Scientific use of animals

• Animals can be used in drug development, vaccine trials and oncology
• Cloning refers to creating genetically identical copies of plants or animals
• Cloning can:

  • prevent endangered species
  • improve animals to make them disease resistant or to increase meat and fur yield
  • Therapeutic cloning of cells to understand disease
• Ethical issues of cloning:

  1. Animals cannot provide consent
  2. Often anaesthetics aren't used which increases pain
  3. The same experiment could take place many times unnecessarily
  4. human-animal hybrids
• 80-90% of the UK public support using animals to cure serious diseases like AIDS and cancer