What is your opinion about animal testing and how it is portrayed in the media?

Q1=3, Q2=2, Q3=2, Q4=2; USA 55 male Animals can seem pretty smart, and I don't see why the extent of their abilities should be tested. I've also seen tricks, which made an animal seem smart, but actually was using a natural talent.

1. 1 2. 1 (but the law requires it to be done anyway so what I think does not matter). 3. 4. I am not aware of media bias - just a lot of public ignorance. 4. 5 Age: 50-60 Gender: Female UK

It depends, some is done humanely for very good reasons and provides information that improves the world, some is done for very poor reasons and done in very cruel ways. Animal testing is portraryed in the media (the "popular" media) the same way almost everything is portraryed, with bias and, generally, with very low journalistic standards. I believe this is because so much of our popular media today is owned by large corporations which are focused on making their stock price go up rather than providing good journalism or "fair and balanced" scientific or technical information. There are still a few exceptions to this, a few news organizations that still adhere to very high journalistic ethics and standards, Public Radio and Public TV to name two. So... Q1 - 1 Q2 - 1 Q3 - 1 Q4 - 3 I am male, American, and 40-60