It Feels it Just the Same: Animal Experimentation Animal experimentation is one part of many in the fight for animal rights. The main goal of animal activist is, “. . . to stop the intentional and/or unintentional mistreatment of animals used in experiments for the scientific advancement of the human race”(Begley, pg. 66). Animal experimentation was first challenged by the antivivisectionists in the Nineteenth Century. Antivivisectionist were those who were against the dissection of live animals. “Today animal welfare advocates primarily refer to the insignificance of most research, the needless duplication of experimentation, the use of too many animals, and