Essays on Animal Welfare Act

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 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 ...