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Essay / Our moral obligation to protect animals - 748
There is a misconception that animals used in experimental research are protected by the presence of ethics committees, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and the code of good practice. There is also an individual understanding that only rats and mice are used. Of course, we know that none of these claims are true. What the general public is completely unaware of is that all kinds of animals, not limited to rats and mice, are still subjected to horrible and sick procedures. The organization Humane Research Australia is trying to solve this problem by reporting on what really happens behind laboratory doors. "These scenarios are not only highly unethical: they are unscientific. We must challenge researchers and funding bodies and encourage them to adopt new technologies - non-animal methodologies that are both more humane and scientifically valid because they are specifically linked to human conditions. This is the essential role of the HRA and it is crucial that the community, particularly HRA supporters, are aware of what is happening and what they can do to help end child cruelty. animals.Michael. J. Thompson states: "that abuse and intentional harm inflicted on animals by human beings is morally wrong, not because of any intrinsic sense of rights that an animal possesses or because even the act of causing harm pain or killing is somehow inherently ethical. false, but because of the effects that these practices have on the nature of our ethical sensibilities, on our own status as ethical agents. » The following case study “Beagles Undergo Pharmaceutical Drug Tests” reveals that the experiments taking place behind laboratory doors are not some exaggerated claims but are in fact happening right here..... . middle of paper ...... animal testing is undertaken, someone will always be the first human to be tested. Because animal tests are so unreliable, they make human trials even riskier. The Food and Drug Association (FDA) has noted that 92 percent of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal testing fail in human trials because they do not work or are dangerous to the man. And of the small percentage of drugs approved for human use, half are relabeled because of side effects that were not identified in animal testing. Experiments on animals would have us believe that if they abandoned their archaic habit, sick children and other sick children and accident victims would drop dead in droves. We have come to the conclusion that the most significant trend in modern research in recent years has been the recognition that animals rarely serve as good models for the human body...