Final application paper. Animal Experimentation in University Laboratories

Animal Experimentation in University Laboratorie
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Animal Experimentation in University Laboratories   Thousands of animal experiments are undertaken every year inside university laboratories. A report by PETA, an organization that advocates against animal cruelty, shows that a myriad of universities across the country uses pigs, dogs, cats, rabbits, and monkeys for experiments in school. The report argues that animals used in these experiments end up blinded, crippled, or poisoned. Scholars perform these experiments are as part of scientific and medical research that can be replicated in producing medicine or understanding the etiology and pathophysiology of diseases. Typically, analyses include dissections, starvation, electric shock, and psychological tests. Students in medical and veterinary departments practice surgical techniques using animals. There is overwhelming consensus around the world that animal experimentation assists in understanding the pathophysiology of diseases, which helps in creating effective cure and vaccines.  Saraf & Kumaraswamy (2013) argue that using animals in laboratory studies is essential to enable the development of treatment strategies and tests before drugs are administered to humans. The duo demonstrates that the development of stem cell science and testing for chemotherapeutic medicines heavily depends on animal experimentation. Nonetheless, the researchers note that universities should show that their animal research experiments are performed under standards set by regulatory bodies such as the Council for Laboratory Animal Science and International Committee on Laboratory Animals. Corroborating these arguments, Dolby (2018) asserts that animal experimentation is necessary, but it should be done in a way that demonstrates care for animals subjected to laboratory tests. The researcher recognizes that using animals can sometimes raise ethical concerns. For instance, there has been an ongoing rage directed to the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Nebraska amidst revelations of the cruelty subjected to animals in this research facility (Moss, 2015). The surgical and breeding techniques subjected to the animals according to Moss (2015), are inhuman. Pro-animal experimentation individuals see the use of animals in experiments as an avenue for exploring organism function, investigating the effectiveness of possible therapies for disease, and determining the quality and safety regulation of devices, drugs, and other outputs. Doke & Dhawale (2015) express contrary views by noting that very few scientific experiments done on animals can be replicated in hum...