1. Animal Rights and Sentience
They justify the treatment conditions of animals in the name of science, claiming that if sentient animals can be used to predict human response to drugs and disease, then using them is acceptable. However, such use is not scientifically sound, as animals cannot predict human response (Shanks) and "as the FDA reports, 86 percent of experimental drugs don't make it to clinical trials due to the different biology in nonhuman species," and out of the remaining drugs, "unintended side-effects were labeled on the warning because of adverse reactions in humans that the animals di...
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- Grade Level: Graduate