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| VIV I SEC TION |
| n. (fr. Latin vivus, living + sectio, cutting) the drugging, burning, blinding, infecting, shocking, addicting, shooting, freezing, and surgical mutilation of healthy animals. |
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Thousands of physicians condemn vivisection, citing that it is often done merely for profit.
Animal research has many dangerous flaws. More and more physicians regard it as outmoded, harmful and wasteful of funds needed for prevention and non-animal research. Animal dealers, universities and drug companies all profit greatly. Many dangerous drugs and products are marketed after testing "safe" on animals. Manufacturers are then protected from legal liability by these same unreliable tests. |
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Vivisection is forcefully imposed on many young scientists.
Senior researchers trained only in vivisection usually emphasize it to the exclusion of other methods. Out of habit and self-justification, they initiate students into the belief system of vivisection, requiring them to conduct dissection and vivisection to graduate. |
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There are many effective non-animal research methods.
These include high-tech clinical studies, cell and tissue testing, population studies (epidemiology), computer modeling, and more. But because the vivisection industry dominates federal health agencies, these valuable technologies receive little support and are prevented from replacing outmoded animal methods. |
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| Fact: |
In the one minute it took you to read this flyer, at least sixty animals died in U.S. laboratories. |
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| Physicians Speak Out |
"Vested interest, not sound scientific principle, have helped perpetuate the myth that animal research has been indispensable to medical advances. The biomedical community's strident effort to discredit the millions of Americans involved in the animal protection movement is a propaganda campaign worthy of the McCarthy era."
Kenneth P. Stoller, M.D. |
"Growing numbers of professionals like myself are acting to oppose vivisection. I encourage people to fight the dangerous dead end of animal experimentation."
Murry J. Cohen, M.D. |
"The animal research industry is sucking up precious funds that should be used to really help people get healthy."
Michael Klaper, M.D. |
"The animal rights movement is placing increasing pressure on the research community to seek alternatives to animal experiments. I am one of thousands of physicians who believe that this is a healthy process which will lead to responsible research, advance the cause of public health, and restore to medicine a respect for all living things."
David C. Fabrey, M.D. |
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For additional information on the subject of vivisection and what you can do to end its cruelty and waste, contact:
In Defense of Animals
131 Camino Alto
Mill Valley, CA 94941
(415) 388-9641
ida@idausa.org
www.idausa.org
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