If your dog were dying, do you think that it would be possible to find a cure by .
experimenting on a healthy human? Of coarse not! Yet, we, the public have been led to .
believe that vivisection, more commonly known as animal testing and dissection, is .
responsible for "mericle cures" and "medical breakthroughs." Actually vivisection has .
not cured a single human. The reason is simple, animal experimentation cannot produce .
cures because it is based on a principle that is medically and scientifically false. Every .
species of animal is a different biomechanical and biomedical entity. Non-human animals .
are not only different from humans, but also different from each other. They are .
anatomically, physiologically, imunnoligically, genetically, and histologically different. .
There are things that kill certain animals and don't do a thing to humans and visa versa. .
Aspirin kills cats and penicillin kills guinea pigs. But guinea pigs and monkeys can safely .
eat strychnine (strick 9), one of the deadliest poisons for humans. Also sheep can eat .
arsenic, another deadly poison. The immune systems of animals are different from that of .
humans. Rats live in sewers, dogs drink out of puddles, and cats lick dirt off their bodies .
without getting sick. Scientists try to claim that animals are similar enough to humans to .
justify experimenting on them. Would you breathe a gas very "similar" to oxygen? Or .
would you get a blood transfusion if the blood were very similar, such as monkey blood? .
I don't think anyone in their right mind would. "Similar" in the scientific community has .
no meaning. .
Although people think that vivisection comes up with cures, disease incidence is .
actually increasing. An example is that since 1971 when President Nixon declared "the .
war on cancer" the rate of cancer incidences as of September 1994 went up 18%, and the .
rate of cancer deaths has gone up 7% relative to population growth. Another surprising .