It
isn't WHEN will vivisection end?
but HOW will you end it?
It
begins with the right tools.
In
our feature series, anti-vivisection activist
Michael Budkie shares his extensive knowledge
to help you effectively fight vivisection.
YOU
CHOOSE: This feature contains
both benign and graphic images of animals in laboratories;
you may view graphic images by moving your mouse over
the benign photos throughout the article. Otherwise,
you won't see them.
Links
to specific sections of our nine-page feature are listed
below for your convenience. Also listed toward the bottom
of this page are Resources
to other web sites for information, essays, images,
and related commentary.
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Animal
experimentation is a huge issue. Even the word we
use to discuss it is large — vivisection. And
if you ask someone outside the animal protection
movement what this word means they probably won't
know. This lack of knowledge and understanding,
this unfamiliarity and hiddeness are the things
that characterize the experimentation issue most
accurately — even to many people inside the
animal protection movement. [MORE]
[TOP]
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- Frankenstein
Lives: The Assault on Primates
- Primate
experimentation is a growing crisis in the United
States. Though the incompleteness of USDA reporting
leaves us without truly exact numbers, a safe estimate
would put the annual experimental toll for primates
at 60,000 a year in the United States alone, with
potentially another 10,000 primates kept in laboratories
for breeding and conditioning. [MORE]
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- Through
the Bars of a Cage: The View from Inside a Laboratory
- What
is it like inside an animal laboratory?
Most
people never know. During my education as an Animal
Health Technician, I spent one school year inside
the laboratories of the University of Cincinnati.
The staff of the university acted as though this was
a normal work place, not a facility where thousands
of animals died every year. [MORE]
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- War
Games: Military Animal Research
- Animal
experimentation is a difficult issue to confront.
Estimates put the annual death toll due to experimentation
near 20,000,000 per year in the U.S. There are almost
as many different kinds of experimentation as there
are laboratories. Animals are dying in projects involving
drug addiction, brain mapping, infectious diseases,
and many other areas of “scientific curiosity”
every minute of every day. [MORE]
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- Granting
Wishes: The Truth Behind Why We Vivisect Animals
- Why
does animal experimentation continue when it is such
a volatile issue? You
would think that the facilities which currently perform
animal testing would rather not see their names in
the news connected with protests, animal abuse, horrific
pictures, and allegations of scientific fraud. Considering
the down side to animal experimentation, why do universities,
private foundations, and other entities continue to
perform animal experiments? [MORE]
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RESOURCES
Organizations
AnimaLinks:
Research on Animals
(includes alternatives, vaccine information,
international organizations, and opposing viewpoints)
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Books
& Photos
Our
Recommended Reading and Viewing List,
along with short biographies, all currently available
Animal
Research Takes Lives:
Humans and Animals Both Suffer
by Bette Overell — Online Book
At
Our Hands: A Pictorial
of Animal Exploitation
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Animal
Research Information
Animal Research
Factsheets
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