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1、Nearly all kinds of apes are used in experiments and researches,Where do the animals come from?,Key Points More than 2.5 million live animal experiments were authorized in Great Britain in 2000. This number has halved since the 1970s Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from s
2、hampoo to new cancer drugs British law requires that any new drug must be tested on at least two different species of live mammal. One must be a large non-rodent Almost every medical treatment you use has been tested on animals. Animals were also used to develop anesthetics to prevent human pain and
3、 suffering during surgery,The demand for animals to cut up and kill is massive and so there are, inevitably, a number of people who earn their living by providing laboratories with the livestock they need. Supplying live animals is big business these days.,People sell us for money, but we are badly
4、treated in the research facilities!,Many of the animals are specially bred on animal farms where sophisticated techniques may be used to ensure that researchers get what they want. Some animals come from zoos (when they have a surplus of some species available), some are retired from other activitie
5、s (extracting greyhounds are popular with researchers) and some are captured in the wild. It is this last method that arouses most indignation among environmental pressure groups, for some animals are captured in such vast quantities that whole species are threatened with extinction.,Animal Experime
6、ntation: Sadistic Scandal,Animal experiments are done for personal and commercial gain by people who are driven by greed and vanity. But the vivisectors may be cruel, unthinking and unimaginative they are not entirely without cunning. They realize that their best chance of continuing with their work
7、 is to persuade the public that the work they do does have a value. And so they lie. And because they are backed by huge international corporations which are as frightened as they are wealthy, the lies are presented in a convincing and polished way. They terrorize and blackmail ordinary citizens by
8、warning them that if animal experiments are stopped their children will die. It is crude and dishonest but it is often effectiw.,Bad Science,In many cases, animal studies do not just hurt animals and waste money; They harm and kill people, too. Some drugs tested on animals and judged safe had devast
9、ating consequences for the humans who used them.,A general accounting office report, in may 1990, found that more than half of the prescription drugs approved by the FDA between 1976 and 1985 caused side effects that were serious enough to cause them to be relabeled. All of these drugs had been test
10、ed on animals.,Experiments based on us brings not only benefits to human!,Misleading,Animal experimentation also misleads researchers in their studies. Some drugs could do harm on human bodies, and the work on prevention was delayed by wrong conceptions of the nature of the human disease based on mi
11、sleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys.“,We are different from human so experiments based on us will be misleading!,the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the government agency that investigated callous disregard and outright abuse of animals,“Hoping to stop it, our investigator re
12、ported the violation to members of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, which is supposed to oversee experiments, and asked them to come to the lab immediately to see the dead mice for themselves. But even though the committee members knew that they were supposed to keep a close eye on t
13、his experimenter because of repeat violations, they acted scared of her and didnt ask to look in the bag.”,people have been opposed to vivisection for many years; not just because it is unbelievably barbaric and unforgivably cruel but also because it is worthless, wasteful, inaccurate, uninformative
14、 and dangerously misleading.,Animal experiments: a failed technology,Robert Sharpe “The idea, as I understand it, is that fundamental truths are revealed in laboratory experiments on lower animals and are then applied to the problems of a sick patient. Having myself been trained as a physiologist I
15、feel in a way competent to assess such a claim. It is plain nonsense.“,Ethical Argument,Are animals merely things which exist to be used by humankind? Do animals have rights? How should we treat animals? What kind of regulation should we follow?,Researchers with a simple way of looking at the world
16、will frequently argue that animals do not have any rights. When pushed they will explain that the sole purpose of animals is to make our lives easier. When pushed they will explain that the sole purpose of animals is to make our lives easier.,The furthest they will go towards accepting that animals deserve to be treated with respect is to say that human beings share a responsibility to ensure that animals are not subjected to unnecessary suffering. The word unnecessary is, of cour
