Animal Experimentation: Cruelty or Science ?

by Nancy Day

Discusses issues surrounding animal experimentation, including animal rights, medical breakthroughs, and alternatives to animal experimentaion.

128 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Nancy Day (Sakaduski) is the author of more than 100 articles and 15 books. Nancy has a B.A. in Communications from the University of Maryland and an Executive M.B.A. from Loyola College. She currently resides in Chadds Ford, PA, where she is working on the third edition of Scientific English (as co-author).

Nancy is President of Sakaduski Marketing Solutions, Inc., a consulting firm that works with companies in the dental industry.

In addition to her business and writing activities, Nancy is heavily involved in community service. She is the Chester County Master Gardener Coordinator; serves on the Board of Directors and is Vice President of the Center for the Creative Arts, an arts center in Yorklyn Delaware; is a member of the Resource Development Committee for 4-H Creating Community Networks, an organization that provides outreach services in at-risk neighborhoods; and is on the Board of Directors of the Sanderson Museum in Chadds Ford.

AWARDS: Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Award for Nonfiction, 1995, for article "Mapping the Mind"; Best Social Studies Book of the Year designation from Society of School Librarians International, 2003 CALIFORNIA COLLECTION.

Reviews

[Dylan Richno · Rating 5 out of 5]

The purpose of the author writing this book is to show how experimenting on animals is good for somethings but bad in many different ways. Yes, animals are or can be a cure for some diseases but what happens if a certain animals goes istinct because of over experimentation. He also shows how the non beleievers in experimenting on animals act out by ruining labs and taking back the animals and giving them a home to live.

I think the theme of this book is that no matter how hard you try on something you may never find a solution. The scientists probably still keep tryin and tryin but the are always getting the same result , nothing. The animal rights progrms said it best "its not worth killing or experimenting on a living thing if it gets ou know where." That is what the theme of the book is in my opinion.

I think the Author wrote this book in a good way. He starts out in the prespective of a scientist on how this isnt wrong and then out of no where the animal rights programs ruin experiments and save animals. He did a great job of elaborating on what he was trying to state in this story.

I liked this book very much and hope to read other books about the shameful things done to animals and how it is prevented. It was explained very well throughout and I learned alot of information from this. I think animals should be protected more today because they can find other ways of curing things by using other resources.

[Donovan · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a difficult book to rate. On one hand, it was informative and gave both sides of the argument concerning animal experimentation, which was helpful. On the other hand, I have trouble giving it a high rating because there was something on almost every page that made me want to a) vomit or b) punch a wall. However, these two factors are not equal to the point that I could give the book a neutral rating (2- it was ok)...