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We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:

Victims of Vivisection - End the carnage !

Target: Mike Johanns, Agriculture Secretary, USDA/APHIS/AC
Sponsor: Anita Solomon
  • Signatures: 2,702
  • Goal: 10,000
  • Deadline: Ongoing...
                                  ANIMALS IN LABORATORIES
                                       UNSEEN THEY SUFFER
                                        UNHEARD THEY CRY
                                      IN AGONY THEY LINGER
                                     IN LONELINESS THEY DIE
                                               Unknown

Since this petition was first published, there has been a change in the Secretary of Agriculture.  This petition will now be forwarded to: Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer
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labdogAs many as 115 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every year.
Much of the experimentation-including pumping chemicals into rats' stomachs, hacking muscle tissue from dogs' thighs, and putting baby monkeys in isolation chambers far from their mothers-is paid for by you, the American taxpayer and consumer. 
What have we learned from all of this suffering? That animal research is inherently unethical, inevitably wasteful, and wholly unreliable. The U.S. squanders approximately $18 billion per year on animal experiments, even though alternatives are less expensive and can be used repeatedly.




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Number Date Prefix Name State Country I believe vivisection should end because.....
2,707 11:25 am PDT, Jul 4 Ms. Bobbi Ostrander Wisconsin United States It is cruel and wrong. How would you like something like that done to you?Animals have fellings just like we do.
2,706 11:06 am PDT, Jul 4 Ms. Anonymous   France  
2,705 6:13 am PDT, Jul 4   Gili Kahana   Israel  
2,704 8:54 am PDT, Jun 30 Ms. katira tejeda Massachusetts United States  
2,703 6:08 am PDT, Jun 29 Mrs. Anonymous   Finland  
2,702 12:15 pm PDT, Jun 28 Mrs. Savannah Smith   Germany THERE IS NO BIGGER BEAST THAN MAN!!!
2,701 12:27 am PDT, Jun 28   gili kahana   Israel  
2,700 11:41 pm PDT, Jun 23 Ms. Daile O'Connor New Jersey United States  
2,699 2:20 am PDT, Jun 20 Mrs. Anna Andreeva   Ukraine it's terrible! stop it now!!!
2,698 8:57 am PDT, Jun 19 Ms. Denisszia Gerocz   Romania  
2,697 6:42 am PDT, Jun 18 Ms. Andrea Zameit   Germany  
2,696 3:45 am PDT, Jun 18 Ms. Zuzanna Pa³czyńska   Poland  
2,695 10:52 am PDT, Jun 17 Mrs. Anonymous   United Kingdom  
2,694 4:03 pm PDT, Jun 11 Mrs. Feona Willow California United States  
2,693 5:03 am PDT, Jun 11 Mrs. Susanna von Dewitz   Germany  
2,692 5:03 am PDT, Jun 8 Mr. Nick Rathgeber   Canada  
2,691 8:13 pm PDT, Jun 7 Ms. Angie Cabalero   Argentina  
2,690 7:07 pm PDT, Jun 7 Mr. Carlo Bengiovanni California United States  
2,689 11:00 am PDT, Jun 7 Mrs. Lee Ann DeMars Pennsylvania United States Animals were put here to share our planet. We have done enough damage to them! They are here for a reason, and we should be taking care of them, not destroying them.
2,688 10:12 am PDT, Jun 7 Mr. gabriele tarsia incuria   Italy because it's a horrible and senseless
2,687 8:15 am PDT, Jun 7   Anonymous   Greece  
2,686 7:17 am PDT, Jun 7   Lotan Sharon   Israel  
2,685 5:52 am PDT, Jun 7 Ms. christina skoutaridou   Greece because what happens there is sick
2,684 4:57 am PDT, Jun 7   Alicia Franco   Denmark  
2,683 4:03 am PDT, Jun 7   Anonymous   Spain NO MAS Vivisection .... STOP animal cruelty .....
2,682 3:36 am PDT, Jun 7 Mrs. linda BRUNO   France Animals are not objects. They are living beings. They suffer just like human beings. It's time to put an end to this torture.
2,681 3:16 am PDT, Jun 7 Ms. Corinne van den Heuvel   United Kingdom  
2,680 3:01 am PDT, Jun 7 Ms. Maricel C. de Jesus   Philippines  
2,679 2:49 am PDT, Jun 7 Mrs. lampropoulou theodora   Greece  
2,678 2:10 am PDT, Jun 7   DoulaverI Aglaia   Greece we have no right to torture them...they feel pain as much as we do, they have feelings. We should respect them as we should respect every kind of living creature. They respect us, why cant we do the same??????....Unfortunatelly, we, humans, are not civilized....Such kind of treatment to animals better fits to canibals!!! STOOOOOOOOOOP THIS!!!!! BE HUMANS, NOT CANIBALS
2,677 2:02 am PDT, Jun 7   polly pagan   United Kingdom it is a futile and barbaric practice.it must stop now
2,676 1:54 am PDT, Jun 7   Robyn Maynard   Australia It is no longer needed in this day and age. We know as much as we need to know, stop torturinig innocent animals!!!
2,675 1:43 am PDT, Jun 7 Ms. Jeanette Loos   Denmark  
2,674 1:40 am PDT, Jun 7   Spiro Apostolou   Greece IT MUST END!THAT IS WHY.WOULD THE VIVISECTORS LIKE TO BE IN THE PLACE OF THEIR VICTIMS?I DOUBT.
2,672 1:28 am PDT, Jun 7   Vicky Protopapa   Greece it is cruel ,useless and inhumane.There are better alternatives non-animal ones.
2,671 1:23 am PDT, Jun 7   Kim Larsen Florida United States Animals are living and feeling beings.
2,670 1:20 am PDT, Jun 7 Mr. Ian Mackay   United Kingdom animals have feelings and suffer at the hands of so called humans when it is totally uncalled for, people should start to know that cruelty towards animals is not acceptable
2,669 1:13 am PDT, Jun 7 Mr. DIMITRIOS GARBIS   Greece is barbaric and useless,sientist has found ways to testing with medicins, cosmetics and ctr, without harming innocent creatures. Monney isnt averything in this word don't suport something that you know is wrong. Thank you
2,668 1:11 am PDT, Jun 7 Mrs. Geraldine Hart   United Kingdom The animals are amde to suffer for what? cosmetics,additives, and what else? I suggest there are thousands of killers and rapists that are in prison that ar a totall drain on society, so why not use those people to do the experiements on,that would empty the prisons and save tax payers money
2,667 1:08 am PDT, Jun 7 Ms. Airian Lithe   Greece  
2,666 12:58 am PDT, Jun 7   dominique DAVID   France  
2,665 12:44 am PDT, Jun 7   Yannis Karaouzas   Greece  
2,664 10:02 pm PDT, Jun 6 Mrs. Tina Nelson Minnesota United States  
2,663 9:41 pm PDT, Jun 6   Nancy Vazquez Indiana United States  
2,662 9:13 pm PDT, Jun 6   Dominika Kierecka   Canada  
2,661 8:47 pm PDT, Jun 6 Dr. Carlos Hernandez Puerto Rico United States of all the reasons already stated in the different messages
2,660 8:25 pm PDT, Jun 6 Ms. Misty Ferguson California United States It's old thinking and has been done before, also there is software out no to use for resaerch proposes.
2,659 8:06 pm PDT, Jun 6   Jamie Downey Colorado United States This is absolutely DISGUSTING and BARBARIC! The American taxpayer is funding horrible, extreme pain and suffering experiments before these innocent animals endure a horrific, senseless death! How do these evil humans live with themselves??? Don't they know they will burn in HELL for the suffering and carnage they have caused?? What is wrong with the human species that they feel entitled to torture animals???
2,658 8:04 pm PDT, Jun 6 Ms. Carole Clifford Texas United States it's cruel and inhumane and should be stopped immediately!!!!
2,657 7:41 pm PDT, Jun 6 Ms. popi demetriadou   Cyprus stop this cruetly and madness to all animals NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2,656 7:36 pm PDT, Jun 6 Ms. Margaret Ross New York United States it's brutal, indescribably cruel, useless, senseless, only done for MONEY, and barbaric. Makes me ashamed to be a human. Shame on you all who are capable of this.
2,655 7:31 pm PDT, Jun 6 Ms. Stacey Rakic Larson Colorado United States Vivisection is unreliable and causes the unnecessary and torturous suffering of innocent, sentient beings. This needs to cease to save both animals and humans. Animals are not reliable or safe models for humans, and any other thought is illogical.
2,654 7:31 pm PDT, Jun 6   Donna Diduch Washington United States  
2,653 7:24 pm PDT, Jun 6 Ms. Debby Bradford Florida United States our country should not be so barbaric as to torture animals for profits. There are better, more humane ways to get results. Stop the torture!
2,652 7:15 pm PDT, Jun 6 Mrs. Pat Neskavich Michigan United States  
2,651 7:02 pm PDT, Jun 6   Anonymous   Trinidad And Tobago cruelty against animals is wrong

Victims of Vivisection - End the carnage !

Experimenters force-feed chemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries on them, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines, and much more. Think of what it would be like to endure this and then be dumped back into a cage, usually without any painkillers.  Video footage from inside laboratories shows that animals cower in fear every time someone walks by their cages. They don't know if they will be dragged from their prison cells for an injection, blood withdrawal, a painful procedure or surgery, or death. Often animals see other animals killed right in front of them.


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ost people believe that experiments on animals are necessary for medicine and science to progress. This is not the case! The belief that we must experiment on animals is being challenged by a growing number of physicians and scientists who are utilizing many research methods that do not harm or kill animals. Physicians and scientists also see the negative consequences of using one species to provide information about another species; often the results of animal experiments are misleading or even harmful to humans. 


Increasing numbers of scientists and clinicians are challenging animal experimentation on scientific grounds. (1-3) Considerable evidence demonstrates that animal experimentation is inefficient and unreliable, while newly developed methodologies are more valid and less expensive than animal studies.


Vivisection is self-perpetuating. Scientists' salaries and professional status are often tied to grants, and a critical element of success in grant applications is proof of prior experience and expertise.


Vivisection is lucrative. It’s traditionally respected place in modern medicine results in secure financial support, which is often an integral component of a university's budget. Many medical centers receive tens of millions of dollars annually in direct grants for animal research, and tens of millions more for overhead costs that are supposedly related to that research. Since these medical centers depend on this overhead for much of their administrative costs, construction, and building maintenance, they perpetuate vivisection by praising it in the media and to legislators.  Animal researchers' ethical defense of the practice has been superficial and self-serving.


The general public, which cares about animal welfare, has been led to believe that animals rarely suffer in laboratories. Animal researchers often cite U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics (derived from researchers themselves) that only 6 to 8 percent of animals used in vivisection experience pain unrelieved by anesthesia or analgesia.(174)
Evidence indicates, however, that many animal researchers fail to acknowledge - or even perceive - animal pain and suffering.


The tens of millions of animals used and killed each year in American laboratories generally suffer enormously, often from fear and physical pain, nearly always from the deprivation inflicted by their confinement, which denies their most basic psychological and physical needs. 


Conclusion
    
The value of animal experimentation has been grossly exaggerated by those with a vested economic interest in its preservation. Because animal experimentation focuses on artificially created pathology, involves confounding variables, and is undermined by differences in human and nonhuman anatomy, physiology, and pathology, it is an inherently unsound method to investigate human disease processes. Billions of dollars invested annually in animal research would be put to much more efficient, effective, and humane use if redirected to clinical and epidemiological research and public health programs.


Original source:  'The Absurdity of Vivisection' http://vivisection-absurd.org.uk/menu.html
Sources: The Vivisection Industry http://www.health.org.nz/vivind.html        
              LCA Vivisection Campaign http://www.lcanimal.org/cmpgn/cmpgn_016.htm
            American Anti-Vivisection Society http://www.aavs.org/home.html
Vivisection is Scientific Fraud - We are all Victims http://www.bava.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/


LET’S PUT AN END TO THIS SENSELESS TORTURE ONCE  AND FOR ALL!


“I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.” -Dr. Charles Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic 

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