Unit 2 Proposal

I am going to analyze the Animal Welfare Act (passed in 1966 and many times since revived). There are multiple aspects surrounding the act that provide grounds for support and opposition. There are the ethics involved for the human treatment of living creatures, there is a social agenda involved, there is a priority factor (humans over animals), there is an endless list of possible viewpoints to describe. I have all kinds of Neuroscience books that have sections about animal testing. Through these texts, I will find sources to use for my research. I can also, obviously, just use the internet and google away but I've found my Neuroscience texts to have very appealing arguments so I would like to use those as guides to finding primary sources that are most likely going to be Pro-Animal Research. I will have to use the internet to find sources for the other side of the arguments (Anti-Animal Research). I am very interested in animal research because I am a Neuroscience major and it is the field I hope to work in after medical school. I am not biased so I will not favor a side more strongly going into the research. I imagine we all will choose a side, even if subconsciously, to our arguments after the amount of deep research we will be putting into the controversies but I will most definitely keep my influences out of my assignment as it carries on.