Animal Experimentation and Animal Welfare: International Legal Arrangement
Abstract
Animal welfare is one of the challenging issues of the world. Obviously, it is the laboratory where animal suffers most. Animals are used to examine side effects of drugs and to test materials for cosmetic research. There is a long debate on animal experimentation though it is common to all over the world. Sometimes scientists conduct experiment without justifying its necessity and animals suffer much and die from their merciless testing. It is a matter of great concern that there is no international binding treaty guiding the core principles of animal research. This research work tries to kindle on the importance of invoking international initiatives for protection of interest of research animals. Animals possess moral status. Thus, we have to raise our moral consideration towards them.
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