It is interesting that you don't see it from the perspective that while animal research is necessary to help to create drugs and treatments to help to combat all of the myriad major and minor illnesses which are prevalent among humans in our society today, most of the illnesses are caused by entirely preventable environmental factors, thereby making it our responsibility and our fault that so many animals have to die needlessly in research.
For instance: most lung cancers are caused by smoking. Other cancers can be triggered by excessive exposure to X-rays or other radiation, including skin cancers from overexposure to UV rays from the sun. The fact that people subsist on heavily caffeine, salt, sugar, and carbohydrate laden diets from fast foods and prepackaged grocery store items has led to astronomically high levels of high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and high cholesterol - all of which are treated by drugs from animal research. Chemical environmental pollutants surround us every day, from the smog from our cars and factories, to chemical wastes from manufacturing processes - many of which also lead to cancer and other disabilities.
I could go on, but I've made my point. Until and unless we drastically change our living habits and environmental conditions, it is a sad fact that animal research will have to continue in a futile attempt to save ourselves from ourselves.
