Sentences with phrase «experiments on animals so»

It said that researchers should avoid experiments on animals so closely related to humans unless the work was impossible to carry out in other animals or was «of sufficient value to offset the moral costs».

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Discussion of animals in a theological context, when it does arise, has tended to be limited to moral questions: Can we experiment on animals, and if so, for what purpose?

Doing so would not lead us to treat animals like people but rather to treat the weakest people like animals, opening the door to such things as conducting medical experiments on the cognitively disabled, which has already been proposed in bioethics literature.

So why are UK scientists still conducting antiquated experiments on animals that have, for decades, proved ineffective, while modern non-animal testing methods have advanced by leaps and bounds?

They were able to do so by building on an experiment showing that grafting a peripheral nerve into the space between a severed spinal cord in an animal model brought about nerve regeneration (albeit limited).

In a series of experiments in mice, the researchers developed a computer program that connected the neural activity in the animals» brains to musical notes, so that when one group of neurons switched on, a corresponding musical note played.

More than 6,000 papers have been published on these so - called beta glucans, but almost all the data about preventing infections had come from petri dish or lab animal studies, until a few years ago when a series of experiments on athletes showed beneficial effects — but that was in marathon runners.

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They aren \» t willing to pay for them or go to the breeders or pet shops or shelters where they will have to prove they can provide a proper placement / home because they CAN \ «T / WON \» T so they depend on people to give them free animals to torture experiment on and kill.

Every living thing on the planet will naturally work to attain greater resources / mating opportunities, etc... In countless laboratory experiments, using a variety of species, from mice to primates, animals who were trained to work for rewards, continued to do so, even when given free access to another food supply.

Research facilities aren't required to report on the number of mice, fish, or reptiles used in experiments because those animals aren't covered under the Animal Welfare Act, so in reality, these numbers are actually quite higher.

Pacelle also went so far as sort of excuse Vick for his behavior because as a society we give a lot of «mixed signals» about our concern for animals — even going so far as to compare those who hunt and raise animals for food (you know, to help people survive), and to experiment on (you know, to cure diseases to kill people) to dog fighting (you know because torturing dogs for the fun of it is sort of similar to those others).