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to keep a close eye on this experimenter because of repeat violations, they acted scared of her and didn’t ask to look in the bag.” people have been opposed to vivisection for many years。 not just because it is unbelievably barbaric and unfivably cruel but also because it is worthless, wasteful, inaccurate, uninformative and dangerously misleading. Animal experiments: a failed technology Robert Sharpe The idea, as I understand it, is that fundamental truths are revealed in laboratory experiments on lower animals and are then applied to the problems of a sick patient. Having myself been trained as a physiologist I feel in a way petent to assess such a claim. It is plain nonsense. Ethical Argument Are animals merely 39。 is, of course, impossible to define satisfactorily and very few active researchers will ever admit that any experiments have ever involved 39。t make it morally right to experiment on a plete stranger! ? If the experiment cannot be avoid, at least we should minimize the pain and suffering of those animals, by enriching the living condition, by providing the social interaction with others and by giving better daily cares. What we need is just better treatment and less suffering! ? Rend Descartes was one of the greatest thinkers of the seventeenth century and in history, but he had a few weaknesses. The biggest was probably his belief that animals had no conscious life, no desires, no feelings and no emotions because they had no immortal soul. ? If Descartes had spent just a little more time looking around him and a little less time trying to understand the secrets of the universe, he would have known that he was wrong. ? The truth is: although it is impossible for us to imagine precisely how animals do think, or what they think about, there cannot possibly be any doubt that they are capable of as much thought as many humans. Simple observations would have told Descartes that animals feel pain, suffer when they are sick, get bored, endure unhappiness and depression, grieve, mourn and can be driven mad by abuse. We have our own emotion and feeling! W