Animais transgênicos em pesquisas: conflitos éticos

Abstract

The use of animal models is still widely used around the world as a source of research for scientific advances. Over time, transgenic animals began to be generated with the premise that gene editing would bring more answers about certain human diseases and their benefits. However, there is a profound need to discuss the ethical conflicts involved in generating these animals as unnatural animals, and how they are highly instrumentalized and vulnerable. Thus, this work seeks to debate the nature of the non-human animal and how transgenics modifies this nature, speciesism as an oppressive structure, the ethics of responsibility towards the researcher in the face of biotechnological development in the generation of transgenic animals and means of replacing the use of these animals. To this end, an extensive bibliographical search was carried out to support the argument. With this, it is clear that the generation of transgenic animals should not be an option, mainly due to the lack of concrete data on their use and results obtained from research, aiming at an ethical science in which scientific progress is combined with moral progress.