HONORS ETHICS:: Animal Rights

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Animal experimentation, also called animal testing, has contributed to many important scientific and medical discoveries. While acknowledging the advances brought by animal experimentation, many people object to the use of animals in scientific studies because the animals are denied their freedom and often suffer serious injury and discomfort. This link connects readers to both sides of the issue.

From Santa Clara University Center for Applied Ethics

Harvard Law School Weighs In

From the BBC: Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life in other ways. If it is morally wrong to cause animals to suffer, then experimenting on animals produces serious moral problems.