Why animal testing fails

[Catherine]

Quote:And the cages would come in handly if they were donated to an animal Rescue or Veterinary practice.

Many of the cages would not be suitable. They provide a stark bare minimum for an animal. Shelters are moving away from small cages whenever possible. My local shelter has  multiple small "rooms" that a number of cats can share. That gets a lot of cats out of cages. The cages are opened up so each cat gets two spaces and so has some room to live for the sort time they are there.
The bunnies have enclosures on the floor that give each rabbit lots of room to live and hop around.
They knocked out walls and each dog gets two kennels so it has room to move around.
Lab cages would not be welcome.


It is all about money and most companies will only change when the law says they must. Even then they will be given years to make the changes. If the companies cared about the research first they would want to change to newer and better methods.
Researchers sometimes fight change. If you were trained to only work with animals for testing, tissue culture would be threatening. The techniques are very different.  A few days of classes would not be enough. It is a whole different specialization.
Lab techs would not be able to make the transition and some would be out of work.

No change is easy. But you can't hold progress up because it requires change. Worse you shouldn't hold onto bad ways of doing things because you don't want to change.