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Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first
duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them wherever they require it.
St. Francis of Assisi
Vivisection Links:
Animal Experimentation Pictures
General
'There are, in fact, only two categories of doctors and scientists who are
not opposed to vivisection: those who don't know enough about it, and those who make money from it.'
Dr. Werner Hartinger
British Anti-Vivisection Association www.bava.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
American Anti-Vivisection Society www.aavs.org/home.html
Animal Welfare Contacts Directory Worldwide veggies.org.uk/acd/index.htm
www.vivisection-absurd.org.uk/art.html
Extensive resources and links. Many thanks.
vivisection-absurd.org.uk
Analysis of whether vivisection has any scientific merit or can be ethically defended.
National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS)
Medical Research Modernization Committee
“Modernizing Medical Research and Promoting Human Health” publishes A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation excerpted here.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine PCRM
www.saav.org.za/what_is_vivisection.php:
“What Kind of Experiments are Conducted??
Animals are used in almost any experiment conceivable. They are forced to ingest or inhale anything from eye mascara and pen ink to detergents, pesticides and
pharmaceutical products. A common acute toxicity test is the LD50 Test, where a group of animals are force-fed a substance to see how much of that substance is
needed to kill half of them. Many of the animals die from ruptured organs as a result of the force feeding process and not from the test product. In the Draize Eye Irritancy
Test, a frequently performed experiment, rabbits are immobilised in stocks and have a test substance dripped or sprayed into their eyes. No pain relief is given. In
psychological experiments, animals are subjected to torments like maternal deprivation, drug and alcohol addiction and brain damage.
In about 85% of[animal] experiments, no anaesthetic is used ... 33 animals die in laboratories around the world every second [the US is world leader with 1 animal per
second]. In South Africa [and to my knowledge most "civilized" countries] no legal protection exists for laboratory animals.
The dog pictured had its leg deliberately shattered with a hammer to induce
psychological stress. The dog received no anaesthetic nor medical treatment during or after the injury was inflicted (Source: Entering the Gates of Hell, IAAPEA).”
www.health.org.nz/cancer.html
“...claim that the prevention and cure of cancer is to be found through vivisection. An
increasing amount of medical evidence and ... doctors and scientists are saying that vivisection causes cancer. That the prevention of cancer means abolishing the
products of vivisection.” Their detailed book Animal Research Takes Lives - Humans
and Animals Both Suffer offer for free online was written as a rebuttal of the booklet
Animal Research Saves Lives distributed in November 1990 by the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture (MAF).
More info all over the internet, some pictures of what is done at this moment to
man's best friend and other highly sentient beings for instance here:
Vivisection Pictures
'If ever there were a blackest of all black sin committed against God and his fair creation, vivisection is surely it.'
Gandhi
Animal Research Pictures
www.novivisezione.org/mostra/index_en.htm
Hidden Crimes. Photographic exhibition on vivisection.
www.geocities.com/jeniegirl27/AnimalTesting.html
Anti-vivisection
www.vivisectionsucks.com
FREE Vivisection Sucks email address and ecards that raise money to protect Animals & the Environment!
www.freetheanimals.homestead.com/vivisection.html
Primate Research Pictures
tomregan-animalrights.com/archive/primates.ht ml
PRIMATE VIVISECTION.
www.atourhands.com/research.html
Animal Research Pictures, including dog, cat, primate, rabbit and rodent research, as well as dissection and product testing.
Dog & Cat Research Pictures
‘I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.'
Gandhi
www.atourhands.com/vividogs1.html
Pictures of vivisection and animal research on man’s best friend. ... .
tomregan-animalrights.com/archive/vividogs.html
D OG VIVISECTION.
www.atourhands.com/research.html
Animal Research Pictures, including dog, cat, primate, rabbit and rodent research, as well as dissection and product testing.
In Conclusion
'I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.'
Gandhi
In my eyes animal experiments are an ongoing daily holocaust perpetrated against millions of the weakest and most defenseless in
the chain of life (including "man's best friend" (ab)used in this manner), while simultaneously doing tremendous harm to human health and literally life. After reading some or all of the many articles
devoted to this subject on Healing Cancer Naturally (here is the
complete list of articles on Cancer Research, Toxicity Testing & Animal Experimentation: an Unholy Union?), I trust that you will
have arrived at the similar conclusion that “animal testing does not help human medicine", in fact quite the opposite seems to be true. As you will have seen, many medical scientists have spoken out
against vivisection both on strictly scientific and ethical grounds but so far haven't been truly heard. Literally, “business” - because this is
what it fundamentally boils down to - continues as usual, meaning repetitive tests, useless at best and lethal in their consequences for humans at worst (to say nothing of the animals involved), are being
performed on mostly unanaesthesized animals by their millions. 33 of them die worldwide every second, often or mostly after suffering atrociously, with the US assuming a saddening first place with one
animal every second. All of this in order to sell drugs, cosmetics, cleaners etc. all too often fallaciously tested and released as "safe" for humans since no adverse effects could be found in animals.
Animal experimentation as oftentimes demonstrated proves little to nothing since its results cannot (or in rare instances only) be
extrapolated to humans. This makes it just another unspeakable means employed by the drug and chemical companies and medical cartels etc. to make money and further their ends. The cruelty of
animal testing goes hand in hand with these industries' common disregard for human welfare no matter how much they may feign otherwise.
So generally speaking, animal tests could justifiably be called 'as useless and dangerous for humans as cruel to animals' (e.g.
Thalidomide was tested safe on rats while Alexander Fleming’s antibiotic penicillin would have never been allowed for human consumption had it initially been tested on guinea pigs or hamsters,
since it kills those species!). In the words of “Howard Florey, the Nobel Prize winner credited with co-discovering and manufacturing penicillin”: “How fortunate we didn’t have these animal tests in the
1940s, for penicillin would probably never been granted a license, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realized.”
There are far superior alternatives to animal experimentation that do not involve cruelty to animals and give much more reliable results
for humans (such as tests performed on human cell cultures, compare Cancer Research Without Animals: Improved Cell Culture
Methods for Anti-Cancer Drug Development). These humane and solely reliable test methods just need to be implemented, and if a
sufficiently large part of the public calls for them, they will be applied - to everyone's benefit! Please consider joining this call!"
What You Can Do
Spread the word
by telling others about these pages and other websites indicting animal experimentation as seriously harming both humans and animals.
Become a caring consumer
Shop companies that test their products on animals “out of business” by only buying from those using ethical and more scientifically
honest production methods. Use PETA’s guide to COMPANIES THAT DO/DON’T TEST ON ANIMALS and check out www.caringconsumer.com. Alternatively, use the National
Anti-Vivisection Society’s helpful search utility:
“Who Is and Who Isn't Testing on Animals
“Determining whether a product is or is not tested on animals is easy! Simply type in the name of the company or product in the search bar [provided here] and press Search. NAVS has created this
simple process to help you make decisions on what products to purchase. By adopting a cruelty free lifestyle, one that chooses respect for animals when selecting products, you are sending a
powerful message to companies that you won't support an industry that perpetuates animal suffering.
NAVS also provides a Personal Care for People Who Care book.
You will find ethical and compassionate lifestyles information also at vegansociety.com/html/people/lifestyle/ and I think many other places.
Avoid taking medicinal drugs
that have been tested on animals to the greatest extent possible. You may both help yourself (including saving your own life), spare
animals a torturous life and death and help the environment.
See On Drugs and Cruelty-Free Products Are More Environmentally Friendly.
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