ve of the testing method to make sure that they have to use animals in the experiment (Day 29). In other words, it is required by the federal government that all studies on animals be humane, be scientifically or medically valuable, and be well designed (Kin 92). Many activists main concerns are the treatment of primates. They claim that primates are barely protected under any regulations. If this is true, than the veterinarians who are hired by the government to do daily checkups and complete medical examinations on primates are not doing their job. If it is true that they are not doing their job, than they would have been exposed by the committees hired to watch and write down every single step a person is doing in any part of an experiment. The committees then take the information they have recorded and store it in a public file for anybody concerned to review (93). Also, a researcher must answer ten questions successfully to proceed in the tests. Besides the numerous veterinarians who are hired to supervise the scientists who are doing the research on the animals, there are also committees who watch them, thus, making a fail-safe system for animals rights (Wil 79). Also, many activists say that scientists kill the animal after an experiment just because they have nothing more to use them for. They have the idea stuck in their head that scientists are cold-blooded murderers who dont care at all for animals. What the activists dont know is that to validate and conclude any experiment where animals are used, they must obtain tissue samples from the animal. In order to do this, the animal must be destroyed (Day 81). Many animal rights activists believe that there is an alternative to animal testing. It is called nonanimal testing and is defined as performing an experiment with no animals or as few animals as possible (Dol 36). Granted, some of these alternatives are effective. For instance, an alternative to toxicology, t...
