Provide a 5 pages analysis while answering the following question: Use of Animals for Scientific Research. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Supporters of the use of animals in scientific research cite the death of a negligible number of animals for the greater good of humanity which would be afforded better medical care that would improve the average life expectancy of people and also the quality of life that people experience. The other side of the debate is, however, equally strong. Supporters of the opposite point of view argue that while looking to save more human lives in a strictly utilitarian and commercial manner, one must not lose sight of the ethical aspects that need to be looked into as a part of this issue. Whether man has the right to take the life of another organism for his own purposes is an extremely difficult question to answer and the need for the humane treatment of animals would require that the lives of innocent animals be spared, even though the resulting world may be a less comfortable one for human beings. This argument lays stress on the rights of animals to exist and on their equal rights to the resources of the world and at the very least, their very own lives. In certain cases, animal lives may be lost due to nothing more than negligence on the part of authorities and scientists. This paper shall seek to identify the questions that are a part of this issue and the multiple positions that are taken by the different parties involved in the debate.

The deaths that are caused due to negligence and to test the effectiveness of weapons such as bombs are often avoidable. The history of the debate that is under discussion in this paper, according to Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette, in the modern world begins from the debates that surrounded the death of farm animals during the testing of atomic bombs in Nevada in May 1953 (Shrader-Frechette, 1994). Litigation on this matter brought to the public consciousness the issue of animal welfare and the ethical treatment of animals.