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Essay / Animal Experiment Trial - 1302
Such medical experiments on monkeys have created serious health problems and infected wounds, stuck bones, gnawed fingers and toes and even resulted in death. For example, at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, “monkeys were forced and even subjected to electric shocks to run on a treadmill” (Owen 45). Such harsh and unethical human actions and abuse of monkeys to improve the lives of humans is unjustifiable, as Regan states, "the fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources, here for us – to be eaten, or surgically manipulated, or exploited for sport or money” (Lehman Hugh) Scientists experiment on monkeys in the laboratory because of their large availability and other such economic advantages. that their low cost the lack of an overall principle for dealing with animal experiments such as medical research on monkeys has allowed scientists to put their lives at risk and the generation of such medical experiments on monkeys. are also increased. Potential risk of infecting other monkeys and animals when humans die. Additionally, much research done on monkeys does not apply to humans, as it has had adverse effects on humans. The side effect on humans implies that even if humans and