The Morality Of Animal Experimentation

Animal testing has been a highly debated topic in recent years. There are many people who have finally started to speak their minds and tell how they feel about testing on animals. But just as there are those who oppose animal testing, there are those who fully support it. A majority of people who do not support animal testing provide valid facts and information for why it is not needed. Some of the facts that they provide revolve around the conditions that the animals have to endure in the testing labs. The Animal Welfare Act lays out rules about how animals are allowed to be tortured, beaten, maimed, and all sorts of other things as long as they get pain relief. Those who oppose animal testing also provide facts that show how unreliable the

John Dewey reported that scientists gave to follow a set of rules known as The Moral Principles of Animal Experimentation. The Moral Principles of Animal Experimentation states that scientific men are under definite obligation to experiment upon animals so far as that the alternative to random and possibly harmful experimentation upon human beings and so far as such experimentation is a means of saving human life and of increasing human vigor and efficiency. It also states that the community at large is under definite obligations to see to it that physicians and scientific men are not needlessly hampered in carrying on the inquires necessary for an adequate performance of their important social office of sustaining human life and vigor (Dewey 344-345). There is also The Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The AWA is the only U.S law that governs the use of animals in the labs.Allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged. Lab physicians are required to provide pain relief for the defined animals used in lab tests and experiments. The AWA does not classify rats, mice, birds, and all cold-blooded animals as “defined” animals. Ninety-five percent of all animals used in tests, between 2010-2014, were the animals that the AWA excluded for not being “defined” animals. This means nearly half of a

Singer also predicts that in the future our children’s children will read about labs in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and feel the same sense of horror and incredulity…that we feel now when we read about eighteenth-century slavery (Procon).MacLennan & Amos, “There is no doubt that the best test species for humans are humans. It is not possible to extrapolate animal data directly to humans due to interspecies variation in anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry.” – MacLennan & Amos., 1990 (In