ANTI-VIVISECTION - ANIMAL TESTING
_I am not
interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are
profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts
upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is
to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
~ Twain, Mark |
Ask the
experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is:
'Because the animals are like us.' Ask the experimenters why it is
morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the
animals are not like us.' Animal experimentation rests on a logical
contradiction.
~ Magel, Dr. Charles R._ |
_The Anti-Vivisector
does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take
chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by
criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods.
He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the
leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or
American tourists.
~ Shaw, George Bernard |
_...we
sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective
metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It
may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us
hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of
anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species--preference for man
simply because we are men--is not sentiment, then what is?
~ Lewis, C. S. |
_Every year
tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of
cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test
results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of
the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries
are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.
~ Harrelson, Woody |
_I had bought
two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to
each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a
[heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for
the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no
significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his
companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other
chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a
deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such
sensitive creatures.
~ Barnard, Dr. Christian |
If you don't
like my opinions leave. But just remember, the animals can’t leave the
cages that hold them. They are captive and suffering. As you cozy into
your bed tonight, try to imagine the pain and the suffering that they
endure day after day and night after night. Next time you get some soap
in your eyes, try to imagine that pain for 3 or 4 days at a time. Next
time you have a stomach ache, try to imagine liquid plumber being poured
down your throat till you puke so much blood that you bleed to death.
Next time you bump your head, try to imagine being a monkey and getting
a steel plate smashed into your skull at 50 miles per hour. Then, only
then should you feel compelled to tell me that I’m wrong about my
opinions. For all these things have happened in the name of science.
They continue in abundance till this day.
~ Rockett, Ricki_ |
_The medical
argument for animal testing doesn’t stand up. Even if it did, I don’t
think we should kill other species. We think we’re so much better; I’m
not sure we are. I tell people, "We’ve beaten into submission every
animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever
battle is going on between the species. Couldn’t we be generous? I
really do think it’s time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on
them. I think we’ve got to show that we’re kind.
~ McCartney, Paul & Linda |
Vivisection
is the blackest of all the black crimes that man is at present
committing against God and His fair creation. It ill becomes us to
invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if
we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow
creatures.
~ Gandhi, Mahatma_ |
_By and large
students are taught that it is ethically acceptable to perpetrate, in
the name of science, what from the point of view of the animals would
certainly qualify as torture. By the time [the students] arrive in the
labs they have been programmed to accept the suffering around them.
~ Goodall, Dr. Jane |
Doctors who
speak out in favour of vivisection do not deserve any recognition in
society, all the more so since their brutality is apparent not only
during such experiments, but also in their practical medical lives. They
are mostly men who stop at nothing in order to satisfy their ruthless
and unfeeling lust for honours and gain.
~ Knecht, Hugo_ |
Results from
animal tests are not transferable between species, and therefore cannot
guarantee product safety for humans...In reality these tests do not
provide protection for consumers from unsafe products, but rather they
are used to protect corporations from legal liability.
~Gundersheimer, Herbert_ |
The cruel
experimenter cannot be allowed to have it both ways. He cannot, in the
same breath, defend the scientific validity of vivisection on the
grounds of the physic similarities between man and the other animals,
and then defend the morality of vivisection on the grounds that men and
animals are physically different. The only logical alternatives for him
are to admit he is either pre-Darwinian or immoral.
~ Ryder, Richard D._ |
What the
factory farmers emphasize is that animals are different from humans: we
can’t, we are told, judge their reactions by our own, because they don’t
have human feelings. But no one in his senses ever supposed they did.
Anyone acquainted with animals can guess pretty well that they have less
intellect and memory than humans, and live closer to their instincts.
But the reasonable conclusion to draw from this is the very opposite of
the one the factory farmers try to force upon us. In all probability,
animals feel more sharply than we do any restrictions on such
instinctual promptings as the need, which we share with them, to wander
around and stretch one’s legs every now and then; and terror or distress
suffered by an animal is never, as sometimes in us, softened by
intellectual comprehension of the circumstances.
~Brophy, Brigid_ |
Your good
article about causing serious questions when medical results on men
studies are applied to women, opened my eyes: If men and women are so
different, how in the world can scientists reach any valid conclusions
from the myriad projects and experiments... on different species??? It
makes all the animal testing/experimentation pretty futile!
~Bernhart, Mrs. Milton_ |
Judge (in
the same way as you would judge your own) the behaviour of a dog who has
lost his master, who has searched for him in the road barking miserably,
who has come back to the house restless and anxious, who has run
upstairs and down, from room to room, and who has found the beloved
master at last in his study, and then shown his joy by barks, bounds and
caresses. There are some barbarians who will take this dog, that so
greatly excels man in capacity for friendship, who will nail him to a
table, and dissect him alive, in order to show you his veins and nerves.
And what you then discover in him are all the same organs of sensation
that you have in yourself. Answer me, mechanist, has Nature arranged all
the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel?
Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?
~ Voltaire_ |