Animal Testing

One of my main aims in life, as a pharmacist, is to discover a method of synthesis to produce drugs that are not tested on animals at any point of time.
Animal testing of a product is to test the effectiveness, biological activity and possible toxic effects of a drug on an animal prior to releasing it on the market for general use.
Mohandas K. Gandhi said it best in his autobiography "The Story of My Experiments With Truth": "To my mind the life of the lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."

Countless organisations on the internet and worldwide otherwise also, are completely opposed to this. Let me quote a few examples to tell you why so many consider animal testing cruel, barbaric and completely unnecessary.
PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals. They are a very prominent society and exist solely for the purpose of defending animal rights.
In the Draize eye test a substance is dropped into the eyes of a group of albino rabbits. The animals are often immobilised in stocks from which only their heads protrude. They usually receive no anaesthesia during the tests. After placing the substance in the rabbits' eyes, technicians record the damage to the eye tissue at specific intervals over an average period of 72 hours, with tests sometimes lasting 7-18 days. Reactions to the substances include swollen eyelids, inflamed irises, ulceration, bleeding, massive deterioration, and blindness. During the tests, the rabbits' eyelids are held open with clips. Animals maybreak their necks or otherwise be injured as they struggle to escape. Technicians performing eye irritancy tests do not attempt to treat the rabbits or seek antidotes to the test substance, so the test cannot help lead to treatments for potential human injuries.
Acute toxicity tests, commonly called lethal dose or poisoning tests, determine the amount of a substance that will kill a percentage, even up to 100%, of a group of test animals. In these tests, a substance is forced by tube into the animals' stomachs or through holes cut into their throats. It may be injected under the skin, into a vein, or into the lining of the abdomen; mixed into feed; inhaled through a gas mask; or applied into the eyes, rectum, or vagina. Experimenters observe the animals' reactions, which can include convulsions, laboured breathing, diarrhoea, constipation, emaciation, skin eruptions, abnormal posture, and bleeding from the eyes, nose, or mouth. Many of the animals die, not from poisoning, but from burst of ruptured intestines caused by the force-feeding process.
These 2 tests are only examples of the innumerable callous ways humans inflict torture on animals.
We call ourselves a developing society. Yet we fail to recognise that there are ways in which we can fight against this oppression of a group of living beings we are responsible for, for the simple reason that we consider ourselves higher to them.
Do ways exist to combat animal testing?
I'll discuss them the next time till you, as my empathetic readers, have had time to consider my point of view.