Animal Research

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This paper discusses the longstanding debate regarding animal research and provides a brief overview of the history of animal research as well as the controversy surrounding it. The writer argues that animals should continue to be used in biomedical research because the scientific knowledge gained far outweighs any ethical and moral considerations. Animal research is responsible for almost all of the advances in medicine from vaccines to genetic research, and has proven as beneficial to animal health as it has to human health. Many advanced life-saving techniques have been discovered not only for our pets and farm livestock, but for other wildlife and endangered species. The paper concludes that the survival of the human race and the ecosystem of the earth depends on continuing this scientific research.

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"However, the debate over the many ethical issues regarding the use of another sentient species to aid humans in prolonging and increasing the quality of their lives continues with increasing animosity on both sides. After the revolution in ethical and moral thinking in the sixties, the seventies provided the first real gain in momentum by many animal rights activists. Since then the use of animals in research has dropped by almost fifty percent. This is partly due to these advocacy groups raising awareness among the populace, but it is also because many other alternatives became available. Most of these alternatives were also much more cost effective and were happily hailed by both sides. (Spun 22) Nevertheless, there is still a great deal of animal research being done today."

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• "Animal Lab May Have Leaked Foot and Mouth." Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) 5 Aug. 2007: 2.
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• Galvin, Shelley L., and Harold A. Herzog. "The Ethical Judgment of Animal Research." Ethics & Behavior 2.4 (1992): 263-286.

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