How much do you know about VIVISECTION ?

Vivisection: from Latin vivus ("alive") + sectio ("cutting")

Vivisection is the practice of using live animals for experimentation. It is in fact a multi-billion dollar global industry and is deliberately hidden away from the public eye to avoid unwanted scrutiny. The numbers of animals used are enormous. For example, a small country like Australia uses approximately 7 million animals each year. Animal experimentation has been implicated in fraudulent medical research, inhumane teaching methods, as well as the unethical testing of drugs, weapons, household products and cosmetics.

Below you will find a list of links where you can learn more about the scientific and ethical reasons why vivisection should not be practiced, as well as the humane alternatives that exist for scientists, consumers, and also for students at all levels of education. If vivisection is a topic that you are unfamiliar with, please inform yourself by watching the video for the song "May The End Come Soon" and by exploring the links listed below.

May The End Come Soon

Song / Video runs for approximately three minutes. It can be viewed and downloaded, free of charge, from this link: "May The End Come Soon". Please note that the images are graphic and may distress some viewers.       Thank you to Mike Metzger for creating the video, and Andy Weigel for hosting it on his website.

 Vivisection:  USEFUL LINKS

About Animal Testing (UK): www.aboutanimaltesting.co.uk

Alternatives in Research Resource Centre (Australia): www.arrc.org.au

AltWeb (US): http://altweb.jhsph.edu

American Anti-Vivisection Society (US): www.aavs.org

Americans For Medical Advancement (US): www.curedisease.com

Animal Experiments (Australia): www.animalexperiments.info

Animal Research Takes Lives (New Zealand): www.health.org.nz 

Antidote Europe (EU): www.antidote-europe.org

Anti-vivisection Western Australia: www.avwa.com.au

Asia Pacific Alliance Against Xenotransplantation: www.arrc.org.au/apaax/index.html

AVAR (US): www.hsus.org/press_and_publications/press_releases/hsvma_011408.html

British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (UK): www.buav.org

Campaign Against Animals in Research Experiments (UK): www.caare.org.uk

Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research: www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/index.html

Campaign for Responsible Transplantation (US): www.crt-online.org

Canadians for the Advancement of Health Research (Canada): www.cah-research.com

Cancer Research Fraud: www.advancedhealthplan.com/cancerresearchfraud.html

Choose Cruelty Free Australia: www.choosecrueltyfree.org.au

Coalition Anti-Vivisection (France): http://cav.asso.fr/en

Coalition to Abolish Animal Testing (US): www.ohsukillsprimates.com

Cruelty-free product choices (US): www.idausa.org/facts/crueltyfree.html

Doctors Against Animal Experiments (Germany): www.aerzte-gegen-tierversuche.de/en/

Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine (UK): www.dlrm.org

Dissection alternatives for students (US): www.dissectionalternatives.org

Dr Hadwen Trust (UK): www.drhadwentrust.org.uk

Dr Steven Best (US): www.drstevebest.org/Essays/AnimalExperimentationAHarvest.htm

European Centre / Validation of Alternative Methods (EU): http://ecvam.jrc.ec.europa.eu

European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (EU): www.eceae.org

Europeans For Medical Progress (EU): www.sovereign-publications.com/curedisease.htm

European Resource Centre for Alternatives in Higher Education: www.eurca.org

Humane Awareness (Australia): www.humaneawareness.org.au

Humane Charities (Australia): www.aahr.org.au/humane_charities/index.php

Humane Charities (US): www.humaneseal.org

Humane Learning (Australia): www.humanelearning.info

Humane Research (Australia): www.humaneresearch.org.au

Humane Research Trust (UK): www.humaneresearch.org.uk

Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association (US): www.hsvma.org

Humane Student (US): www.humanestudent.org

International Advocates for Health Freedom: www.iahf.com

International Association Against Painful Experiments on Animals: www.iaapea.com

InterNICHE (Global Alternatives Database): www.interniche.org

Irish Anti-Vivisection Society (Ireland): www.irishantivivisection.org/home.html

Israeli Society for Abolition of Vivisection (Israel): www.isav.org.il

Italian Anti-Vivisection Society (Italy): www.novivisezione.org

Lega Anti Vivisezione (Italy): www.lav.it

Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research (UK): www.ldf.org.uk

Medical Research Modernization Committee (US): www.mrmcmed.org

Medical Advancement Without Animals (Australia): www.mawa-trust.org.au

National Anti-Vivisection Society (UK): www.navs.org.uk

National Anti-Vivisection Society (US): www.navs.org

New England Anti Vivisection Society (US): www.neavs.org

New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society (NZ): www.nzavs.org.nz

NORINA Alternatives Database (EU): http://oslovet.veths.no/dokument.aspx?dokument=80

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (US): www.pcrm.org

Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (US): www.psyeta.org

S.A.E.N.: www.all-creatures.org/saen

Safer Medicines Campaign (UK): www.curedisease.net

Students Against Animal Experimentation (Germany): www.tierrechte.de

Students for Ethical Science (UK): http://ouses.org.uk/index.html

The Truth About Vivisection (US): www.vivisectioninfo.org/index.html  

VITA Animal Rights Centre (Russia): www.vita.org.ru

Vivisection Information Network (UK): www.vivisectioninformation.com