this makes my heart sing

lets face it, the drug and cosmetic (and military) don't give a flying yoo hoo about animal rights, hurting and torturing animals. their bottom line is COST (i.e. MONEY MONEY MONEY - THE ALLMIGHTY DOLLAR!) and this looks like it will be CHEAPER than torturing animals so we can wear blue eye makeup and lose weight

Robots could reduce animal tests
By Helen Briggs Science reporter, BBC News, Boston
US scientists are taking the first step towards testing potentially hazardous chemicals on cells grown in a laboratory, without using live animals.
Two government agencies are looking into the merits of using high-speed automated robots to carry out tests.
The long-term goal is to reduce the cost, time and number of animals used in screening everything from pesticides to household chemicals.
The move follows calls for scientists to rely less on animal studies.
Robots would be able to carry out to carry out hundreds of thousands of chemical tests a day to identify chemicals with toxic effects.
Details were published in the journal Science and discussed at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston.
Faster and cheaper
Speaking in a live link-up, Dr Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health (NIH), said high throughput screening might provide a faster, cheaper method of testing environmental chemicals. ......

links you may find interesting:
the draize test
animal testing in the military
animal testing - caution graphic pictures
animal testing alternatives
johns hopkins university - alternatives to animal testing