Animal Testing.

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The challenge is enormous, extending beyond medical science to pose ethical dilemmas as well. The more we know about life, the greater our respect for it becomes, and the stronger our reluctance to cause suffering in any creature.

R.D.S

The exploitation of animals by human beings is as deeply entrenched in human culture this century as the exploitation of our fellow human beings was in the last century.

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End vivisection.

Anti-animal testing.

The voice of the voiceless-

A poem.

I am the voice of the voiceless,

Through me the dumb shall speak.

Till the deaf world’s ear be made to hear

The wrongs of the wordless weak.

From street, to cage, from kennel,

From stable and zoo, the wail

Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin

Of the mighty against the frail.

Oh, shame on the mothers of mortals

Who have not stooped to teach

Of the sorrow that has no speech.

And I am the brother’s keeper,

And I shall fight the fight:

And speak the word for beast and bird

Till the world shall set things right.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850-1919

“…Beagles, well known for their mild and affectionate naures, are tortured until they start attacking each other. The ‘scientists’ responsible for this announce that they were ‘conducting a study on juvinle delinquency’”

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British Anti-vivisection Association (BAVA)

There are differences between rodents and humans:

  • Around 3 million animals are used in experiments every year in the UK.
  • Animals are shot, burned, poisoned, irradiated, have limbs broken, electodes put in their brains and infected with diseases.
  • In 1998 2, 659,622 animal experiments causing lasting suffering were conducted in Great Britain.
  • 65% of these took place without anaesthetic
  • Animal testing DOES No save human lives.

  • “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”
  • Medical research is “immoral even if it’s essential.”
  • Even if ...

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