ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES
- Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer
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Throughout this work the author has been irritatingly confined to rebutting the false claim that Animal Research Saves Lives. It is appropriate at conclusion to present briefly the rationale upon which opposition to vivisection on the medical and scientific premise is founded, as distinct from the self-evident ethical and moral considerations, which, having been debated for a hundred years, the vivisectors can live with, even welcome, as they represent not the slightest threat. Abolition on scientific grounds is being subscribed to by increasing numbers of honest organisations which have avoided corruption by the pro-vivisection establishment, and by thousands of individuals who are becoming conversant with the facts, instead of believing implicitly the brain-washing and profit-motivated propaganda about the value of vivisection which we are spoon-fed every day of our lives.
The United Kingdom is a bastion of vivisection, held firmly in the grasp of the biomedical community. Apart from Doctors in Britain Against Animal Experiments, and the two groups listed under Recommended Societies, the author is not aware of a single organisation practising abolitionist principles in that country. Vibrant and powerful abolitionist groups however operate strongly in the U.S.A., Canada, Europe and Australia. The N.Z. Anti-Vivisection Society, founded by the author in 1978, is the only abolitionist group in New Zealand and was, for that reason, the prime target of ARSL, the booklet's sole intent being to destroy the Society or prevent its growth. The absence of other abolitionist groups is no criticism of the sincerity of their members, but a reflection of the inevitable result of their negligence to ensure that the abolitionist policies and objectives, which are widely and heatedly professed in principle are carried out in practice. A state which can only be achieved by rigid selection and constant surveillance of their leaders, representatives and spokespersons. For example in New Zealand one such leader whilst making vociferous claims to the abolitionist principle on the one hand equally vociferously opposed the NZAVS Petition to Abolish Vivisection with the other, thus sabotaging the Petition from being considered by politicians.
The following is a brief summary of the abolitionist's case supplied by doctors and scientists fighting for abolition in their various fields of expertise. It is transcribed from the material of Students United Protesting Research on Sentient Subjects, a vibrant U.S. organisation of thousands campaigning across America under leadership of Javier Burgos, producer of the breakthrough video Hidden Crimes. It should be read in conjunction with Scientific Anti-Vivisectionism.
THE LIE THAT IS KILLING US
Animal experimentation, also known as vivisection, is directly responsible for the rampant growth of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, birth defects, arthritis, muscular dystrophy, leukemia, all kinds of mental diseases, and an endless list of many other old afflictions as well as scores of new ones, such as Alzheimer's disease and AIDS. These diseases are causing the most massive, systematic and wide-spread destruction of human health ever known. The reason is fundamental: TODAY'S RESEARCH IS BASED ALMOST ENTIRELY ON ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION, WHICH IS A MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FRAUD. It is impossible to re-create a naturally-occurring disease in a healthy animal simply because once it is "recreated", it is no longer the original, natural disease. The predictable result of looking at artificially diseased animals is that the data obtained is not applicable to man and thus is tragically misleading. This is the reason why no disease has been cured in the 20th century except for the control of infectious diseases, which was accomplished thanks to nutrition, hygiene, and public sanitation. Consequently all the old diseases along with the new ones are killing you and your family and friends.
THE LIE THAT IS COSTING HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
There is no money to be made from healthy people. This is why the medical and research establishments are not in the least interested in prevention (practically all diseases are preventable). The criminal refusal to remove the KNOWN cases of so many human ailments guarantees a situation where practically everyone is sick or will eventually get sick (the flat refusal to educate people about the vital need to adopt a vegetarian diet is a prime example). Once millions upon millions of people are sick and dying and pronounced "in need" of drugs, tests, radiation, surgeries, transplants, and all kinds of medical attention and intervention, the expenditures connected with "health care" skyrocket accordingly. As the New Zealand Health Service is in chaos millions of dollars are being spent on "sickness care". Astronomical expenditures (which have made countless doctors, surgeons, pharmaceutical companies, and all kinds of institutions rich) have broken the financial back of the country. It is clear that prevention, and not "health care reform", is the real cure.
THE LIE THAT TORTURES BILLIONS OF ANIMALS
In New Zealand alone approximately 300,000 animals are reported done to death in vivisection laboratories every year. Since, as explained in Chapter 21, Drugs and the Law, Section 4, statistics and monitorings etc are left to vivisectors, the figures are generally meaningless (in addition the invalidity of vivisection makes numbers irrelevant). This vivisection is carried out and protected by the law, in colleges and universities, hospitals, private institutions, veterinary schools and agricultural establishments. To this end tidy businesses operate from the breeding of animals for vivisection and the sale of animals from pounds, slaughter houses, greyhound racing clubs and other sources. In many countries animals are used by the military to test weapons, they are shot into space, poisoned to death with chemicals and used as experimental car-crash victims. Because of the strong link between the U.S. National Institute of Health in Washington D.C., and vivisection in New Zealand it is appropriate to inform readers that the 1991 budget of the NIH, the largest source of funding for vivisectors in the world, was U.S. 8.6 million dollars. Because of AIDS, the new gold-mine for the biomedical establishment, billions of dollars are being poured into the pockets of the vivisectors who are enjoying a heyday of "employment" regardless of a world recession.
THE LIE THAT IS DESTROYING THE PLANET
Not only is our health and economy being systematically destroyed by the vivisection mentality, but so is our environment. The massive production and stubborn continuance of the use of pesticides and countless other chemicals the safety of which are all established on incorrect animal tests in order to produce a legal alibi, is responsible for the massive and often irreversible pollution of our lands, rivers, oceans, food and water supplies, and the destruction of the Earth's protective ozone layer, and many other threats that are critically endangering the survival of all life on the planet.
THE LIE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF NUCLEAR ARMS
Horrifying chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, possessed by an ever-increasing number of countries, were developed by vivisectors and "tested" on animals the same way a drug, detergent, oven-cleaner or lip-stick is "tested" on animals. Conventional weapons of all kinds were created in vivisection laboratories, where animals are routinely used as surrogates for man in warlike situations. (The billions of animals used in warfare and space experiments are kept secret and never counted in the statistics.)
THE LIE THAT SABOTAGES REAL SOLUTIONS TO HEALTH: BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL
Public money can always be found to fund endless numbers of grotesque and useless experiments where perfectly healthy animals are turned into drug addicts, alcoholics and victims of "simulated" disease, which bear no resemblance to spontaneous disease occurring in human beings. Vast amounts of money goes unopposed down the drain, "creating" arthritis in sheep, undertaking trials in "deaf" sheep, planning tests of the dreaded myxamotosis on kiwis and other ridiculous procedures which are advertised daily in the popular press, none of which are valid, but all of which create work for the vivisectors and others in the industry. Whilst there are no profits in prevention there are vast fortunes to be made out of sick people. For example refer Chapter 8 Cancer, which reveals the National Cancer Institute's recommendation of a 30 percent fat diet, knowing full well that to prevent cancer fat intake must be reduced to the extremely low levels of 15 percent found in China, Japan and other countries which enjoy low cancer rates... and that the diet must be vegetarian. Another example is the absolute determination to carry out lucrative vaccination programmes, for instance against hepatitis, which is rife in the children of New Zealand's central North Island, instead of cleaning up the waterways of the region which are heavily polluted with dangerous toxic by-products pouring into them from the paper mills.