Ethics of animals in labs

Ethics of animals in labs.

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, animal experimenters are very aware of this ethical problem and acknowledge that experiments should be made as humane as possible, they also agree that it's wrong to use animals if alternative testing methods would produce equally valid results.
in favour of testing on animals is that animals such a rats and rabbits 

In favour of animal experiments:

• Experimenting on animals is acceptable if:
• suffering is minimised in all experiments
• human benefits are gained which could not be obtained by using other method

Against animal experiments:

• Experimenting on animals is always unacceptable because:
  • it causes suffering to animals
  • the benefits to human beings are not proven
  • any benefits to human beings that animal testing does provide could be produced in other

Secondary data:

• websites // http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/experiments_1.shtml
• documentary: Blackfish // based on Tilikum // male orca // largest orcas in captivity (22 feet) // dyeing of chronic lung infection  // in SeaWorld // showed sighs of zoochosis // died the summer of 2015 // in the wild orcas live 80 years, males live up to 100 years // in captivity they live 7 years // 2007
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