Post by Tiggerwoos on Aug 23, 2006 15:42:16 GMT
Found this today and thought I'd share it. Just a small selection of the reasons vivisection doesn't work and the drugs and diseases.
An article to throw back at people that are pro- vivisection:
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VIVISECTION
CONCERNING PEOPLE
82 Vivisection has achieved great advances in medicine
Humans and other animals are physiologically different. Vivisection is misleading because one animal's reaction to a disease, drug or procedure can be radically different to another's (see 84).
One hundred years of animal experimentation have failed to provide any major breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer and heart disease -- two of our biggest killers, though both these diseases remain largely preventable.
Vaccinations developed through animal experiments have been shown to have had no effect on the incidence of diphtheria, smallpox, polio, TB, whooping cough and tetanus. At the time vaccination began these diseases were already on the decline due to improvements in water sanitation, hygiene and nutrition. Despite vaccination, they continued to decline at the same rate.
Blood transfusion was delayed 200 years by misleading animal experiments. Corneal transplants were delayed 90 years. We may never have had penicillin at all had it been tested on guinea pigs -- it kills them.
83 Medicine relies on vivisection
Medicine is hindered by vivisection (see 82, 84 and 94).
84 Vivisection is the only way to ensure a product is safe for humans
The following drugs were all passed safe in animal experiments with tragic consequences:
Eraldin -- Caused blindness, stomach troubles, joint pains and growths.
Opren -- 3,500 people suffered serious side effects including damage to skin, eyes, circulation, liver and kidneys. 70 people died.
Flosint -- Caused 7 deaths.
Osmosin -- 650 people had side-effects. 20 died.
Chloramphenicol -- Caused fatal blood disorders.
Thalidomide -- Caused about 10,000 birth defects worldwide.
Clioquinol -- Caused 30,000 cases of blindness and/or paralysis and thousands of deaths.
Conversely, many drugs which are beneficial to humans are dangerous or even fatal to animals:
Penicillin -- Antibiotic in humans but kills guinea pigs.
Digitalis -- A heart drug for humans but causes high blood pressure in dogs.
Chlorophorm -- Anaesthetic in humans but poisonous to dogs.
Morphine -- Calms humans and rats but causes manic excitement in cats and mice.
Aspirin -- Causes birth defects in rats, mice, monkeys, guinea pigs, cats and dogs, but not in humans.
85 The advancement of knowledge is more important that the welfare and lives of animals
Knowledge has given us many great things from the wheel to the printing press but it also gave us the thumbscrew and the nuclear bomb. It is only a power for good when it is driven by compassion and compassion forbids that we should cause the suffering and death of others for our own ends.
An article to throw back at people that are pro- vivisection:
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VIVISECTION
CONCERNING PEOPLE
82 Vivisection has achieved great advances in medicine
Humans and other animals are physiologically different. Vivisection is misleading because one animal's reaction to a disease, drug or procedure can be radically different to another's (see 84).
One hundred years of animal experimentation have failed to provide any major breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer and heart disease -- two of our biggest killers, though both these diseases remain largely preventable.
Vaccinations developed through animal experiments have been shown to have had no effect on the incidence of diphtheria, smallpox, polio, TB, whooping cough and tetanus. At the time vaccination began these diseases were already on the decline due to improvements in water sanitation, hygiene and nutrition. Despite vaccination, they continued to decline at the same rate.
Blood transfusion was delayed 200 years by misleading animal experiments. Corneal transplants were delayed 90 years. We may never have had penicillin at all had it been tested on guinea pigs -- it kills them.
83 Medicine relies on vivisection
Medicine is hindered by vivisection (see 82, 84 and 94).
84 Vivisection is the only way to ensure a product is safe for humans
The following drugs were all passed safe in animal experiments with tragic consequences:
Eraldin -- Caused blindness, stomach troubles, joint pains and growths.
Opren -- 3,500 people suffered serious side effects including damage to skin, eyes, circulation, liver and kidneys. 70 people died.
Flosint -- Caused 7 deaths.
Osmosin -- 650 people had side-effects. 20 died.
Chloramphenicol -- Caused fatal blood disorders.
Thalidomide -- Caused about 10,000 birth defects worldwide.
Clioquinol -- Caused 30,000 cases of blindness and/or paralysis and thousands of deaths.
Conversely, many drugs which are beneficial to humans are dangerous or even fatal to animals:
Penicillin -- Antibiotic in humans but kills guinea pigs.
Digitalis -- A heart drug for humans but causes high blood pressure in dogs.
Chlorophorm -- Anaesthetic in humans but poisonous to dogs.
Morphine -- Calms humans and rats but causes manic excitement in cats and mice.
Aspirin -- Causes birth defects in rats, mice, monkeys, guinea pigs, cats and dogs, but not in humans.
85 The advancement of knowledge is more important that the welfare and lives of animals
Knowledge has given us many great things from the wheel to the printing press but it also gave us the thumbscrew and the nuclear bomb. It is only a power for good when it is driven by compassion and compassion forbids that we should cause the suffering and death of others for our own ends.