How can you interpret this law?

Question

"Procedures involving animals should be designed and performed with due consideration of their relevance to human "

What do you think this means?

From my point of view i see that animal test should be done with there relation to human and what comes 2 mind is like genetics. Animals and humans have similar genetics but still not completely similiar enough to give off accurate results

this is part of law from the animal welfare act

im tryin to see how this law contraditcs itself. we have to find animals that are in relation to humans (maybe similar DNA) but why when if the DNA isnt exact.

How can humans and animals relate

Answer 1

Human - what?

In terms of welfare, animal experiments ought to be judged on the importance of the research. Breaking a monkey's arm and then shocking it into using it is much more an excersize in animal cruelty than meaningful research.

In terms of similarity, it is of course logical to preform research on animals designed around their similarity to humans. Studying chickens in an attempt to increase human egg production is ludricous. However, birds can be studied to increase human flight efficiency, even though humans do not fly themselves.

Answer 2

I agree with your interpretation, that experiments should be done on animals with a similar genetic makeup to humans so that there is less room for differences. For example, I think doing medical research on a jellyfish for the benefit of humans would not be as useful as research performed on a chimpanzee.

However, I can also see that rule meaning that people view animals (dogs, horses, cats, etc.) with affection, and we shouldn't perform experiments that are inconsiderate or harmful to these animals.

Answer 3

I'm not sure you have all the information here.

Could you be referring to "testing procedures" done on animals because it wouldn't be safe to test certain things on humans? Tests like experiments with shampoos being repeatedly placed in the eyes of monkeys to see if they cause damage where testing on humans would be... "inhumain."