I avoid a alopathic medical treatment as much as possible, though I have had a few prescription medications (mostly antibiotics and painkillers) in the past. I would note that I, personally, feel safe taking these medications because millions of other humans have taken them before myself and have survived. So I would not say that I have benefitted from the mice testing, but I have benefitted from the human testing. Perhaps the humans who took these drugs first considered it useful to have had the drug given to mice first, but I am not them.

Also, I believe that there is a good chance that testing on mice has, perhaps, eliminated some very drugs that could be very effective and beneficial to humans, but were ruled out because the mouse's biology is different than a humans' body. Heck, even some drugs work well in one human and not so well in other humans.

I understand that Jef thinks his statement is true, I'm just saying that it's not true for me, since it's a moral conclusion, rather than a scientific one.