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Platinum · 06-19-2014

I agree completely.
I remember once my class had to do a debate/speech on 'Whether it is ethical that nimals should be used in scientific experiments'.
Most of my class used "How would you feel if you were a young, poor (insert weak animal here), torn from the wild, who had no future as you were being injected with harmful chemicals and .........."
Luckily I did some research! It turns out that 36 000 experiments involving animals only involved scientists observing the animals (no harm for the animals), and 5 000 involve animals being in contact with the scientists with mild pain. This was out of 42 000 experiments in 2012, Australia wide.

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Platinum Back from the dead? Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 2,533	I agree completely. I remember once my class had to do a debate/speech on 'Whether it is ethical that nimals should be used in scientific experiments'. Most of my class used "How would you feel if you were a young, poor (insert weak animal here), torn from the wild, who had no future as you were being injected with harmful chemicals and .........." Luckily I did some research! It turns out that 36 000 experiments involving animals only involved scientists observing the animals (no harm for the animals), and 5 000 involve animals being in contact with the scientists with mild pain. This was out of 42 000 experiments in 2012, Australia wide.