Can animal experiment be considred as an immoral act!?

Question

Can animal experiment be considred as an immoral act!?

Answer 1

Depends on the reason for the experiment.

Senseless torture of animals = bad.

Damaging / effect irreversible / un-compassionate experimentation for the sake of casual / elective human products (such as cosmetics) = questionable

Compassionate research to improve the health and well being of human beings = good

Answer 2

Most of us from time to time take prescriptive drugs or over the counter medicine and those at some stage would have been tested on animals - as well as humans!.  We have to accept as hard as it is that testing on animals is needed for drugs and medicine progression.  Don't also forget that many terminally ill patients also volunteer for pioneering treatments that may or may not save their lives but in the name of future sufferers they are prepared to be human guinea pigs.  I certainly am strongly against any aminal being tested on for beauty products of any kind - we have enough on the market now for this to not be needed at all.  I am animal lover but I guess, we all benefit from their sacrifices however hard that is to accept.

Answer 3

sometimes. doesnt save the poor animals lives=(

Answer 4

I believe so.  I think it's wrong to test anything on any human or animal.  They're still alive and breathing.

Answer 5

I agree its an immoral act, but not that this means it should never be done.  We're a generation or less removed from the era of experiments on humans without their knowledge and consent.  All of the same arguments pro and con were made with that issue.  I think one important question that should always be asked is whether the information could be obtained some other way.  With the advances in genetic engineering this is usually so, lab animals are just cheaper.  The other question is how important is the information being sought.  Would it be worth the pain and suffering of a rabbit if it brought a cure for cancer?  I would vote yes.  Many would vote yes if it was the pain and suffering of a fellow human (just not themselves).  I'm not sure how I'd vote on that.  Now, would it be worth either one of these same things for a new shade of lipstick?  One that would raise the stock of a cosmetics company 0.000001 cents?  Not to me.

Answer 6

If they make animals eat McDonald's food it is immoral

Answer 7

Every time in my opinion

Answer 8

What is morally acceptable to one  may not be morally acceptable to another..

The question you have posed here  has no  right or wrong answer as it can be argued for all eternity amongst ourselves.

I personally feel  that it is immoral  to hurt another of God's creatures..All creatures feel pain, anxiety. We as human's  have the ability to say yes  or no as  to whether we consent to such testings in the name of medical science.. Animals are at our mercy.

As a person who was in the medical field, I  do know that many of our advancements could never have been achieved without experimentation but  my heart still tells me it may have been achieved by other methods

Answer 9

Absolutely its completely immoral! we need to abolish animal experiments for our health and safety, you cannot transfer data from a monkey/rat/rabbit/dog/cat to a human being, this is why there are so many dangerous side effects of the drugs.

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Answer 10

Its certainly wrong...in my world!

Answer 11

Yeah for the PETA whack jobs.  Would you rather we use humans to experiment on?

Answer 12

Should test on murderers and other such wonderous individuals so at least their lives were not a totally waste of being.  Also it would give more accurate results, as although it is hard to beleive some of them are human beings.  It of course will never happen as it would be seen as  an 'immoral act'.  How strange humans are!

Answer 13

it can be.

Some consider all animal experiments as immoral.

Some weigh up the potential benefits, and consider medical experimentation generally OK as long as there is a decent standards of welfare.

Answer 14

As long as it is done with certain controls in place it can be very beneficial

Answer 15

Depends on what you do and why, but generally, no. Man is the steward of this planet, and we are responsible for taking care of it. If learning the best ways of doing things involves animals, so be it. We DO have the authority.

Answer 16

no, if it saves lives.

Answer 17

um, it might just be deemed silly as animals do not react the same as humans anyway...

Answer 18

I think it matters what the situation is. I think animal testing for stupid things like shampoo is immoral, but if they are being tested to save lives, a few bunnies won't be missed.

Answer 19

of course.  a lot of them are immoral.

Answer 20

No. If your pet is sick, you take it to the vet. If he has to give it an injection to make it better, how do you think the injection was developed?

Answer 21

Yes, very much so.  Every animal experiment should be carefully scrutinised by an ethics committee to determine if cruelty is involved.  It is true that much data has been gathered from unethical animal testing in the past, and this should not be discarded, but continuing it into the future is a matter of great contention in the scientific community.

Answer 22

yeah man it's well wrong.