Why are you so focused on the western context for animal experiments? I'm sure it's more comforting to think about ethics boards and well run universities. But there are exemptions for militaries and other loopholes for smaller creatures, regular stories of abuse in labs, to say nothing of ghastly experiments done in China, which doesn't have ANY national or regional protection laws, among other countries.
The post was about human consideration of animals as a resource generally.
It's not much of an argument saying that since eating animals is a thing, (the comfortably narrowly selected example of) other things we do with them is no cause for questions.
The post was about human consideration of animals as a resource generally.
It's not much of an argument saying that since eating animals is a thing, (the comfortably narrowly selected example of) other things we do with them is no cause for questions.