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Vivisection

Vivisection is the practice of experimenting on live animals for scientific research or for testing a new product's safety/effectiveness.

Most animals to be tested on are rats and mice; but there are also monkeys, cats, sheep, cows, pigs, rabbits, dogs, and several other types of animals. These tests go far beyond whether the next aspirin knock-off will work on humans or not. Electric shocks are given over and over to test how the body reacts, operations are often un-anesthetized, and sometimes animals are even burnt alive to study how skin reacts at certain temperatures.

"(At the University of Pennsylvania) Head injury research involves partially or fully conscious baboons strapped down with restraints and their heads cemented into a metal helmet, which will be thrust at a 60 degree angle of a force up to 1,000 G's." (there is footage of this in the "Earthlings" film)

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"Twenty years ago, the number of animals dying of tortures through the practice of vivisection was astronomical, estimated at 400,000 per day world wide, and growing at an annual rate of five percent. Today that number is almost beyond comprehension. 19,000 per minute. 10 billion per year."
("Earthlings")

"The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse...We have cured mice of cancer for decades -- and it simply didn't work in humans."
(Dr. Richard Klausner, Director of the National Cancer Institute)

"The reason why I am against animal research is because it doesn't work, it has no scientific value, and every good scientist knows that."
(Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., Head of the Licensing Board for the State of Illinois)

Check these out:
*1,000 Doctors Against Vivisection by Hans Ruesch
*http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/dav.html
*National Anti-Vivisection Society--Navs.org

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