The federal program for inspections, oversight, voluntary inspections and accreditation, and strict conformance to all rules and regulations help foster a community standard for trust and good animal care. The dedication and training of all scientists involved in these endeavors helps ensure high ethical standards. Research with animals is an unnecessary repetition of previously-known facts. Aside from scientific validation and replication procedures required to verify new findings, research that attempts to merely duplicate previously documented and verified facts is contrary to federal regulations and University of Minnesota policy. Professional journals refuse to publish research articles that merely replicate already-known and proven research findings.
All research involves pain and distress.
Researchers are required to administer anesthesia or pain-killing medications to prevent or relieve pain if a study requires any procedure likely to inflict pain or suffering. Researchers are cold and unfeeling about the animals in their studies. Researchers go to great lengths to ensure that the animals in their care have appropriate food, living conditions, and socialization, and that they are disease and pain free. Instances of animal abuse are rare. All research involving animals is reviewed by veterinarians to ensure compliance with accepted medical and husbandry procedures.