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There are three common ethical concerns expressed regarding the quality of animal lives during animal testing. Animals should lead natural lives through the use of their natural adaptations and capabilities, should function well in terms of health and behavior , and should feel well and be free of pain and fear. Most scientists have “restricted conceptions of animal welfare that relate to only one concern”(Drummond) . We protect animals due to genetic conservation, environmental integrity , or human virtue, not the quality of their lives. And there is only one law that governs the use of animals in animal testing, the animal welfare act, but yet it allows animals to be shocked, poisoned , burned and brain damaged. According to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta), ninety- five percent of animals used in laboratories are not protected by law(Bishop). For instance,the animal welfare act gives absolutely no restrictions to the use of mice and rats in labortories .Scientists know that animals experience pain and distress during animal experiments because animals are used to study pain depression and anxiety.Measurements of stress hormones , the presence of ulcers, abnormal behavior and brain dysfunction prove that lab animals do experience distress during testing. Furthermore, thousands of animals must die for the creation of only one product. For example, out of 60,000 drugs passed due to animal testing in Germany, many
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This is not true because most animal experiments do not contribute to medical advances because many of the experiments are done simply out of curiosity and give little hope to finding cures to diseases. This is because even though animals and humans can have similar organ structures, animals and humans have numerous differences that make it almost impossible for animal testing to give accurate data. For example, dogs are used for research into heart disease, despite differences between dog and human hearts, blood vessels and circulation. For instance, in humans, high blood pressure is associated with high insulin levels. However, in a dog, high insulin levels actually lowers blood pressure. Therefore, animals do not make acceptable models of the human body, and contribute very little in medical
This is not true because most animal experiments do not contribute to medical advances because many of the experiments are done simply out of curiosity and give little hope to finding cures to diseases. This is because even though animals and humans can have similar organ structures, animals and humans have numerous differences that make it almost impossible for animal testing to give accurate data. For example, dogs are used for research into heart disease, despite differences between dog and human hearts, blood vessels and circulation. For instance, in humans, high blood pressure is associated with high insulin levels. However, in a dog, high insulin levels actually lowers blood pressure. Therefore, animals do not make acceptable models of the human body, and contribute very little in medical