what is your opinion on animal testing? do you test on animals? what is your reasoning for this?

Question: what is your opinion on animal testing? do you test on animals? what is your reasoning for this?
- Keywords:
  animal testing,
  ethical,
  research
Asked by lozzy140701 to Pierre, Lisa, Kate, Jos, Joe on 10 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by Jemma, 464tema26.
- Kate Dobson answered on 10 Nov 2014:
  
  Luckily with volcano based research we don’t have to make difficult decisions like these. My own position on animal testing is that while we should do everything possible to reduce it, I can see that while we are unwilling to test on people, we have no option. Great medical breakthroughs are only possible with lots of testing to make sure we understand what we are doing.
- Lisa Simmons answered on 10 Nov 2014:
  
  I think Kate has given a great answer here. I’m very much the same, my work doesn’t require any medical testing. Even the teeth that we work on have been dug up from centuries ago. I do however, think that it is necessary at times to work on medical breakthroughs that we know little about.

Question: what is your opinion on animal testing? do you test on animals? what is your reasoning for this?