Animal rights activists generally view morality arguments as the paramount reason for opposing animal experimentation. However, unwilling to rely solely on fundamental moral claims, activists also employ a variety of "practical" arguments. When publicly arguing against animal experimentation, the most common strategy criticizes the scientific validity of the experiments ("bad science" arguments). Activists claim that animal experimentation is wasteful, redundant, inapplicable, and often harmful to human animals.
That an animal rights group would make these arguments seems natural: they simply want to see an end to animal experimentation—how that is achieved is irrelevant. However, the tension arising from attempting to use arguments from within science to question the underlying moral framework does not advance, and ultimately undermines progress toward animal rights. Moral arguments alone offer the best strategic choice for advancing the abolition of animal experiments. (Lewis)
The most commonly held perception regarding animal experimentation is that it is necessary for the development of vaccines, cures, and treatments for human illness. Proponents ask the important question, what will happen to AIDS, cancer, and heart disease research, to name a few examples if animal experimentation is completely stopped? Will the progress in cures and treatments for these types of illnesses also come to a halt?
There is a growing movement of health care professionals including doctors, scientists, and educated members of the public who are opposed to non-human animal based experimentation on specifically medical and scientific grounds. They argue that animal research is based on a false premise, that results obtained through animal experimentation can be applied to the human body. Animals not only react differently than humans to different drugs, vaccines, and experiments, but they also react differently from one another. Ignoring this difference has been and continues to be very costly to human health.
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