Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of humans, sharing 96 percent of our DNA.(Animal Experimentation) This fact makes it easy to understand why animal experimentation is filled with so much controversy. Animal medical experimentation causes undue stress and trauma to animals and does not advance modern medicine and it should be illegal. Animals in labs suffer pain and severe stress in day-to-day laboratory life. It’s unethical to sentence 100 million thinking, feeling animals to live in a cage. Imagine being a patient in a hospital for the rest of your life. What happens to you could be uncomfortable to agonizing to deadly and there is no way you can defend yourself. “In a news story university staff admitted that food deprivation
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(iaapea.com) Dr.Elias Zerhouni agrees. During a government meeting for research Dr. Zerhouni admitted that experimenting on animals to help humans has been a major failure. (peta.org) It’s time to move away from the old testing way. Scientists have developed a more modern non-animal research method without using animals, including based microdosing and testing using human cells and tissues also known as in vitro methods. These tests usually take less time and money to complete. (peta.org)
The Animal Welfare Act was put into law in 1966. It is the only federal law that regulates animal research and is the minimum accepted example. Unfortunately the search of the USDA care data base showed that in the last 12 months 16 facilities violated requirements of the AWA. In 2011 a USDA inspection report cites the Harvard Medical School five times for violations including unqualified personnel, inadequate supervision and housing. The same year a report reveals improper animal handling at MPI Research caused severe injuries to 4 animals and the injures were so bad that the animals had to be
(iaapea.com) Dr.Elias Zerhouni agrees. During a government meeting for research Dr. Zerhouni admitted that experimenting on animals to help humans has been a major failure. (peta.org) It’s time to move away from the old testing way. Scientists have developed a more modern non-animal research method without using animals, including based microdosing and testing using human cells and tissues also known as in vitro methods. These tests usually take less time and money to complete. (peta.org)
The Animal Welfare Act was put into law in 1966. It is the only federal law that regulates animal research and is the minimum accepted example. Unfortunately the search of the USDA care data base showed that in the last 12 months 16 facilities violated requirements of the AWA. In 2011 a USDA inspection report cites the Harvard Medical School five times for violations including unqualified personnel, inadequate supervision and housing. The same year a report reveals improper animal handling at MPI Research caused severe injuries to 4 animals and the injures were so bad that the animals had to be