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O N L I N E R E S E A R C H E T H I C S C O U R S E Section Five: Animals in Research CASE STUDY: Recovery and Multiple Use Applaud the PI's entrepreneurial attitude and encourage other researchers to think about how they can use leftover animals to help fund their own work. This choice is ethically prohibited. The primary responsibility of IACUC is to protect the welfare of animals. Allowing the animals to recover from a major surgery when that recovery has no scientific or educational benefit is contrary to the animal's welfare. It is also likely that the cost of a two-week recovery period would not be offset by the sale of the pigs for meat. In addition, if the pigs are to be sold for human food purposes, the pigs must receive only drugs that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration and the use of the drugs must be withdrawn for a period of time prior to the animals being sold for food. Last of all, IACUC must be concerned with public perceptions regarding animal use. It is not likely that the use of research animals for human food with pass the publicity test. If IACUC is not comfortable with the thought of defending the protocol publicly, the committee should not approve the protocol.
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