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Discussions of the treatment of animals typically focus on their use as food and clothing, omitting the widespread use of animals in laboratory research. Animals serve as experimental subjects in teaching surgical operations; in testing the efficiency and safety of drugs, food, cars, household cleaners, and makeup; in psychological studies of pain, stress, and depression; and in satisfying the curiosity and desire of humans to learn more about biological processes. In so doing they are subjected to shocks, burns, lesions, crashes, stresses, diseases, mutilations, and the general array of slings and arrows of the laboratory environment.
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Mayo, D.G. (1983). Against a Scientific Justification of Animal Experiments. In: Miller, H.B., Williams, W.H. (eds) Ethics and Animals. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5623-6_24
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