Intro
Thesis: The inhumane use of animals for medical experimentation in the United Kingdom should encourage the country to push towards anti-vivisection in medical research fields.
Current Testing Regulations in the UK
Although the UK has banned cosmetic testing and the selling of cosmetics that have used animals to test, animal experimentation is still used in the medical research. (Garner)
No government on earth has recognized this type of respect for animals, but have worked to alleviate some of the suffering they undergo in this testing.
The UK has implemented the 3 R’s of reduction, replacement, and refinement to work towards alternatives.
The use of this is encouraged, but the not much effort is put into it by scientists, for it is …show more content…
“The more we learn about basic cellular functions and their evolution, the more often it becomes possible to study key human functions in another organism, such as yeast.”
After the Oxford animal laboratory had allowed a BBC film crew to film an experiment on a macaque, the United Kingdom Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir Mark Walport, has been more open to the public about the development of medical research based on testing on animals. (Telegraph Online)
"People are becoming more confident and more transparent about animal research and I think that is extremely important,’ he said / ‘It is important to remember that every time you take pretty much any pharmaceutical agent you are benefiting from many years of studies on humans and on animals - and of course that research benefits animals as well.”
Oxford University signed a concordat stating that they and 40 other UK bioscience organizations would be more open about their usage of animals in the lab and the progression gained from it.
Reasoning against testing on
Thesis: The inhumane use of animals for medical experimentation in the United Kingdom should encourage the country to push towards anti-vivisection in medical research fields.
Current Testing Regulations in the UK
Although the UK has banned cosmetic testing and the selling of cosmetics that have used animals to test, animal experimentation is still used in the medical research. (Garner)
No government on earth has recognized this type of respect for animals, but have worked to alleviate some of the suffering they undergo in this testing.
The UK has implemented the 3 R’s of reduction, replacement, and refinement to work towards alternatives.
The use of this is encouraged, but the not much effort is put into it by scientists, for it is …show more content…
“The more we learn about basic cellular functions and their evolution, the more often it becomes possible to study key human functions in another organism, such as yeast.”
After the Oxford animal laboratory had allowed a BBC film crew to film an experiment on a macaque, the United Kingdom Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir Mark Walport, has been more open to the public about the development of medical research based on testing on animals. (Telegraph Online)
"People are becoming more confident and more transparent about animal research and I think that is extremely important,’ he said / ‘It is important to remember that every time you take pretty much any pharmaceutical agent you are benefiting from many years of studies on humans and on animals - and of course that research benefits animals as well.”
Oxford University signed a concordat stating that they and 40 other UK bioscience organizations would be more open about their usage of animals in the lab and the progression gained from it.
Reasoning against testing on