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    Animal experiments are scientific tests that cause animals pain, suffering or harm and are conducted worldwide, often to test chemicals, medicines or cosmetics. While some argue they further scientific understanding, others believe they deliberately harm animals unnecessarily. There is a wide spectrum of views on animal ethics from exploiting animals as resources to believing they have rights. In the 1970s, philosophers Peter Singer and Tom Regan argued animals deserve equal moral consideration and rights as humans due to their ability to experience suffering, challenging the view of animals as property. They believe we should minimize suffering for all beings capable of it, regardless of species. The debate around balancing scientific progress with preventing animal cruelty continues today.

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    Animal experiments are scientific tests that cause animals pain, suffering or harm and are conducted worldwide, often to test chemicals, medicines or cosmetics. While some argue they further scientific understanding, others believe they deliberately harm animals unnecessarily. There is a wide spectrum of views on animal ethics from exploiting animals as resources to believing they have rights. In the 1970s, philosophers Peter Singer and Tom Regan argued animals deserve equal moral consideration and rights as humans due to their ability to experience suffering, challenging the view of animals as property. They believe we should minimize suffering for all beings capable of it, regardless of species. The debate around balancing scientific progress with preventing animal cruelty continues today.

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    Animal experiments are scientific tests that cause animals pain, suffering or harm and are conducted worldwide, often to test chemicals, medicines or cosmetics. While some argue they further scientific understanding, others believe they deliberately harm animals unnecessarily. There is a wide spectrum of views on animal ethics from exploiting animals as resources to believing they have rights. In the 1970s, philosophers Peter Singer and Tom Regan argued animals deserve equal moral consideration and rights as humans due to their ability to experience suffering, challenging the view of animals as property. They believe we should minimize suffering for all beings capable of it, regardless of species. The debate around balancing scientific progress with preventing animal cruelty continues today.

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    Animal Rights and Ethics

    * Animal Experiments (slide 2)


    An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo
    something likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress, or lasting harm. Experiments on the
    animal are conducted all over the world. The use and test of animals in scientific testing has
    always been and will be a controversial subject. Animals were killed using poison in their food
    or injecting poison in their body to test how much poison can kill how much percentage of the
    total number of poisoned animals.

    Purposes of Animal Testing (slide 3)


    Animal experiments are not the same as taking your companion animal to the vet. Animals used
    in laboratories are deliberately harmed, not for their own good, and are usually killed at the
    end of the experiment. Research on the animal is allowed for determining the pattern of use of
    chemicals in human food and cosmetics, the development of medicines and vaccines, surgical
    techniques, and advanced scientific understanding in many areas.
    Scientific Research
    Drug Testing
    Toxicology testing
    Cosmetics
    Psychological

    Picture with Examples ( slide 4)

    * Animal Ethics (slide 5)


    Animal ethics is a term used in academia to describe human-animal relationships and how
    animals ought to be treated. The subject matter includes
     animal rights,
     animal welfare,
     animal law,
     animal cognition,
     wildlife conservation
     And the history of animal use

    * Focusing on animal Rights and Ethics (slide 6)


    Today there exists a wide spectrum of views on this subject, ranging from those concerned with
    animal 'rights' to those who view animals only as a resource to be exploited. In the second half
    of the twentieth century, scientists, social activists, and environmentalists became aware that
    research on animals and human foods and drugs were harmful to the environment. Then in the
    USA Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) started
    their investigation on these issues. All of these viewpoints have contributed to the development
    of ethical principles of animal use.

    Picture of Rights & Ethics ( slide 7)

    * Peter Singer's View ( slide 8)


    In the decade of 1970s, Peter Singer started the animal liberation movement. Singer used the
    term speciesism in this context and compared speciesism with racism and sexism.
    Singer established his view of equal moral standing, i.e., moral status and rights will be equal.  
    One question can be raised: how can man, animals, blacks, and woman be considered as equal
    in moral rights? One point is that animals can suffer like a man. From the standpoint of
    suffering, man, animals, blacks, woman, all are of the same one type.
    Singer thus established his view of moral standing, that: we should work in such a way that we
    can diminish suffering as much as possible. Because animals also can suffer like human beings.
    This is animal rights.

    *Tom Regan's View ( slide 9)


    Tom Regan also supports animal rights. Regan’s view is that some animals have rights. He holds
    that varieties of human activities affect animals. Such activities are scientific and commercial
    researches, use of animal foods and recreational use of animals in sports, zoos and use as pets.  
    To support his view of animal rights, Regan raises a question – can human beings be used the
    way animals are used by man?
    To make this standpoint clear, Regan makes a distinction between moral agents and moral
    patients. Moral agents are adult, competent, rational; they do duties, choose rights, and so on.
    Moral patients are incompetent, immature, infant, of low intelligence and have no
    duties. Moral patients cannot act morally, but they can be acted on morally by moral agents.
    Both moral agents and moral patients possess moral rights.
    In the same way, Regan claims that all the subject-of-a-life deserve equal moral rights. Regan
    supports animal rights in this way.

    Animal Abuse in BD ( slide 10)

    Animal rights in BD ( slide 11)

    *Humane Endpoints (slide 12)

    The majority of animals are killed at the end of the research/ experiment, either because of
    their tissues are required as part of the experiment, or because the scientific objectives have
    been achieved and the animal can no longer be used. If the experiment leads to an increasing
    amount of suffering during its course, then it is best for the animals to be killed as early as
    possible. This approach is described as operating ‘humane endpoints.’

    *Ending UP ( slide 13)


    According to animal researchers, it will be impossible to eliminate all animal tests, but the
    scientists are always working on ways to minimize the suffering of animals and to ensure as few
    animals as possible will be required for the experiment.

    Pictures (slide 14)

    References (slide 15)

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