One of the barriers between ordinarily compassionate
animal researchers and pro-animal ethicists is that the
ethicists are usually seen as asking for far too much.
They are perceived as demanding the complete abandonment
of careers. In consequence, the ethicist is often ignored.
Ethicists rarely give clear-cut rules to animal researchers
as to how they can continue in animal research while at
the same time adopting an increasingly moral approach.
The purpose of this paper is to provide some rules to help
the animals by aiding conscientious researchers who are
not (yet) in a position to give up their careers entirely.
These are ethical rules and not, therefore, in
quite the same category as Russell and Burch's “three
Rs” (replacement, refinement, and reduction) or the
proposal that experimenters should seek proper training
and retraining in animal care, and in the skills of euthanasia,
anaesthesia, and analgesia. Nor are ethical rules quite
the same as the requirement that all experimenters should
acquaint themselves with the latest techniques for improving
the animals' quality of life (such as the techniques
of environmental enrichment, for example) or the need to
keep themselves up to date in alternative research techniques
that do not use animals. All these steps are of great importance
and should be taken in addition to the ethical rules I
propose.
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