Animal Rights and Ethics of Testing

This Act set the minimum requirements of how non-human animals ought to be handled in the lab for research, for sale, public shows or in transit. It protects the basin welfare of captured creatures. Though this law is excellent, anti-testing campaigners fault it for explicitly excluding about 90% of those animals used for laboratory tests, rats, and mice. Therefore to address this issue, an amendment like the Toxic Substances Control Act encourages the use of “no-animal alternative testing methodologies. ” Animal rights crusade must have started around 1975 when an Australian philosopher Peter Singer published “Animal Rights” contending the fact that humans can suffer just as the animals do which thus behooves us to treat them with as much care as we give ourselves.