Laboratory animal is the animal with artificial feeding in the certain conditions, having the particular biological characteristics and for scientific research. They are indispensable props of life science and have ma...Laboratory animal is the animal with artificial feeding in the certain conditions, having the particular biological characteristics and for scientific research. They are indispensable props of life science and have made great contributions and sacrifices for human health and development. Laboratory animal science is an important branch of the life science, including laboratory animal and animal experiment. Along with development of mankind society, economy and civilization, now the realm of laboratory animal science is confronted with the problems of animal welfare and animal ethics. The animal protectionism inevitably conflict with the laboratory animal science in the certain way. People protect the wild animals first, then protect the artificially fed animal. Also people protect pets first and then protect the laboratory animals. Now it is popularization of protecting the wild and petted animals. It makes people hard to accept the reality of the experiments with animals. But life science especially biomedicine can’t make great progress without the laboratory animals. The difference of culture and notion between different countries and different regions causes the difference in the humanism attitude to animal protection. There is a saying in China, “When mouse run on the street, everyone will be shout to beat it". But the western people create the fine image of a Mickey Mouse. The pet is one of the family members. Now maltreating animal is the moral and law problem in some developed countries. Ethics is the societal standard of human behavior. In our country, the main ethic problems in laboratory animal science lie below: relative rules and laws are absent, while no established restriction or punishment could be found to restrict those actions such as slaughtering laboratory animals. Several technical operations going against laboratory animal ethics still exist. The emotional conflicts between animal feeder and animal experimenter are not be relaxed. Since recent more than ten years, ethic research has achieved great development at the laboratory animal science field in our country. This is mainly due to the rapid progress of the national economy and that of the international relationship at the same time, which promoted communications between cultures from East and West, and by the way changed social opinions greatly. The appearance of the laboratory animal monuments and import of the “3R" theory serve as the main indication of the great development that achieved, while the 108th Xiangshan Science Conference titled as “Ethic problems in life scientific research at our country“ held at April, 2002 could be considered as a more convincing evidence. More than forty experts from different research fields or manage departments attended the meeting and discussed several subjects such as what kind of ethic and jurally problems lied inside the life science research, how to decide the social responsibility of scientists, how to face the ethic problems related to the constitution of the rules of life science, and so on. Advices below were brought forward by the attendees: ethic and jurally problems induced from the life science research should be considered in time by the government, related rules enacted, operation potency of existing rules strengthened so as to regulate life science research in our country and to facilitate international communication. National bioethics committee should be founded as soon as possible to guide relative decisions. Discussions and educations should be carried through broadly over the country. In the lately revised draft of the Management Regulation for Laboratory Animal in China, first time, the regulation about animal welfare has been made an independent chapter which propounds such as taking good care of laboratory animal, encouraging research and application for the replacement methods of animal experiments. It also propounds that in the case of involving ethic problems; the management affairs of laboratory animal should accord with national norm and international routine.展开更多
文摘Laboratory animal is the animal with artificial feeding in the certain conditions, having the particular biological characteristics and for scientific research. They are indispensable props of life science and have made great contributions and sacrifices for human health and development. Laboratory animal science is an important branch of the life science, including laboratory animal and animal experiment. Along with development of mankind society, economy and civilization, now the realm of laboratory animal science is confronted with the problems of animal welfare and animal ethics. The animal protectionism inevitably conflict with the laboratory animal science in the certain way. People protect the wild animals first, then protect the artificially fed animal. Also people protect pets first and then protect the laboratory animals. Now it is popularization of protecting the wild and petted animals. It makes people hard to accept the reality of the experiments with animals. But life science especially biomedicine can’t make great progress without the laboratory animals. The difference of culture and notion between different countries and different regions causes the difference in the humanism attitude to animal protection. There is a saying in China, “When mouse run on the street, everyone will be shout to beat it". But the western people create the fine image of a Mickey Mouse. The pet is one of the family members. Now maltreating animal is the moral and law problem in some developed countries. Ethics is the societal standard of human behavior. In our country, the main ethic problems in laboratory animal science lie below: relative rules and laws are absent, while no established restriction or punishment could be found to restrict those actions such as slaughtering laboratory animals. Several technical operations going against laboratory animal ethics still exist. The emotional conflicts between animal feeder and animal experimenter are not be relaxed. Since recent more than ten years, ethic research has achieved great development at the laboratory animal science field in our country. This is mainly due to the rapid progress of the national economy and that of the international relationship at the same time, which promoted communications between cultures from East and West, and by the way changed social opinions greatly. The appearance of the laboratory animal monuments and import of the “3R" theory serve as the main indication of the great development that achieved, while the 108th Xiangshan Science Conference titled as “Ethic problems in life scientific research at our country“ held at April, 2002 could be considered as a more convincing evidence. More than forty experts from different research fields or manage departments attended the meeting and discussed several subjects such as what kind of ethic and jurally problems lied inside the life science research, how to decide the social responsibility of scientists, how to face the ethic problems related to the constitution of the rules of life science, and so on. Advices below were brought forward by the attendees: ethic and jurally problems induced from the life science research should be considered in time by the government, related rules enacted, operation potency of existing rules strengthened so as to regulate life science research in our country and to facilitate international communication. National bioethics committee should be founded as soon as possible to guide relative decisions. Discussions and educations should be carried through broadly over the country. In the lately revised draft of the Management Regulation for Laboratory Animal in China, first time, the regulation about animal welfare has been made an independent chapter which propounds such as taking good care of laboratory animal, encouraging research and application for the replacement methods of animal experiments. It also propounds that in the case of involving ethic problems; the management affairs of laboratory animal should accord with national norm and international routine.
