Malunggay
An Anti-vivisectionist Reply to pro-vivisectionists most common arguments, with a focus on Anti-vivisectionists Unmasked 1999 PDF Produced by Seriously Ill for Medical Research (SIMR).
Introduction
This article was written to show the most common arguments and frequently all out lies propagated by pro-vivisectionists, I also briefly look at some questions proposed to anti-vivisectionists. The PDF produced by Seriously Ill for Medical Research (SIMR) in 1999 entitled ‘anti-vivisectionists unmasked’ is a centre for this article, as it raises many of the pro-vivisectionist arguments.
Through this article I hope to show that vivisection is a false premise, a lottery, on which animals are used to develop and test medicines that then go onto human usage, often with disastrous effects. Vivisection is fatally flawed on many, many scientific and ethical levels, it is a dangerous and severely outdated supposed form of science (some would call it a pseudo-science), that exists for a small number of reasons (of which the main ones are analysed in this article), and has a limited, if any, human based medical value, especially in today’s society.
I do not call for the reform of vivisection, I call for the abolishment of it, the complete abolishment of such a system, and the proper funding for research into animal based drug development alternatives, many of which exist, and I am glad to say, are in use today.
Questions
If vivisection is so wrong why does it continue?
There is the acknowledgement that many modern medicines have been developed with the help of animal research is known within the anti-vivisection movement, I do not dispute that animals have been used in the development of modern medicines, but this does not mean that they contributed to the development of these medicines.
Animals are used in drug development for a few main reasons;
• Drug development can require animals to be
Introduction
This article was written to show the most common arguments and frequently all out lies propagated by pro-vivisectionists, I also briefly look at some questions proposed to anti-vivisectionists. The PDF produced by Seriously Ill for Medical Research (SIMR) in 1999 entitled ‘anti-vivisectionists unmasked’ is a centre for this article, as it raises many of the pro-vivisectionist arguments.
Through this article I hope to show that vivisection is a false premise, a lottery, on which animals are used to develop and test medicines that then go onto human usage, often with disastrous effects. Vivisection is fatally flawed on many, many scientific and ethical levels, it is a dangerous and severely outdated supposed form of science (some would call it a pseudo-science), that exists for a small number of reasons (of which the main ones are analysed in this article), and has a limited, if any, human based medical value, especially in today’s society.
I do not call for the reform of vivisection, I call for the abolishment of it, the complete abolishment of such a system, and the proper funding for research into animal based drug development alternatives, many of which exist, and I am glad to say, are in use today.
Questions
If vivisection is so wrong why does it continue?
There is the acknowledgement that many modern medicines have been developed with the help of animal research is known within the anti-vivisection movement, I do not dispute that animals have been used in the development of modern medicines, but this does not mean that they contributed to the development of these medicines.
Animals are used in drug development for a few main reasons;
• Drug development can require animals to be