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The big business of vivisection wants you to believe that science must use animals in experimentation for human safety and to advance medical health. Here are the facts:
- Vivisectors (animal experimenters) attempt to recreate the symptoms of human
diseases or injuries in healthy animals through deliberate, artificial
and often violent methods. Similar symptoms may be created in the
animal, but these similarities bear little resemblance to actual
diseases in human beings, which usually arise as the result of a
complex pattern of factors, which cannot be replicated in the
laboratory. Western (allopathic) medicine, based on vivisection,
focuses almost exclusively on suppressing or disguising symptoms,
rather than treating the original cause of the disease.
- We now know that more than 90 percent of human diseases are caused by
environmental impacts or lifestyle choices. The need for cures is
largely a myth created to sustain a multi-billion dollar medical
structure.
- Animals are very different from each other and different from humans. Even
species that seem similar, such as rats and mice, react differently to
different drugs. This is known as species specificity. Researchers
themselves acknowledge that, because of species specificity,
information obtained from animal experimentation is not reliably
applicable to humans; extrapolations are inevitably inaccurate.
Sometimes the information used from animal experiments is so
inaccurate that it results in harm to humans, as when a drug must be
recalled because of unexpected side effects. If animal testing was
accurate, this would never occur.
- Vivisection is actually a huge business, with billions of dollars involved in
breeding, grants, fundraising and salaries. Those enmeshed in this
industry will do everything they can to perpetuate their profits,
including misleading the public about the efficacy of animal
experimentation.
- There are effective replacement techniques available to use in place of
animal tests such as computer models, in vitro testing, and the like.
- Animal experimenters would have you believe that animal suffering is minimal
in laboratories. In fact, the cruelty perpetrated by vivisectors every
day, every minute, is so overwhelming it is at first difficult to
grasp. The photographs in this website clearly show the shocking
animal suffering that takes place every minute of every day in
laboratories across the nation. Vivisectors care little for the
animals they use. For these people, divorced from their natural human
sympathies for suffering, animals are not living, feeling beings but
only a means to an end.
- Three animals die in labs every second of every day in the United States
alone. In the time it takes to read this brochure, another 3,600
animals will be killed in laboratories and classrooms.
- Dogs, cats (some former companion animals), monkeys, mice, horses, pigs and
many, many other species are scalded, poisoned, sliced, drugged,
terrorized, mutilated, electrocuted, buried alive, drowned, starved,
and irradiated. After they are sacrificed (vivisectors' term for
killing ), they are thrown away and more animals obtained for new
experiments.
- Animals are force-fed huge quantities of toxic substances such as bleach, nail
polish, shampoo, and insecticides until they burst, bleed to death or
die of convulsions. Their fur is shaved and caustic substances poured
onto bare skin to measure the degree of blistering. Doctors agree that
these worthless tests do nothing to guarantee safety for people, but
are performed only to protect companies against possible litigation.
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"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas Edison
"During my medical education I found vivisection horrible, barbarous, and above all, unnecessary."
Carl Jung
"Imprisoned, in the name of science, in tiny barren cages. I am haunted by dull, blank eyes staring out on to a world that offers them no hope. The least I can do is speak out for them. They cannot speak for themselves."
Dr. Jane Goodall
What You Can Do
- Buy only products marked “cruelty free” (not tested on animals). Check this web site for a list of companies who do/do not experiment on animals.
- Donate only to charitable organizations that do not test on animals. Many major medical charities spend extensively on animal testing (as of this printing). The above site also lists those charities who do/do not experiment or fund experimentation on animals.
- Consider visiting doctors who use holistic methods of healing, as opposed to those who automatically prescribe drugs or recommend surgery.
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Other Useful Resources
National Anti-Vivisection Society
American Anti-Vivisection Society
The Absurdity of Vivisection
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