Should Scientific Experiments On Animals Be Allowed?

... PATRICK CHRISTIE FOUNDATION ARTS OCTOBER ASSIGNMENT 2001 SHOULD SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS BE ALLOWED? Anti-vivisectionists would have us believe that medical research laboratories resemble the freak factory depicted in H.G. Wells' Island of Doctor Moreau, yet scientists would have us believe that they are humanities' last, best hope for medical salvation. Who do we believe and more importantly who should we believe? It is an area of debate fraught with claim and counter claim. Some of the many claims of abolitionist groups are that animal biology and disease bear no relation to their human counterparts, animal research and testing has not resulted in any medical advances, the experiments are cruel to the animals and that there are no regulations to safeguard the animal's welfare. Most people are of the view that animals hold no place in the search for medical cures for humans, as animals are quite plainly different. Therefore, the argument goes, animals

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