Er, Foxy. Maybe you're not aware but cancer is NOT a man-made disease in any way. Man uses many carcinogenic chemicals to initiate it but it is caused by random genetic mutation and can occur in any animal. (oddly enough not plants, probably because they lack oncogenes) Sorry, but you're just wrong there.
Previous post was fine. Mankind is more like a virus in behaviour though. (See the matrix <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />)
Animals are never really cruelly abused in the labs I've seen either. Most tests don't cause them to much discomfort. They are mostly first-pass metabolic determinations. Most of the animal scientists I've talked to dislike the job to some degree but see it as very necessary. Which it is.
