Animal rights in biotechnology and biomedical research

The animal rights that so-called animal freedom, describe that animals must be seen as real identities and members of an ethical community, so they must not be used as food, clothes, entertainments and in research issues. Research on animals has an important role in many scientific and medical progresses in recent century and it is helping us for better understanding of diseases mechanisms. Today, people have higher quality of life, because of these progresses, medicines development and new cures. Animal rights groups believe that these experiments on animals are cruel and unnecessary and all experiments must be stopped. In according to that these experiments in biomedical field cannot be done without using animals; animals rights and welfare unions are looking for two main targets: the first is to decrease animal’s suffering and reduce the numbers of animals are used in experiments, and the second is induce sensitivity in researchers if they really need the animals for their research or not?. Today, because of some limitations, researchers are using alternative methods such as computer modeling, human cell lines and etc. However, the most important parts of biomedical research require using animals yet.