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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, m any of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life in other ways, i f it is morally wrong to cause animals to suffer then experimenting on animals produces serious moral problems, a nimal experimenters are very aware of this ethical problem and acknowledge that experiments should be made as humane as possible, t hey 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 anima...