Letter to an MP Concerning Vivisection

There are drugs that have been ‘thoroughly tested’ on animals and found safe for them, yet have injured and killed people. There are also treatments that have helped humans that were delayed or almost overlooked because they didn't work on animals in the laboratory. Yet the scientific community, however, continues to assure us that vivisection is responsible for the medical treatments we use today and for the breakthroughs of tomorrow.

Many researchers contend that there are no alternatives for animals in research and testing. While this statement is mostly true, it implies that animal experiments are useful and therefore worth replacing. Animal experiments are not science and should be abolished. The only replacement is real science, which means that the truly scientific experiments, which will replace animal experiments, will be totally different conceptually, and therefore they cannot even be compared to the phoney animal experiments.

Animal research is a government-sponsored school of violence, an endless source of profits and new diseases, the modern barbarity palmed-off as science through the venality of the mass media and industry-beholden politicians. I therefore feel very strongly about this subject and feel that animal experimentation should be banned, as it is, without doubt, cruelty towards animals and other means of experimentation should be used or indeed found.

I thank you for taking your time to read my views and hope you have come to understand them.

Yours Sincerely

Matthew Fry