Humane Talk ™

Humane Talk features conversations with Thought Leaders in animal welfare, whose books or scientific studies focus on  practical and philosophical issues regarding society's attitudes and interactions with various non-human species. Discussions with members of the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association (HSVMA) are about applying humane and ethical principles to the way veterinary medicine is practiced in America and around the world, on animals used in research, food production, and pharmacology as well as companion animals.Interviews with social scientists and authors focus on the emotional and social lives of creatures other than human.

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Ethical Dilemma of Research With Animals

HUMANE TALK (03-20-2017) #8067: John Gluck talks about the ethical dilemma of research with animals and his book VORACIOUS SCIENCE & VULNERABLE ANIMALS: A PRIMATE SCIENTIST’S ETHICAL JOURNEY. He describes what has been done to monkeys in the name of science and how the moral ground shifted beneath his own feet during his early scientific career, propelling him to advocate on behalf of the subjects of these research studies which found themselves in a predicament for a lifetime.