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Victims of Vivisection - End the carnage ! Petition
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Victims of Vivisection - End the carnage !

Target: Mike Johanns, Agriculture Secretary, USDA/APHIS/AC
Sponsor: Anita Solomon
  • Signatures: 2,276
  • Goal: 5,000
  • Deadline: Ongoing...
                                  ANIMALS IN LABORATORIES
                                       UNSEEN THEY SUFFER
                                        UNHEARD THEY CRY
                                      IN AGONY THEY LINGER
                                     IN LONELINESS THEY DIE
                                               Unknown


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 Name State Country I believe vivisection should end because.....
2,280 3:42 pm PDT, May 6 Anonymous Minnesota United States  
2,279 10:08 pm PDT, May 2 sophie szeferowicz   France I strongly support this petition.
2,278 3:04 pm PDT, Apr 30 JAMES SULLIVAN Illinois United States  
2,277 7:32 pm PDT, Apr 25 Nathalie Yates   Canada  
2,276 11:47 am PDT, Apr 25 Carol Loar California United States It is cruel and immoral.
2,275 7:44 am PDT, Apr 25 Debbie Davidsohn California United States  
2,274 7:21 pm PDT, Apr 24 Jenny Vegan   United States Minor Outlying Islands It is unconscionable.
2,273 7:22 am PDT, Apr 24 Isabella Hillmayr   Greece  
2,272 4:22 pm PDT, Apr 23 Morgan Griffith California United States  
2,271 2:19 pm PDT, Apr 23 mandy johnson   United Kingdom  
2,270 8:47 am PDT, Apr 23 Gail Costic Pennsylvania United States  
2,269 6:59 am PDT, Apr 23 Patricia Davis Texas United States This cruel and inhumane practice serves no purpose that could not be achieved by other means.
2,268 5:26 am PDT, Apr 23 Patti Ross New Jersey United States torture and killilng experimentation needs to go away and testing programs come up to date by using scientifically designed methods of study. Funding should stop for feeding this atrocity!
2,267 12:36 am PDT, Apr 23 Anna Hickl   Germany  
2,266 10:55 pm PDT, Apr 22 Ann V   Belgium  
2,265 9:38 pm PDT, Apr 22 Tom Maxwell California United States  
2,264 9:19 pm PDT, Apr 22 Jaylena Greenfield Ohio United States  
2,263 7:14 pm PDT, Apr 22 Dalia Hettfield California United States  
2,262 6:57 pm PDT, Apr 22 Lily Arnold   United Kingdom  
2,261 6:30 pm PDT, Apr 22 Terrah Dawn Mississippi United States  
2,260 5:21 pm PDT, Apr 22 Black Tiger Petersen   Canada  
2,259 4:09 pm PDT, Apr 22 Kathy G   United Kingdom  
2,258 3:57 pm PDT, Apr 22 Diana Martz - Animalspirit Indiana United States IT'S EVIL!!!!!!
2,257 3:41 pm PDT, Apr 22 Kari Dyrdahl Minnesota United States  
2,256 3:20 pm PDT, Apr 22 Glenda Parker   Australia  
2,255 3:15 pm PDT, Apr 22 Sade Go Vegan California United States  
2,254 2:55 pm PDT, Apr 22 Holly Swint Florida United States  
2,253 2:51 pm PDT, Apr 22 carol marshall   United Kingdom We no longer need it anyway
2,252 2:50 pm PDT, Apr 22 Cambridge Brenk Colorado United States  
2,251 2:42 pm PDT, Apr 22 Cher Clarke   Canada  

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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