Ahimsa in the Laboratory: India’s quiet revolution against animal testing

Ahimsa in the Laboratory: India’s quiet revolution against animal testing

Yastu sarvāṇi bhūtāni ātmanyevānupaśyati| sarvabhūteṣu chātmānaṁ tato na vijugupsate|| One who sees all beings in the self and the self in all beings, feels no hatred or revulsion toward any creature. Long before the word “bioethics” entered any scientific vocabulary, India had already given the world a founding principle for how living beings ought to treat one another ahimsa. Mahavira preached it as the highest duty. The Buddha built an entire…