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APS Position Statements
Animal Research: The Humane Response to Human Suffering
Animal research is the most humane response to human suffering from disease. Depriving sick human beings of the benefits of animal research is inhumane and reprehensible. The American Physiological Society advocates the use of animals for research and teaching as the most humane response to the need to relieve mankind from the suffering caused by disease. The use of animals is necessary if researchers are to combat illness, which affects both human beings and animals. The correct training of physicians and medical scientists also requires the use of animals for laboratory teaching. Textbooks, isolated cells, computer models, and other representations of the intact living organism can provide only a partial understanding of life processes for both the medical researcher and the student. Efforts to deny the human race the best possible curative power of modern sciences must be repulsed.
Adopted by the American Physiological Society Council, October 1987