As a human being, I understand that the idea of using animals to run scientific research seems cruel. It’s probably even worse for a humanitarian to see the clinical efficiency with which some scientists sacrifice animals for their research. From that perspective, I can see why people are so against the use of animals in research. I feel like people believe that researchers are cold-hearted and don’t care about the animals that they are cruelly sacrificing. But that’s not the case at all. I think every scientist feels bad about it; if they didn’t then they wouldn’t have the need to establish ethical protocols for sacrificing animals. We take care to make sure that the animal feels as little pain as possible. We don’t want them to suffer. Researchers, more than anyone else, understand the importance of that animal’s life in my opinion. Scientists know that the animal’s sacrifice may mean an advancement in science, or a breakthrough that makes peoples’ lives better. If there was a way to do this without sacrificing animals, then researchers would gladly do it. I think researchers would gladly jump on that kind of chance. But since that is just not possible as of today, then researchers have to do what is necessary and sacrifice the lives of some animals for the improvement in science/academics and other areas as well. I know of a researcher personally who sacrifices a lot of mice for her research and she lights a incense stick in her office after the sacking. For her it’s a way to show respect for the lives lost. So researchers do care and if there was a better way to go about this without sacrificing animals, I think we would have employed it by now.