People eloquently use the phrase "Necessary Evil" to rationalize hunting, slaughter houses and what not. I loathe that phrase, there is nothing necessary about evil. It's all about human unwillingness and not inability to understand and alleviate the suffering of other species. Only exception is medical research, where we haven't progressed technically to find an alternative to animals testing. Until then we have a moral obligation to alleviate the suffering those creatures, who live in hell for our betterment.
Simon Festing, chief executive of Understanding Animal Research writes about the lackluster attitude of some researchers - here:
"One of the papers causing concern is an analysis of more than 1350 animal experiments on the treatment of stroke (PLoS Biology, vol 8, p e1000344). The authors used statistical tools to predict that a further 214 experiments had been conducted but the results never published - the so called "file drawer problem". That is 1 in 7 studies that never see the light of day. The authors concluded that this publication bias has probably distorted the collective findings of the published studies, as research usually remains unpublished because it failed to find any positive effect of a treatment."
"The use of animals is a privilege, and must always be undertaken responsibly."
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