Ethical Issues of Animal Research

Ethical decisions in business research involves making choices that are socially responsible and benefit the business making the choice, other businesses, and the community. According to Pelosi, Sandifer, and Sekaran (2001), every stage of performing business research requires sound ethical procedures (p. 327). The development of expanded research has led to the establishment of specific courses of action that require strict adherence for ethical purposes. This paper discusses the ethical issues and the impact of these issues involved with using animals in conducting research as expressed in articles located on the Internet.
Ethical thinkers in past years helped to develop the moral principles taken in using animals for research purposes. The principles derived from these thinkers assisted in establishing decisions based on the tolerable and unacceptable ways for scientists to use animals in all facets of animal-centered research. Due to these principles, the human race now ...