Animal Testing - do you support it?

Today Morrissey (and others such as Joanna Lumley) put their name to a petition calling for an end to animal testing for cosmetics sold in the European Union. I too have signed it as I feel Animal Testing for such trivial ****e as make-up is quite despicable. More than that, I am actually against all forms of experiments on animals that cause suffering as I just don't think humans are that important quite frankly.

Here's an extract from an article today regarding the above:

- Morrissey, the singer and former Smith, has signed a petition run by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection calling for an end to animal testing for new cosmetics sold in the European Union. "Say no to injecting, force-feeding or forcing animals to inhale substances for a new lipstick or shampoo," he said. "Please join me in signing the Buav No Cruel Cosmetics petition to stop the sale of new animal-tested cosmetics in the EU."

I do eat meat though (non-intensively raised) and I suppose some would see a contradiction there in that I must think humans are more important than animals if I am willing to take their lives in order to live. My response would be that there is a vast difference to killing an animal humanely for sustenance and making it suffer some quite barbaric experimentation, no matter what good for mankind is ultimately yielded as a result.

I think the extremely low budget film Bold Native (below) was certainly a catalyst in where my thinking is now, but perhaps you can change my mind and convince me that the undeniable cruelty that is done to animals in the name of medical research is somehow worth it - I doubt it, but be interesting to see.




So what says you ..

Do you support Animal Testing in all it's forms?
Including if carried out by cosmetic companies?
Or do you only support it when done in the field of medical research?
If so, to further the understanding of all illnesses?
Or just major ones such as cancer/paralysis?