Links for animal research.

Why it is wrong to test animals for research into hair and makeup products?

Points of argument. Israel has banned testing, EU has banned the sale of those products into the EU. Methods have now improved enough for there to be no need for the practice. The Indian Council of Medical Research has also backed PETA and there goal of having the practiced abolished. 

 http://altweb.jhsph.edu/altex/28_2/altex_2011_2_083_093_FFT2.pdf
Food for Thought ... on Mapping the Human Toxome
Thomas Hartung 1 and Mary McBride 2
1CAAT, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA, and CAAT-Europe, University of
Konstanz, Germany; 2 Agilent Technologies, Government Relations, Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis, Washington, DC, USA

 

           http://animalrightskorea.org/essays/peter-singer-ethics-and-animals.html

Peter Singer: Ethics and Animals

From the 10th Dasan Memorial Lectures, 2007

Throughout Western civilization, nonhuman animals have been seen as beings of no ethical significance, or at best, of very minor significance. Aristotle thought that animals exist for the sake of more rational humans, to provide them with food and clothing. In the book of Genesis, man is given dominion over the animals, and only humans are made in God’s image. St Paul asked “Doth God care for oxen?” but it was a rhetorical question – he assumed that the answer was obviously no. Later Christian thinkers like Augustine and Aquinas reinforced this view, denying that the suffering of animals is any reason, in itself, for not harming them or for showing kindness towards them. (The only reason they offered for not being cruel to animals was that it may lead to cruelty to humans; the animals themselves were of no account.)

http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/files/regs/animal-welfare/animal-welfare-in-nz.pdf

Animals used in research, testing and teaching in New Zealand, as in many countries, laboratory animals (mainly rodents) and farm animals (mainly cattle and sheep) are used in research, testing and teaching activities (RTT).

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1999/0142/latest/DLM49664.html

Animal Welfare Act 1999

Public Act	1999 No 142
Date of assent	14 October 1999
Commencement	see section 1(2)