Vivisection



Vivisection, viv'i-sek'shan, n. [< L. vivus, alive, and sectio, sectionis, a cutting.] The dissection of, or otherwise experimenting on, a living animal, esp. for the purpose of ascertaining or demonstrating some fact in physiology or pathology. -Websters Dictionary

"Normally, animal experiments not only fail to contribute to the safety of medications, but they even have the opposite effect."

Prof. Dr. Kurt Fickentscher of the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Bonn, Germany, in Diagnosen, March 1980



"Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected."

John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), novelist, poet and essayist



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