This post on the eve of the animal testing requirement is honestly even less compelling than the argument "what about the bad guys" when politicians talk about

This post on the eve of the animal testing requirement is honestly even less compelling than the argument "what about the bad guys" when politicians talk about outlawing encryption. The US FDA, as it exists today, is the single biggest hurdle to global medical progress (because other developed countries with socialized medicine are still getting about half their new drugs from the US). It costs a billion+ dollars (in FDA testing alone) and many years to push a single drug into the market. Even during an unprecedented pandemic where things are being rushed and all the world's pharmaceutical resources are poured into the drug development, it still took a solid year after vaccines were developed. 90 years ago, animal testing was often the best option. But in this specific example, the drug manufacturer didn't do any kind of testing at all, so it isn't much of a fair comparison. And as a sibling commenter mentioned, there are other effective tests that can be done before human trials, saving time and animals.