Invertebrate well-being: an ethical parameter of scientific and social research responsibility?

Abstract

We aimed to evaluate the promotion of the welfare of invertebrates used in research through their representation in the scientific community, the dissemination of research and inclusion in ethical debates. The analysis resulted in the predominance of biological, utilitarian approa-ches in animals of medical and economic interest, whose incipience of information on the con-ditions  of  collecting,  manipulation,  and  experimentation  compromise  the  reproducibility  and  development of the area. It is discussed the inclusion of the invertebrates in the ethics deba-tes,  whose  claim  for  standards  and  protection,  demands  the  exploitation  of  the  researcher  in  search of technical and ethical excellence in the planning, execution and dissemination of his research to strengthen the social and scientific contract generator of benefits to science and to the animal’s quality of life