Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

Doctor Moreau in this essay. Otis uses these two works as a way to compare the “painful transformations” that Eliza from Shaw’s play and the Beast People from Wells’ novel undergo in a laboratory setting. The differences between animals and humans are highlighted in this essay, showing that there are limits when attempting to morph the two species together. Laura Otis is an American historian of science and a Professor of English…

1 Scientific Justification on Animal Testing with Alternative Solutions The pursuit of scientific advancement has subjected a variety of animals to unfair, unnecessary cruel treatment. Will society continue to justify ineffective animal testing to some form of illegitimate, imprecise data or are there alternative solutions available? Researchers have long involved animals to create some form of legitimate scientific evidence because our bodies share outstanding physiological similarities.…

The Moral Controversy on Using Animal for Research Historically, the health and well being of humans have taken precedent over those of animals’. Only recently have animal “rights” become a major and sometimes controversial topic in the general public. The controversy is inflamed by the fact that it is common practice to use animals for medical research. Different people have many different views on this topic. Is it humane to experiment on animals? Does a life-saving vaccine warrant the pain…

supervision of experimentation by the lab's Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee, and inadequate housing for primates” (Hunnicutt). Despite the benefits of animal testing, animal rights activists have shed a light on the horrible things these animals needlessly suffer. Because of this information, laws were passed against treating animals inhumanely; however, we still hear about examples of cruelty in animal testing to this day. In the past, animal testing has helped create lifesaving…

by humans on a daily bases are tested on animals. These things are all created in labs and go through so many trial and error experiments that the scientists and manufacturers do not want to have to use humans to see if they are safe or not. Instead, they use animals to do their research. But who is to say that testing on animals is the best way to go. There are many other means of testing medications and other products rather than testing on animals. Animal testing is defined as referring to…

In 2008, a video was released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that showed severe animal cruelty at Mowmar Farms Hog Confinement, located just outside of Fairmont, Minnesota (Genoways). The video showed employees prodding hogs too crippled to stand with electric prods and beating hogs repeatedly on their backs with metal gate rods (Genoways). Adding to this, the video also revealed the method the workers used to euthanize underweight piglets: a technique called thumping…

Real Benefits: Animal Testing Through much research it can be shown that animal testing is not entirely all bad. Testing on animals has gotten an awful reputation for its involvement in the cosmetic world. It has gotten so bad that several countries have banned products tested on animal and several cosmetic companies have eradicated the use of animal testing all together because of consumer pressure. However, there is medical animal testing which is in the shadows of cosmetic testing. It is not…

tested on animal before being mass distributed to humans during the polio epidemic. The vaccine reduced the 350,000 cases in 1988, to only 223 cases of polio in 2012. Also, the use of chimpanzees for test, lead to the discovery of the Hepatitis B vaccine. 2. Animal research is regulated by the federal government under the Animal Welfare Act. This act mandates the minimum housing and enclosure requirements for the animals being testing on. In order to pass inspection, each lab testing animal…

time of angiography. Technical success of the procedure was defined as the stable placement of the microcatheter tip into the proper hepatic artery. All the procedures were conducted following the research protocol approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was calculated to determine the relationship between size of hepatic artery and weight of rats. Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests were used to evaluate the differences between groups.…

wonders that resulted from animal testing. Animal testing has been around since the 500 B.C. It has contributed to humanity dramatically and made a huge impact on our lifestyle. As technology advances many argue that animal testing should not be used for biomedical research because it is humane, the truth of the matter is animal testing have and continues to contribute to not just biomedical research but to the house products, food and our entertainment. The use of animals for medical…