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Is it morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research?
Results so far:
| No | 37% | 633 votes | Total: 1711 votes | |
| Yes | 63% | 1078 votes |
No
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Created on: January 17, 2008 Last Updated: February 26, 2012
Three animals lined up to be injected with a new drug to test whether or not it shriveled their testicles
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Created on: May 15, 2008
Pinel (2006) advises us to use caution when considering the views of individuals or organizations that
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Created on: June 16, 2007
This is an area where there is not a morally pure right or wrong, only shades of Grey.
Animal rights
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Created on: June 11, 2007
As an animal lover, I refuse to wear coats from animals farmed only for their fur. As a mother, I am
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Created on: October 15, 2007 Last Updated: December 21, 2009
It is wrong to make fun or criticize someone for something that they are unable to control. And, it
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by Spike Wyatt
Created on: December 13, 2008 Last Updated: May 13, 2009
We live in a world where few moral questions have a clear-cut answer, even questions of life and death.
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by Angie Nelson
Created on: April 16, 2009
Deep in my heart somewhere I want to say yes, it is morally wrong, please free the animals; yet I know
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by Bobby Ford
Created on: June 05, 2007
It is, of course, easy to say that animal testing is cruel and unnecessary but this is essentially naive.
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by Breda Coyle
Created on: June 24, 2008
These animals are born into captivity therefore they know no other way of happiness. As well, the main
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Created on: November 09, 2007
I think it is morally wrong to do medical research without testing, and it is morally wrong to test
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by Kai
Created on: August 27, 2007
When asked if it is morally wrong to use animals in medical research I have to say no. Using animals
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by Molly Carter
Created on: June 16, 2007
If you answered yes to the following question, I assume that you have never taken Advil for a headache.
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by emily zola
Created on: July 06, 2007
Consider that testing drugs on mice and dogs is the prelude to clinical trials where the same drugs
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by Lynette Ayre
Created on: June 17, 2007
As a child I used to think poor little mousie' being used in trials for testing products used on people.
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by Ted Sherman
Created on: June 16, 2007
There's a double negative here. Therefore, by voting NO, you're approving of medical research on animals.
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Created on: June 16, 2007
Is it morally wrong to use animals for our own consumption? Is it morally wrong to force animals to
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by Peg Lewis
Created on: June 28, 2008
In the summer of 1963, I had a job at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in their mouse lab.
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Created on: June 17, 2007
Perhaps the real value of animal research is seen in the lives of people who directly benefit from the
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Created on: June 16, 2007
The people who say using animals in drug research is wrong amaze me. What do they suggest scientist
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by Vicki Brown
Created on: June 16, 2007 Last Updated: November 09, 2009
This is a very controversial issue. On the surface, it does seem morally wrong. I think images of animals
Yes
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Created on: September 02, 2007
The Scientific Case Against Animal Experiments
You know, one of my most entertaining fantasies is that
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Created on: June 17, 2007
If we use mice and dogs in medical research then we are elevating our position to the same level as
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by Avril Lang
Created on: June 18, 2007 Last Updated: July 30, 2010
Which of us, faced with the serious illness of a loved one, would tell the researcher on the brink of
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Created on: February 03, 2008
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be held in a cage? never knowing what was going
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by Kay Peace
Created on: June 25, 2007
The question that stems from the one above is, "Wrong according to whose morals?" Morality is a gray
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by Cheryl Baker
Created on: June 22, 2007 Last Updated: November 11, 2007
Once you've been here a few days, you lose respect for all living things.."
This was told to me by a
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Created on: June 20, 2008 Last Updated: January 08, 2010
I find this process; morally, ethically and religiously wrong. First of all, the physiology of animals
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Created on: January 24, 2010 Last Updated: January 25, 2010
It is morally wrong to use mice or dogs (or any animals) in medical research because we have no right
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Created on: July 09, 2007 Last Updated: February 04, 2010
Of course it is wrong! Using living beings to test medicines that can damage or possibly kill living
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Created on: June 26, 2007
It is estimated that 50 to 100 million animals worldwide, from fruit flies and mice to primates are
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Created on: June 22, 2007 Last Updated: November 11, 2010
Absolutely; it is wrong to use animals for medical research. Just because they don't have the ability
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by Gigi Marquis
Created on: November 16, 2007
Right and Wrong. Two of the most misinterpreted words in use politically and morally today. Is animal
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Created on: April 13, 2008
While I stand against animal testing in general terms, it's impossible to have such a clear-cut answer.
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Created on: July 19, 2007
Of course it's morally wrong to use helpless animals for research. The other living breathing beings
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Created on: March 04, 2008
When people argue over the use of animals in research, there are those who defend the animals and those
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Created on: July 21, 2007
It is absolutely morally wrong to use mice, dogs or any other animal for that matter, in research of
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Created on: February 02, 2008 Last Updated: September 14, 2008
I would say, we should use people, and animals who have nothing to lose. Lets say there is a new drug,
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by Krislynn
Created on: January 27, 2008
I ask myself how a question like this can even be asked when we can clearly see that mice, dogs, or
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Created on: February 02, 2008
Auschwitz for animals. Enough said? This of course is in reference to the lives that animals that are
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by Arpita Kabra
Created on: June 08, 2007
It is definitely morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research. If anyone is wondering why,
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