Essays on Animal Research

Introduction

The debate on the legality of using animals in research has continued to rage for many years now. A section of animal rights campaigners have argued that the use of animals in scholarly research contravenes the natural laws that guarantee the protection of the rights of animals. On the other hand, it is clear that the use of animals in research has yielded several positives that have seen the improvement of the lives of both people and animals in the world today. In this context, the current paper holds that the use of animals in research should be viewed ...

Animal testing is a dilemma, which seems impossible to be resolve. A lot of scientists are sure that it is the only way to achieve success in creating new types of medicine, in finding the way to cure diseases like cancer or even AIDS. In the end, doctors and biologists cannot experiment with human live and offer solution, which are not properly investigated. On the other hand, there is an entire army of people, who are certain that animal testing is at least unethical. Interestingly, both sides manage to find reasonable explanations and counterarguments that may puzzle any expert. ...

In global societies, discussions concerning the use of animals in medical tests for research are uncomfortable and controversial. Modern technology often broadcasts horrific photos of procedures being conducted on helpless creatures accompanied by claims of untrustworthy results and skewed statistics. In the long run, animals will continue to be used for testing in laboratories until the value of the practice is diminished. “The benefits of animal research have been enormous and it would have severe consequences for public health and medical research if it were abandoned “ (Festing and Wilkinson, n.p.). This paper will present information regarding whether animal testing ...

In the Society of Toxicology’s (SOT) public policy statement, toxicology is defined as the study of the interaction of chemical substances with living tissue in the context of the following issues: how they affect a biological organism’s processes, how to reduce the chemical substance’s potential harm to the organism, and what are safe levels of exposure (Society of Toxicology, 1999). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the SOT’s position statement on animal testing. The topics addressed in the paper are how toxicity levels are determined, the application of SOT principles to course material, ...

Animal Rights

The issue of laboratory animal research rights has been in the news for quite some time now. Like any other issue the lab animal rights and laws have their own supporters and the people who are against it. The supporters of animal rights give their side of the argument by saying that the lab animal rights protect the animals from being ill-treated and from being misused. They are literally tortured and as a fellow living creature they should not awarded that sort of treatment. The people who believe that animals are the ideal test subjects to test out new ...

Today, it is estimated that more than twenty-six million animals are being used yearly in the United States for both scientific and commercial research, as they are used in the development of medical treatments, determining of toxic medicines and analyse how safe are products designed for people use among many others. According to Langley et al., “the issue with animal research has been in practice since 500 BC as those who agree with the issue testifying on how it has been of help in developing plenty life-saving medicines for both human beings and animals (270)”. According to the proposers ...

Publicity Campaign Proposal

Animal Rights: Publicity Campaign Proposal Considering the vast amount of stereotypes developed around animal rights activism, it seems that animal rights advocacy has been successful with their campaigning in that it has gained widespread attention. That being said, not all tactics used in animal rights campaigning is effective. Since negative stereotypes continue to plague animal rights advocacy, there should be a better way to educate the public without alienating certain members of the public. For example, calling meat eaters murderers is not an effective means of gaining sympathy towards animals, but showing footage of animal abuse at meat-packing factories ...

In this world scientists are conducting life sciences research to accelerate better healthcare outcomes. For that, both clinical and basic science researches are done for the development of new treatments. The development of new treatments is necessary for various disorders. To understand the normal psychological or pathophysiological disease processes researchers are using animals for experiments but ethical violations are being noticed. Therefore, in this paper all those ethical violation issues will be discussed that are surrounding the clinical and basic science research. In addition, it will present the importance and need for animal studies over clinical trials that involve ...

Abstract:

For every medicine, for every poison, for every food or anything that would entail human use or consumption; there would always be a test subject that would make sure it is safe for use, consume or dispose. While there are human trial tests in laboratories nowadays to test new strains of medicine, food or scientific improvement; scientists would often test their theories in animals if they would produce positive results that would be advantageous for humans. Nowadays, the issue on continuing animal testing in laboratories for whatever use has been questioned by animal rights groups and concerned citizens to the ...