Animal Care Committee
Ethical Scenario #2
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Animal Care Committee |
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Scenario Set-Up
The regulations state that you must use the 3Rs of Research- Reduction, Refinement and Replacement. What if reduction and refinement are at odds with each other? For example, say you are working with non-human primates. These are highly intelligent creatures, so you feel the need to use the least amount of animals possible in your research project. However, what you are doing to the animals may cause pain and distress. You have two choices: reduce the animal numbers and cause more pain to fewer animals or increase the animal numbers and cause less pain to more animals.
What do you do?
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