No one relishes using animals for experimentation, but the medical community has long insisted that such research helps develop potentially life-saving drugs and treatments. Is this justification compelling enough to continue using animals for medical research?
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Can Medical Research on Animals be Justified?
not so simple
I don't believe this issue is cut and dry. Generally we should not test on animals, but I don't think this should be an absolute rule.
On a side note, many of the vegans around here will rightly point out that we do not need to eat animal products to be healthy and that a good vegetarian diet is healthier than one with animal products. The irony is that we know this in large part because of animal testing!
- jayd
September 26, 2008 8:40AM
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Not really irony
First, we know that a vegetarian diet is healthy primarily because of human case studies. Second, even if animal testing were a part of the discovery, this would not be reason to continue doing so.
If one finds that one's actions are unnecessary and perhaps ethically unjustifiable, it would be illogical to use that prior use as justification for future use, regardless of the gains.
- mike
January 30, 2009 3:29PM
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