ATTITUDES OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TO THE USES OF ANIMALS

This article reports the results of a questionnaire study of the attitudes of university undergraduate students to various uses of animals. The majority of students objected to the killing of animals to make luxury clothing, but accepted the killing of animals for food. Many students disapproved of circumstances which confine animals. About one-sixth of biology students objected to animal dissection; about two-thirds disapproved of animal experimentation in general terms. However, students apparently employ the idea of 'necessity' in making judgements, so that fewer students objected to animal experimentation for medical research.