Is Animal Experimentation Ethical?
Animal experimentation, often referred to as animal testing, involves procedures conducted on living animals with the aim of advancing basic biological research, studying diseases, evaluating new pharmaceutical drugs, and assessing the environmental safety of consumer and industrial products. However, many of these procedures cause significant discomfort and decrease the quality of life for the animals involved. This raises pressing ethical questions: if it is wrong to cause animals to suffer, then the morality of animal experimentation comes into serious question.
