The debate about whether to conduct experiments on animals,
known in the animal rights community as vivisection, is one of
the most difficult to understand.Why do animal rights activists
oppose using non-human animals for medical research? Animal
rights activists are opposed to using animals for medical
research because humans do not have the right to use animals.
With few exceptions, we do not experiment on human subjects
without their consent. Just as we do not experiment on humans
who are incapable of consenting to experimentation, we should
not experiment on non-human animals. Non-human animals cannot
give informed consent, and the vast majority of experiments
using animals are so invasive and injurious, we would never even
consider allowing humans to consent to being subjects in such
experiments.Isn’t there a law to protect animals in
laboratories? In the United States, the Animal Welfare Act
appears to set certain minimum requirements for the humane
treatment of non-human animals in laboratories and oth