world human data, we can get safer treatments to patients faster and more reliably, while also reducing R&D costs and drug prices. It is a win-win for public health and ethics.”
Kathy Guillermo, PETA senior vice president, said:
PETA applauds the FDA’s decision to stop harming animals and adopt human-relevant testing strategies for evaluating antibody therapies.
Unnecessary, painful animal testing has caused emotional distress to animal lovers for decades. While some testing may have been deemed necessary, other animal experiments seem to be nothing more than outright cruelty – the FDA’s recent announcement is an excellent step in the right direction.
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Biden cared about us, Kamala cares about us. “We” care about the animals. Remember what our ‘beloved’ President Obama said about us ? I am still trying not to. Trump deserves credit for the FDA ruling only ONLY. Period. He cares NOT for US. Now I ask, “What else does he got ???”
My God, you people are all crazy.
You know absolutely NOTHING about how government or politics actually works.
I wish people who care about the treatment of animals would assign the guilt where it belongs to Dr. Fauci who helped the Corona Virus to start in China and used it as an excuse to conduct horrific experiments as an excuse for combating the virus they helped to create which killed millions worldwide. I believe this happened under the Biden Administration.
Not only this, but Trump’s EPA is also phasing out and de-funding animal (toxicity) testing in favor of real science, something they did in Trump’s last term, but which Biden quickly UNDID and happily funneled millions of taxpayer dollars back into animal torture. The “progressive” animal lovers had zilch to say about that as far as I know.
Trump did not do this. Peta, Beagle freedom project and white coats waste and many others did this. Rump could have passed it during his first term but was too busy crying about a rigged election. So it was put off. Biden picked it up again but had to start at the beginning of getting it through the house and senate. But it was promised the FDA would slowly end testing and retool for other new methods. But during Bidens last months he was waiting for it to hit his desk. But trump told his morons to not vote on anything that might make Biden look good. So thanks to trump animals have had to wait 5 extra years. And he hasn’t signed it yet. Rump did the a similar thing with a law Obama passed. Rump took credit for all of it even tho he just closed a loophole. Not the best president not even close. But I will be happy if it gets done as I have been trying to get it done with the others since 2000. I have even been arrested for protesting a lab. Which is way more than rump has ever done for anything.
TDS rages on. Biden had reinstated massive funding for the EPA’s toxicity “testing” in animals after Trump’s admin had de-funded it, leading to howling and fear mongering from your media. But don’t let truth get in the way of hating Bad Orange Man. Jimmy Kimmel et al are surely proud of you though.
@Rose thank you! I do not support Biden as he reversed a lot of animal things and he supports animal testing so I do not care for him either (But Trump does not do anything for the good of others. He is a selfish freak and its all part of his agenda), but I donate to some animal charities and volunteered. The Beagle Freedom Project and White Coat Waste which I have donated to in the past kind of got wishy washy for me. WCW has been biased lately so I stopped supporting them. But yes the animal activists have been fighting for the Research Modernization Deal to be first.
THANK YOU Rose, for being an intelligent person who knows the truth.
I cannot believe how pitifully ignorant people are about Trump.
Frankly, NO president has ever really been good about animal issues – all the real social changes comes from a committed public, people like you and me, who activate for animals.
But Trump is a nightmare in every possible way and I am just gobsmacked at how stupendously stupid most people are about him – sadly, especially animal people who really ought to know better.
He will go down in history as the worst president EVER.
Trump promised to stop the VA animal testing in his past administration, did not happen. Please someone explain to me why WHY Washington state Primate Research Facility Scientist Margaret Livingston received a Government funded Grant for $240. Billion dollars to take newborn baby monkeys away from their mothers keeping them secluded and sew their eyelids closed for one year/Or Take the newborn baby monkeys away from their mothers keeping them secluded and place strobe light goggles over their eyes for one year??? All while 240 Geological Scientists were recently fired by the Trump Administration. Trumpers are quick to pat themselves on the back and toot their own horns but what about this “?”
@K B Yes I have been following the stories on Livingstone. She is a monster like Harry Harlow. Evil bitch who is basically doing the story of Britches all over again. Those people need to die. We also need to mention the disgusting billionaires Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Telegram, who are allowing literal TORTURE on their platforms for monkey haters and abuse towards cats and dogs and fake rescues. Please support Lady Freethinker they are one of the charities suing YouTube!
You just used God’s name in vain. What does that say about you?
People change through the years. I sincerely hope you and your language change.
The commentator below did not say “God damn 🤬” but “God damn.”
It was not stated in anger unless you heard the audio part which I haven’t figured out how to turn on yet ??
We have really had it up to here with you “holier than thou” types, make yourself actual useful and go help an animal instead of criticizing people who are genuinely helping and making a helluva difference.
@Emily Tilley Who gives a shit? Not everyone believes in YOUR Sky Daddy. There are many RELIGIONS not only yours snowflake. That is what America was supposed to be about. Having your own identity, religion, beliefs, free speech. But now only certain groups get that privilege.
Wow yay it’s about time! Thank you Trump!!!
Trump, and even less, Kennedy, didn’t do a God-damned THING to push this forward. Any REAL animal rights activist who has been working hard on this issue KNOWS this has been worked on for YEARS and YEARS, even before the Biden administration. PETA has actually done the most to move this forward.
Let me tell you how little Trump gives a damn about the suffering of animals – when he first took office in 2016, one of the first bills on his desk to sign as new president was a bill to ban the cruelty of soring. This is absolutely BRUTAL torture done to Tennessee Walking Horses to make them step higher (a natural characteristic of the breed). There is a normal way to train them to step high, but the torturous method – called the Big Lick – uses acid, chains, and super-heavy shoes to TORMENT the horses into stepping high out of PAIN. (I swear, people must lay awake nights thinking up ways to be miserable to animals)
It took MANY YEARS of activists working hard to get this bill to the point of FINALLY being signed into law, and it was on the new president’s desk for signature – it was ready to be published in the Federal Register. The bill was on top of the stack, to be the first one Trump signed. HE THREW IT IN THE TRASH. Never even bothered to read it. Never asked about it. Nada.
This man cares nothing about people. He cares even less about animals. He never had pets, his kids are trophy hunters who break the wildlife laws.
Many unsung heroes persevering for years are the ones who are making this possible.
Beth, you are absolutely right, thank you!
Woops, this should’ve gone under Beth’s comment.
@ABS314 applause exactly but these MAGA cultist sexist racist vile troglodytes will continue to support him because they just want white males to rule society.
There are a few of us here who aren’t Trumpsucking @$$holes andknow what he is.
I know the vast majority of people are stupendously stupid, but even allowing for mass ignorance, I just don’t understand how any person would vote for this piece of shit. They’re even too dumb to understand how he’s destroying things NOW.
I hope one way or another, he doesn’t make it through 4 years.
@ABS314 I know. It has been shocking to see how much hate is in this country. Most states are Republitards. Even my own mother who is Mexican with a stepdad who was a fucking illegal is a Trump lover LMAO. If she were not blood. I would cut her out of my life. I will not entertain anyone who has such disgusting views. He is also destroying the wildlife and environment, but of course MAGA only cares about themselves and the cost of their shitty eggs. Which I believe meat and eggs should be hella expensive since we are torturing animals to eat. They literally only care about themselves and their own families. They don’t care about the future generations, the environment, animals, nothing. They preach why can’t we all just get along and everyone has a right to their own opinions. It is ridiculous you would judge me and not associate with me any longer for having an opinion. Ummm my opinions are not literally taking RIGHTS from other people. They hate government, yet have some non American ugly billionaire spreading his seed and leaving baby mommas in his wake which contradicts their traditional role families. All their bible banging stance, etc are all hypocritical. They only pick and choose what they want. They don’t want women to have a safe legal option for abortion, but could care less about helping kids and providing for them in foster care once they are born and are cutting education which is our future. I never wanted kids, but I am ok giving to them for their futures and I fully support paying college tuition. Trump wants them all to be dumb like in the South so he can easily manipulate and control his sheep. Education is the only thing that progresses our country, but all he wants is to teach his religion. It will be the HandMaids Tale where women and other races will have no rights and be slaves. It is pretty damn scary what is happening and how we as the American people are allowing it. They have some blind loyal allegiance that no matter what facts you present. They will not falter. I did not vote for either, but one is worse than the other and I thought Biden and Obama were shit too. Anyways hope you have a nice Easter!
Yes! President Trump and Pam Bondi adore animals! Pam is fighting hard to lengthen dog fighters sentences. THANK YOU JESUS FOR BLESSING US WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS STAFF!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ WE APPLAUD THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION 🐕🐶🐒🐩🐹🐀🐰🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Beth, you are absolutely right, thank you!
THANK GOD FOR OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION ! ROBERT F. KENNEDY I’M SURE HELPED THIS ALONG.
MAY THE BEAUTIFUL LOVING CREATURES OF GOD LIVE IN 🙏 PEACE AND NOT BE TORTURED BY THE LIKES OF FAUCI WHO TORTURED AND KILLED BEAGLE PUPPIES FOR HIS SATANIST APPETITE MAY FAUCI AND THOSE OF HIS ILK SUCH AS JOHN HOPKINS SATANTIST “SHREESH MYSORE” WHO TORTURED AND KILLED OWLS BURN 🔥 IN THE FIERY PITS OF HELL !
I’m with you Ken dog. Biden Pelosi Fauci etc were/are all criminals on what they did and allowed to do on poor innocent animals for their pathetic paychecks ! Hurray to trump and to hell with those disgusting lowlifes who did nothing to help these animals from their suffering and murders! They should be jailed and now we can take care of these poor innocent creatures that need us!
Please, DON’T give the TRUMP Regime credit for ANYTHING GOOD!! This probably all started under the BIDEN Administration!
Are you serious? What did Biden ever do for the animals?
The commentator below did not say “God damn 🤬” but “God damn.”
It was not stated in anger unless you heard the audio part which I haven’t figured out how to turn on yet ??
We have really had it up to here with you “holier than thou” types, make yourself actual useful and go help an animal instead of criticizing people who are genuinely helping and making a helluva difference.
Laugh out loud. Most of the time Biden doesn’t know where he’s at.President Trump is doing a great job,and will continue to do so. It’s a shame that he doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
LOL, the TDS is strong. See my other replies for some unwanted truth. I’m so sick of this.
He only cares about the dogs and cats, but not farm animals and other creatures. I think Trump is a vile racist and sexist abhorrent thing, BUT, I will applaud him for doing SOMETHING against this animal testing shit which I am fully against. How easily the FDA now suddenly can replace with the relevant technology that has been out for a LONG time now and PETA has been proposing their Research Modernization Deal for a bit now to the Senate and not sure why the trash in Congress and these NIH and USDA, etc do not fully look into the future. I hope PETA can now utilize this to vouch more for this plan.
Shut up. He has done more for animals than you realize, AND FOR OUR COUNTRY. You are a horrible person.
Shut up. He has done more for animals than you realize, AND FOR OUR COUNTRY. You are a horrible person.
Nate; no matter what Trump does they’ll condemn him for not doing it ALL, and when Biden re-funded the EPA’s toxicity “testing” in animals after Trump’s last admin had de-funded it, not a peep from these people. TDS is really nasty. Look out for the Vixen’s wrath though…she’s a real dragon lady.
@Laura Oh no the old c*** hag again with her bootlicking Trump loving. Did I say I supported Biden? No STFU with your idiotic rhetoric. You are the insane one who supports a monster who hates everyone who is not a white male. You are even more pathetic for being a women. But you were probably those white women who voted for him. Enjoy going back to the 1950s and your tariffs for higher cost of living!
Wow, I thought such horrible conduct was against rules here. Oh well. https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/verbalabuseinrelationships/2021/4/dealing-with-random-verbal-abuse-from-strangers
@Nate Umm have you seen what is going on? You’re delusional. He only cut the spending because he feels its a waste not cuz he cares about animals. Either way did you read my message. I said I am glad for it! Go cry to your MAGA daddy.