ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES
- Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer
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| "No amount of testing can make a drug safe because humans react differently from animals." (Lord Platt, President of the Royal College of Physicians, 1957-1962.) |
| "If we halted research using animals today the result would be immediate and beneficial." (The late Dr Robert S. Mendelsohn, Confessions of a Medical Heretic.) |
Dr Moneim A. Fadali, M.D. Surgeon, Diplomate American Board of Surgery, Diplomate to American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Certified with the Canadian Board of Surgeons, Certified with the Royal College of Surgeons, Canada. Twentyfive years on the clinical staff at the University of California. Twentyfive years practising in hospitals in that area... says in Heart Research on Animals (A Critique of Animal Models of Cardiovascular Disease) by Brandon Reines:
"Animal models differ from their human counterparts. Conclusions drawn from animal research when applied to human disease are likely to delay progress, mislead and do harm to the patient. Animal experimentation inevitably leads to human experimentation."
Dr Walter Modell of Cornell University Medical College, whom Time Magazine has defined "one of America's foremost drug experts", wrote in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics:
"If a person suffers from arteriosclerosis that manifests itself through heart cramps, no heart medicine will be able to prevent further trouble, such as renal cirrhosis or a stroke. It takes more strength of character to eat less, exercise, cut down on fat, meat, sugar and salt, than to continue on one's disaster course, and, using animals as the scape-goats, hope for the best.
"Drugs are nothing more than palliatives, usually more harmful than the disease they are supposed to cure: they simulate recovery by suppressing the symptoms, but poison the organism and upset still further its natural balance... When will they realise that there are too many drugs? No fewer than 150,000 preparations are now in use of which seventy-five percent did not exist ten years ago. About 15,000 new mixtures and dosages hit the market each year, while about 12,000 die off... We simply don't have enough diseases to go around."
A strict low-fat vegetarian diet can reverse damage caused by heart disease, according to the findings of an American study. The Lifestyle Heart trial was conducted on 41 heart disease patients by the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California. The study, published in British medical magazine The Lancet found 82 percent of the heart disease patients who adopted such a diet, stopped smoking and attended stress-management classes reversed their coronary artery blockages.
"What we're finding is that heart disease may be completely preventable for most people if they are willing to make changes in their lifestyle."
Study Co-ordinator, Dr Dean Ornish Saud.
The 41 patients, aged between 35 and 75, were recruited from the Pacific Presbyterian Medical Centre and from Moffitt Hospital at the University of California in San Francisco. (Evening Post, Wellington, July 23 1990.)
Dr Salvador Allende, Chile's President, shortly before his assassination in 1973 stated that there are only about two-score medicaments that have a demonstrable therapeutic effectiveness, and that the pharmacopoeia should be reduced accordingly.
(Nouvel Observateur, October 20 1974.)
Brian Inglis wrote in Drugs, Doctors and Disease:
"The figures for animal experiments have continued to rise every year, not because ever better and safer drugs have been coming on the market, but simply because more drugs have been coming on the market. Paradoxically, the increase in tests on animals have reflected the growing recognition of how inadequate the tests have been in the past."
The 1963 Report of the British Pharmaceutical Industry's Expert Committee on Drug Toxicity admitted:
"Information from one animal species cannot be taken as valid for any other. It is not a matter of balancing the cruelty of suffering animals against the gain of humanity spared from suffering, because that is not the choice. Animals die to enable hundreds of new drugs to be marketed annually, but the gain is to industry, not to mankind."
Dr (med.) Herbert Stiller: Specialist in Neurology and Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
Dr (med.) Margot Stiller: Psychologist, Specialist in Neurology and Psychiatry, Psychotherapy:
In Animal Experimentation and Animal Experimenters (A Critique of Medicine based upon Animal Experimentation) the Doctors Stiller write:
"The stereotypical uncritical assertion that there must be experiments upon animals really requires closer examination. When something is asserted with especially striking evidence very often the opposite is the case... In the matter of animal experimentation, it is not at all a question of man's welfare, as is emphasised with such suspicious frequency, but rather of much less noble motives."
The Doctors Stiller go on to describe current medicine based on animal trials as "veterinary medicine" claiming that as many as twentyfive percent of all patients show toxic effects of prescribed medicaments. A. Lwoff, a Nobel Prizewinner at the Pasteur Institute in Paris says that thirty percent of all sickness is caused by medicines, and according to F. Hoff, a specialist for internal diseases, damage caused by attempts at healing through vivisection-based preparations "is the most frequent cause of illness today". I. Illich writes "The general state of health of the population is worst in France with the highest consumption of medicines, and best in Holland with the lowest consumption of medicines." According to statements issued by the World Health Organisation, half the drugs produced by the West German pharmaceutical industry are superfluous to any medicinal-therapeutic function. H.C. Schneider (Die Zukunft Wartet Nicht, Stuttgart, 1971) claims:
"Animal research does not produce sensible medicines, but it brings in the most profit."
From Professor Pietro Croce, M.D. in CIVIS International Foundation Report, Nr. 10, by Hans Ruesch:
"Within ten years, the Italian Ministry of Health has withdrawn from the market 22,621 drugs because of toxic side-effects."
(A Parliamentary Bulletin of August 8 1983.)
In another bulletin, within three years 14,836 "side-effects" or "toxic damages" were reported. All "tested" on animals.
| "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only to serve itself as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals." (Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis.) |
Refer also to Chapter 8 Cancer.