VIVISECTION... LETHAL SCIENCE.......
Vivisection not only tortures and kills millions and millions of animals each year (95% of whom receive no protection under that Animal Welfare Act), it is taking valuable resources from potentially life-saving solutions and pouring money into bad science.
- But how safe, how effective are these animal-modeled advances? Investigating further, we learned that though cardiac-bypass surgery was practiced extensively on animals, when first tried on humans, the patients actually died.
- Penicillin kills guinea pigs and is not effective in rabbits. Were these troubling examples common ones? Or were they exceptions to the rule? Apparently not, we found. Roughly fifteen percent of all hospital admissions are caused by adverse medication reactions. And legal grugs, which made their way to the public via animals, kill approximately 100,000 people per year. That is more than all illegal drugs combined and costs the general public over $136 billion in health care expenses...We had been led to believe that the majority of medical advances had come about as a result of research carried out on animals. Now we wondered was this truth or propaganda?" -c. Ray Greek, Md, and Jean Swindle Greek, DVM
- "Normally, animal experiments not only fail to contribute to the safety of medications, but they even have the opposite effect." -Dr. Kurt Fickentscher, Pharmacological Institute of the University of Bonn, Germany, "Diagnosen", March 1980.
- "What good does it do you to test something [a vaccine] in a monkey? You find five or six years from now that it works in the monkey, and then you test it in humans and you realize that humans behave totally differently from monkeys, so you've wasted five years." -Dr. Mark Feinberg, a leading AIDS researcher.
- "Biomedical research does not need animals any more, but should use computers. It is pointless and even dangerous to continue following the traditional paths, for the difference between man and animals is so great that it mostly leads us into error." -Dr. Luigi Sporieri, contributor to the invention of the cardiopulmonary bypass machine in "La Nazione", Florence, Italy, October 5, 1980.
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