PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Should animal testing be banned?
Animal testing or animal research is defined as nonhuman experiment used for education, breeding and cosmetology.
Numerous animals that have been experimented on are being killed after use.
Experiments done in laboratories to animals usually involve injecting, dosing, or collecting body substances.
1. Each animal possesses rights to not be subjected to harm.
In the Philippines, there is an Animal Welfare Act passed in 1998 which covers facilities used for breeding, maintaining, keeping, treating, or training all animals as objects of trade and household and does not include animal research.
2. Research can be done without experimenting on living creatures.
In their study, Kinsner-Ovaskainen et al. (2009) enumerated the benefits of not using animal testing but rather applying alternative non-animal research methods which includes: “a) increase the efficiency and effectiveness of hazard and risk assessments; b) minimise costs; and c) reduce, replace and refine animal testing where possible, while at the same time ensuring a sufficient protection of human health and the environmental” (p. 2).
3. Animals and humans are never the same.
1. People will die if these test will be conducted to humans.
As former UK Home Office minister Joan Ryan pointed out, “Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide...”
2. Animals do not have HUMAN rights.
“[h]umans do have many obligations owed to animals…that if animal rights were to be denied, the obligations owed would need to be denied as well” (Francione & Garner, 2010, p. 27).
3. Animal testing is only done when needed.
Animal testing is NOT necessary.
References
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Francione, G. L., & Garner, R. (2010). Why Animals do not have rights. The animal rights debate abolition or regulation? (pp. 27-40). New York: Columbia University Press.
Fraser, D., Weary, D., Pajor, E., & Milligan, B. (1997). A Scientific Conception of Animal Welfare That Reflects Ethical Concerns. Animal Welfare, 6, 187-205.
Hursthouse, R. (2000). Ethics, humans, and other animals: an introduction with readings. London: Routledge.
Kinsner-Ovaskainen, A., Akkan, Z., Casati, S., Coecke, S., Corvi, R., Dal Negro, G.,… Zuang, V. (2009). Overcoming barriers to validation of non-animal partial replacement methods/Integrated Testing Strategies: the report of an EPAA-ECVAM workshop. Altern Lab Anim, 37(4), 437-444.
Ramos, J. (2014, October 20). India Takes Another Step for Animals, Bans Import of Animal- Tested Products. Care2. Retrieved October 21, 2014, from http://www.care2.com/causes/india-takes-another-step-for-animals-bans-impor... animal-tested-products.html