Investing in healthcare – Stewart Investors

Understanding practices and disclosures on animal testing.

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... Can it ever be ethical to inflict pain on animals? If so, under what circumstances? What if their suffering helps to discover a drug with the potential to save or transform millions of lives? What if testing an experimental drug or procedure on one group of animals helps to develop a treatment that will spare countless other animals from suffering? And, where there are viable alternatives, to what lengths should companies go to use them?

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