... their focus to animal experimentation, which has become one of today's largest controversies. Many animal rights activists see their fight against animal experimentation as a simple matter of moral duty, of ethics, or even of religious obligation. Tom Reagan states, "We can't justify harming or killing a human being. . .[N]either can we do so even in the case of so lowly a creature as ... claims have been made that "[w]hen bad conditions are found in a research environment, the work may be stopped" (Wood 47) researchers are still urged to conduct experimentation in vitro, using computer...

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... their focus to animal experimentation, which has become one of today's largest controversies. Many animal rights activists see their fight against animal experimentation as a simple matter of moral duty, of ethics, or even of religious obligation. Tom Reagan states, "We can't justify harming or killing a human being. . .[N]either can we do so even in the case of so lowly a creature as ... claims have been made that "[w]hen bad conditions are found in a research environment, the work may be stopped" (Wood 47) researchers are still urged to conduct experimentation in vitro, using computer...

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... drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, household cleaners, packing materials and pesticides. The tests account for approximately only 10 to 20 percent (or 2 to 4 million) of animals in labs but raises issues of ethics and humaneness of poisoning and harming animals in order to market new cosmetic or household products. It raises the question of whether or not the data from these tests is ... good data to study. Many alternatives may be available. The most fundamental alternative approach is in vitro testing procedures. In vitro testing is done in a tube. The vitro methods include computer modeling...

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... animals are treated"(Why Vegan? 1) Gandhi brings up a good point because the issue of Animal Rights is in fact an issue of one's moral code. To define the morality and ethics, this paper will refer to Ayn Rand's definition taken from the book, The Virtue of Selfishness. Rand describes itthis way, "It is a code of values to guide a man's choices and ... the field. Often times the researchers have no central data base to store information that is not even needed so the tests are continued over and over again. PETA states, "Computer modeling shows great promise for testing human responses ...

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