Presents fifteen essays that provide varying perspectives on issues that relate to animal experimentation, and discusses ethics, students dissecting animals in schools, the actions of animal rights groups, and other topics.

Animal experimentation is ethical /Stuart W.G. Derbyshire -- Animal experimentation is not ethical / Animal Friends Croatia -- Pro and con positions oversimplify animal experimentation issues / Jonathan Wolff -- Dissection teaches students lessons in cruelty / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) -- Animal experimentation is necessary to assure product safety / PIR Partners Research -- Animal rights activists are terrorists / New Scientist -- Animal rights activists are not terrorists / Steven Best and Richard Kahn -- Mainstream animal rights groups support extremists' actions / Ed Owen -- Alternative testing can replace animal experimentation / Carol Howard -- Alternative testing cannot replace animal experimentation / George Poste -- Research funding is responsible for animal experimentation / National Anti-Vivesection Society -- Using primates in medical experimentation is unjustifiable / Humane Society of the United States -- Using monkeys in medical experimentation is justifiable / Research Defence Society -- Animal experimentation is vital for medical research / Foundation for Biomedical Research -- Animal experimentation is not vital for medical research / Pat Thomas.