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
"There are still people who feel that the rat will guide us to the perfect diet, me, I think it merely guides us to the garbage heap."
Dr. Franklin Bicknell, The English Complaint, Jan, 1956
"The arguments used to justify vivisection are those which could be used to justify any atrocity."
George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950), Irish Playwright and Critic awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938)
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