In addition data from unnaturally induced strokes in animals has repeatedly mislead researchers. In the 1980's researchers reported that of 25 compounds that reduced ischemic-stroke damage in animals none proved effective in humans. The diet drugs fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine tested safe in animal laboratories but caused dangerous heart valve abnormalities in humans. Animal experimentation and research have the ability to pose a even greater threat to humans. Polio vaccines grown on monkey kidney cells exposed millions of Americans to simian virus, which causes human cells to undergo malignant transformation and has been found in several human cancers. The General Accounting Office found that 52% of the 198 drugs marketed from 1976 to 1985 that they tested had "serious post-approval risks".
The fact is that animal experimentation is highly unreliable and misleading because different animals react different to different diseases and chemicals. Some of the deadliest poisons to humans are strychnine, arsenic and potassium cyanide, yet guinea pigs and monkeys can safely eat strychnine, sheep can digest enormous quantities of arsenic, and cyanide is harmless to the owl. However, penicillin kills guinea pigs and aspirin kills cats. In addition, since 1971, when president Nixon launched the "war on cancer" and after spending billions of tax dollars and infecting billions of healthy animals with cancerous tumors, the rate of cancer incident has gone up by 18% and cancer deaths have increased by 7%.
The unreliability of vivisection is due mostly to misleading information that has delayed necessary further research. Aside from the undeniable biochemical differences of animals and humans, the highly unnatural environment of the laboratory invariably stresses the animals which effects the entire organism by altering pulse, blood pressure, hormone levels, immunological activities and many other functions.
Vivisection is the act of experimenting on animals. ... Charles Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic, said of vivisection,"It should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection. ... I believe vivisection is wrong because it is very cruel to the animals, experts say it is inaccurate, and there are humane alternatives. First, vivisection is very cruel and painful for the animals. ...
Vivisection is both immoral and unjustifiable - Discus I am strongly against vivisection. ... Supporters of vivisection argue that animals are anaesthetised during procedures. ... The journalist makes her point that vivisection is morally justifiable by saying "Sorry, I think a dying people are more important than dumb animals". ... No leaflet has been able to re-assure me that vivisection is the only way of researching further medicines and procedures that will benefit mankind. I would ask people who are for animal testing- would you offer your family pet for vivisection? ...
Maybe they would if they were presented with the facts about vivisection and the meat industry. ... Let's start with the large amount of animals Vivisection effects. ... The single largest financier and advocate of vivisection would have to be The National Institutes of Health(NIH). ... Every time we pay our taxes we are supporting Vivisection. ... The truth is that Vivisection wastes money and lives that could otherwise be spared. ...
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. ... Although people think that vivisection comes up with cures, disease incidence is actually increasing. ... Even if vivisection worked, which it doesn't, it kills animals and is like torture for them. ...
For decades it has been believed that experimentation through vivisection has provided enormous benefits for human beings. ... Centuries later, Charles Mayo, founder of the highly regarded Mayo Clinic said, "I abhor vivisection. ... Not only are these tests more humane than vivisection, but they are also more accurate, usually faster, and less expensive. ... These are just a few of the alternative methods available today, and they are proving to be more beneficial to mankind than the "traditional" methods of vivisection, not to mention the obvious benefits to the innocent victims of vivisectio...
INTRODUCTION: Voices demanding the rights of animals against vivisection have been louder then ever over the past thirty years. ... Animal rights against vivisection have been expressed in a serious of protest and riots, which have fallen short of their purpose. Although Vivisection has been taking place since the seventeenth century nothing has happened to stop the inequitable situation. ... Alternatives to Animal Testing: Banning vivisection is a topic often debated. ... Vivisection is a cruel act that is costing tax payers hundreds of dollars to help the suffering of innocent...
Despite all of this cruelty, not a single disease has been cured through vivisection in this century. ... Vivisection is the medical term for the practice of experimenting on animals. ... More than 205,000 new drugs are marketed worldwide every year, most after undergoing the most common unreliable test method still in use: animal vivisection. ... Despite all of this cruelty, not a single disease has been cured through vivisection in this century. ... Vivisection is the medical term for the practice of experimenting on animals. ...
Animal testing or vivisection, as it is commonly called, promises to cure ills through animal experimentation. ... Despite all of this cruelty, not a single disease has been cured through vivisection in this century. ... Tragic Consequences More than 205,000 new drugs are marketed worldwide every year, most after undergoing the most common unreliable test method still in use: animal vivisection. ...
Vivisection, the practice of experimenting on animals, began because of religious prohibitions against the dissection of human corpses. When religious leaders finally lifted these prohibitions, it was too late- vivisection was already entrenched in medical and educational institutions. ... Charles Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic explains, "I abhor vivisection. ... I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. ...
