Found this while wondering through youtube. I think it’s great how King’s College has released this. All too often you see those horrible images from PETA et al and you think the people who are meant to care for the animals are monsters.
Rare look into a lab animal facility and an interview with a lab animal tech. I came very close to taking a job at one myself, but then I got the zoo job. Lab animal care is highly regulated, and held up to very high humane standards.
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I worked as an animal care technician for 4 months and it
was just like this! (…but with different animals)
Research done on animals is held to a much higher standard
of ethics than anything in the food industry or in recreational hunting. For
example, while fishing it is perfectly legal to let the fish suffocate after
you catch it. If you let a fish in research suffocate instead of properly
euthanizing it and ensuring it suffered as little as possible, it can lead to your
research being shut down and authorities can make it illegal for your entire institute
(not just the offending lab) to conduct research until ethical standards are met.
So are we serious about humane care of animals in research?
You betcha. (also the vast majority of us are animal lovers anyways :P)
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