Sneak Peak: India dilemma

Dogs or Monkeys - The Indian Pharma Industry’s dilemma « The Great Indian Mutiny

But according to a Financial Times Report, the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry is facing a peculiar problem - traditional reverence to animals like rats and monkeys in India is apparently hindering progress in the R & D sector. The US Food and Drug Administration and other regulators around the world require new drugs to be tested on animals like rats and dogs whereas toxicology tests(that might kill the animals) on such animals are banned in India. This is apart from the likely opposition from animal rights groups like Peta.