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millions of animals die each year in experiments, others are often not adequately anaesthetised and are abused by handlers and experimenters.

ew breakthroughs have been made as a result of animal experimentatio

There has been a catalogue of errors and failures in animal testing,

Human beings share about 99% of their genes with chimpanzees and only slightly fewer with other monkeys. As a result, the reactions of these creatures are a very good guide to possible reactions of human patients. Even lower down the scale, other animals share the same basic physiology with humans. Furthermore, it would be immoral to risk the life of a human being when a medicine or procedure could instead be tested on a non-human animal. In fact, most animal experiments are done on animals that are nothing like hum

Scientifically, as well as morally, most animal experimentation is to be rejected - the reaction of a mouse to a substance is no guide to human reactions

The advent of genetic technologies has made possible all sorts of new and horrific acts of animal exploitation

t is only acceptable to test human medicines on human beings if they give their consent. Non-human animals are never able to give such consent

There has been a catalogue of errors and failures in animal testing,

"It's hard for my children to imagine me going away there," Sebire explains, "but I can't take this anymore."

The researchers hypothesized that although there would be no differences among those who watched the sad clip, the participants watching the happy clip who valued happiness would be less happy than those who did not value happiness. In the end, this is exactly what happened.