ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES
- Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer
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In Great Britain alone in 1983 there were 573 deaths from the prescribing of arthritis drugs: Opren, Tanderil, Butazolidin (several deaths in New Zealand). These drugs were tested extensively on animals. Monkeys, dogs, rats, mice, forcefed (LD50) with the drugs after being injected with painful chemicals to study "writhing" and drug response. As with Thalidomide these tests failed to show how deadly Opren would be to humans. These cruel tests reportedly being carried out in Boots laboratories.
(Source: Liberator, Dominion, January 5 1984.)
Eli Lilly & Co. showed a 17 percent increase in worldwide pharmaceutical sales in 1981. A big part of that increase was due to sales of their new anti-arthritis drug Opren (Benoxaprofen). This has had serious side-effects resulting in the deaths of 61 people and 3,000 seriously ill. It was agreed that the symptoms experienced with humans could never have been detected in animals. (Pharmaceutical Journal, February 27 1982.) Following fast on the footsteps of Opren, another killer drug has been removed from the market: Osmosin - for treating arthritis. Reportedly (Liberator) half a million prescriptions have been issued since Christmas 1983 with drastic side effects.
Hip and knee replacement do not cure arthritis and the "simulated" arthritis artificially being induced in animals by N.Z. vivisectors bears no resemblance to the spontaneous arthritis which develops naturally over a period of time in the human being due to lack of exercise, overeating, and a host of human circumstances. Arthritic sufferers in their wheelchairs can be suffering the dire result of consumption of dangerous and ineffective prescriptions, which, based on wrong principle and methodology, worsen the condition. Arthritis, in humans can also be hereditary.
The principal cause of arthritis is faulty diet. Today's food, lacking in nutrients due to chemical and pesticide residues leaves us with undernourished bodies full of uric acid which is carried around in the blood until it eventually deposits between the joints, on the bones, or in the muscles. Doctors are becoming increasingly alarmed at the number of babies being born with uric acid in their blood inherited from arthritic mothers.
Anti-inflammatory drugs which are easily obtained bring only temporary relief. These drugs, like the uric acid, destroy the membrane between the bone joints. As the patient becomes immune, in great pain they are administered even stronger drugs until their bodies are poisoned by legal and lethal prescriptions of dangerous toxic chemicals which worsen the arthritis condition. Today's hospitals are full of patients who are the victims of drug prescription and addiction. Thousands of deaths have resulted from arthritis drugs which are quietly removed from the market after doing their dirty work.
The patient who can no longer get relief from drugs for the increasing pain of arthritis is then given a hip or knee joint replacement. Whilst on the waiting list for these operations they are pumped with further drugs which leads to serious doctor-induced disease as the drugs drain the body of nutrition. The new hip or knee joint does not however remove the uric acid which causes the pain, and eventually, sooner or later, FURTHER hip or knee joint replacements take place in conjunction with the ongoing drug treatment.
Joint replacements are not the answer for the sufferer of arthritis. Money should be spent on education and prevention, the removal of uric acid from the system through the many natural methods available, and the removal of drugs which are more dangerous than the disease. But the publishers of Animal Research Saves Lives are aware that there is no money in prevention and health... whereas vivisection and illhealth is an extremely lucrative industry.
Opren, Tanderil, Butazolidin, Closic, Zomax, Flenac, Eraldin, Ibufenac, Flosint and Suprol, are arthritis drugs given to hundreds of millions of people worldwide after being declared safe by animal testing. All were subsequently removed from the market as "dangerous" after causing many deaths.
Around the world vivisectors "studying arthritis" are injecting material into the muscles and joints of animals and injuring them traumatically in a senseless method based on wrong principle. On page 336 of Slaughter of the Innocent, Hans Ruesch explains that cartilage can be removed from human accident victims under anaesthetic and kept alive for weeks during which its reactions to various drugs can be observed.
Prof. Andrew Passebecq, M.D., N.D., D.Psy., of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, 13th District, said at the International League of Doctors Against Vivisection Conference of June 19 1989 in Paris, after he had been elected as President of ILDAV:
"Today's orthodox medicine and suppressive surgery don't understand the purpose of disease and therefore don't know how to treat it. Instead of vital hygiene, which aims at preservation or reconstruction of health by natural means and shuns all use of degrading, destructive chemicals, today's medical students are only taught to manipulate poisons and mutilate bodies. We demand that this be changed."
(Hans Ruesch, One Thousand Doctors (and many more) Against Vivisection.)
Evidence abounds that with determination and will-power even the most cruelly afflicted arthritis sufferers can be cured by natural means. The following book is highly commended to the arthritis sufferer:
Curing Arthritis (The Drug Free Way)
by Margaret Hills, S.R.N.
Order from: Sheldon Press
Margaret Hills, S.R.N., trained at St Stephen's Hospital, London. She developed osteo and rheumatoid arthritis as a young woman, but went on to finish her nurse's training, marry, have eight children and pursue a long career as an industrial nurse. She developed her own method of natural treatment and, in 1982, opened a clinic for arthritics in Coventry. The clinic attracts patients from all over the world.
Louise Wallis, of the National Anti-Vivisection Society, answered a SmithKline Beecham advertisement headed: "An Important Role Working With Animals". The firm wanted a person who "enjoys contact with animals of all kinds". She landed the job and commenced working as a laboratory technician in an undercover investigation which took seven months. It involved her witnessing at first hand the horrific and degrading procedures taking place as a daily routine at two British laboratories. One was the SmithKline Beecham toxicology unit in Stock, Essex, where this firm which fakes interest in alleviating suffering, poisons friendly beagle dogs to death, the other a laboratory at the London Medical School at St Bartholomew's Hospital where batteries of animals are exposed to whole-body radiation without anaesthesia as a daily routine (funded by the Cancer Research Campaign) and others suffer and die in indescribably cruel and barbaric multiple sclerosis and arthritis experiments which have been established in the medical journals as medically invalid because of species difference.
Thus on April 11 1991 Wallis commenced observing the force feeding of dogs and rodents with drugs, to long and lingering death, the whole-body irradiation of animals, and the crippling and destruction of healthy rats and mice in arthritis research. In the latter experiments she reports that thousands of animals have been used in "excruciating painful experiments" in the attempt to create an animal model of arthritis, always as we are already fully aware, without success as no animal species can be accepted as an experimental model for any other species.
After describing in detail the ghastly procedures on dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, mice and guinea-pigs which she filmed and photographed as well as keeping extensive diaries, Wallis set about to demolish them scientifically. The reports, along with footage of film taken in the laboratories, have been aired extensively on British t.v., the radio and newspapers and are being investigated by the Home Office.
The following medical papers reveal the clinical invalidity of animal experiments designed to produce medicaments for human sufferers of arthritis. Despite the proof that they are scientifically unsound these experiments are being repeated at St Bartholomew's:
Despite all the evidence that the mass torture of animals cannot produce a solution to human ailments these degrading experiments continued throughout 1987, 1988 and 1989 through to the present day, because the "researchers" working on comfortable grants, promise to make an animal model "similar" to human arthritis, which has proved time and again to be impossible.
Recently a pharmacologist at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne pointed out:
"Benoxaprofen (Opren), a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent, was introduced in 1980 with the promotional claim (in journals including the British Medical Journal) that it... 'Has been shown, experimentally, to actually modify the arthritic disease process.' This claim was based on the observation that Benoxaprofen inhibited the development of adjuvant induced arthritis in the rat, but failed to mention that other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs had similar actions or that beneficial effects shown in rats have only a limited ability to predict efficacy in humans."
(M.D. Rawlins, British Medical Journal, Vol. 301, 1990, pages 729-733.)
Finally, an editorial in the doctors' journal The Lancet recently states:
"Animal and human cartilage may behave differently: Studies of cartilage protection by different non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have yielded inconsistent results: And there may be considerable variation within individual studies."
(The Lancet, Vol. 337, 1991, pages 769-770.)
As the distribution of ARSL commencing in November 1990 continued throughout 1991 it is significant to note that simultaneously ARSL argued against the prestigious Lancet, for on page 6 of ARSL is written:
"There is no choice but to work with animals whose bodily functions are similar to ours."
But, as has been revealed, medical evidence exposes that "similar" which means resembling, does not mean the "same", which means identical. ARSL thus attempts to perpetuate for its own ends the dangerous error of substituting a resemblance in place of an identical. An error which directly resulted in 573 people dying from the arthritis drugs Opren, Tanderil, Butazolidin at the cost of hundreds of thousands of animals' lives in the blatant scramble for profits for the vivisectors and their supporting industries.
(Further reference to Louise Wallis' undercover investigation is made in Chapters 12 Multiple Sclerosis and 20 Photos/Videos.)
Refer also to Chapter 17 Artificial Blood, High Blood Pressure.