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The Case For Revising Our Laws On Animal Experimentation, David L. Markell
The Case For Revising Our Laws On Animal Experimentation, David L. Markell
International Journal for the Study of Animal Problems
The current laws regarding experimentation on animals should be dramatically revised. These laws permit virtually unrestricted animal experimentation without regard to the benefits obtained from such experiments
and the consequences of such experiments upon the subject animal. Legislation constituting a two-step jump from the current laws is needed. Laws sanctioning and requiring animal experimentation should be repealed. Laws significantly restricting acceptable experimentation should be enacted. The principle underlying this proposal for change is straightforward: Nonhuman animals, like human animals, have interests in the integrity of their
bodies which deserve legal protection. Only by repealing the present laws and enacting new …