"Bioethics" is a study of ways in which decisions in medicine and science touch upon our health and lives and upon our society and environment. It is concerned with questions about basic human values as the rights to life and health. It has an impact on every level of human community. Fundamental values are at stake: human life, the dignity of the frail and elderly, just healthcare, bodily integrity and the ability to make reasonable decisions. However, in order for scientists to test their experiments they require the use of animals as test subjects. It seems like a well worth factor to possibly finding cures to diseases. However, it may not be very effective at all. Because of vast anatomical, physiological, and genetic differences between humans and nonhuman animals, results from experiments on animals are often irrelevant to human health. Specific diseases almost always differ among species in prevalence, natural history, and responses to treatments.So that being said, researchers are routinely forced to create diseases in animal “models” that attempt to approximate certain aspects of the human disease but may not always translate well among species. The same “disease” typically manifests differently among common experimental animals such as mice, rats, dogs, and monkeys, between closely related species such as mice and rats, and even within the same species.There are two sources of suffering for animals living in laboratories: experimental procedures and confinement in the laboratory environment. Additionally, animals suffer from premature maternal separation, loss or lack of normal social bonds, the inability to express natural behaviors, and stressors associated with transportation and culling. Animals in laboratories are subjected to numerous invasive and painful procedures, including exposures to toxic drugs and chemicals, force-feeding, invasive surgeries, burns, traumatic injuries, injections, blood draws, biopsies, prolonged restraint, food and water deprivation, dart gun sedation, and psychological manipulation. Just because they are unable to express their pain verbally the way humans can, does not mean that they're treatment in laboratories is not cruel. Just like humans they crave love and affection, but to say that they should sacrifice their lives simply for ours is greatly heartless.
