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ve to be treated with respect is to say that human beings share a responsibility to ensure that animals are not subjected to unnecessary suffering. The word 39。 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。Nearly all kinds of apes are used in experiments and researches Where do the animals e from? Key Points More than million live animal experiments were authorized in Great Britain in 2022. This number has halved since the 1970s Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from shampoo to new cancer drugs British law requires that any new drug must be tested on at least two different species of live mammal. One must be a large nonrodent Almost every medical treatment you use has been tested on animals. Animals were also used to develop anesthetics to prevent human pain and suffering during surgery The demand for animals to cut up and kill is massive and so there are, inevitably, a number of people who earn their living by providing laboratories with the livestock they need. Supplying live animals is big business these days. People sell us for money, but we are badly treated in the research facilities! Many of the animals are specially bred on animal farms where sophisticated techniques may be used to ensure that researchers get what they want. Some animals e from zoos (when they have a surplus of some species available), some are retired from other activities (extracting greyhounds are popular with researchers) and some are captured in the wild. It is this last method that arouses most indignation among environmental pressure groups,