• Question: do you ever feel bad that medical experiments are carried out on animals?

    Asked by elliemccormack to Jasmine on 18 Jun 2013.
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      Jasmine Penny answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      That is an interesting question. There are really strict regulations for using animals for experiments and you have to have a licence to do so. A lot of researchers are trying to avoid using live animals in there research and I personally have never carried out experiments on live animals. I think that other methods should be used when possible but sometimes it is just just not possible to test medical treatments on human volunteers without having looked at the animal response first.

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  • Photo: elliemccormack

    elliemccormack commented on :

    Thankyou for your answer:)

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    Helen commented on :

    ‘scuse me for butting in on another question, but I feel quite strongly about this one!
    I work on animals, and I don’t know anyone I work with who likes doing it. I think most of us feel bad, using animals in our experiments, but as Jasmine says, there are some times when using animals is unavoidable, or it really is the best way of getting data, usually so that humans can be helped in the long run. I think most of us feel that although it’s not very kind to use animals, the positive outcomes that we’ll get long term outweigh the ethical problems of using them short term.