Do you think animals shouldn't be used in medical or biological research?
My opinion is that some of the usage of animals in science is unnecessary (undergraduate/high school dissection labs for instance), but it would be impossible to replace all animals in research. For example, it would be impossible to release any new drug without animal testing - even if you got around the legal requirements for safety testing, we don't know enough biology to say that a particular chemical is safe in humans, let alone that it works as a drug. Isn't an objection to the use of any animals inherently unethical?
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Do you think animals shouldn't be used in medical or biological research?
My opinion is that some of the usage of animals in science is unnecessary (undergraduate/high school dissection labs for instance), but it would be impossible to replace all animals in research. For example, it would be impossible to release any new drug without animal testing - even if you got around the legal requirements for safety testing, we don't know enough biology to say that a particular chemical is safe in humans, let alone that it works as a drug. Isn't an objection to the use of any animals inherently unethical?
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