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
"The sums that are being spent (on cancer research) are enormous: $600 million in the present financial year - and the fear of getting the disease universal.... One million Americans have it. Recently Dr. James Watson, who is listened to because he helped to discover the molecular structure of life's genetic material, derided the national cancer program as a fraud. Dr. Watson said that the government's newly created cancer research centers around the country are institutions that are 'starting out lousy and will stay lousy'."
Extract from an article by the NEA-London Economist News Service, titled "Is Cancer Research Worth Cost?" on the editorial page of The Galveston Daily News, March 26, 1975
"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further."
Mark Twain (1835-1910), author, lecturer, satirist and humorist
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