Word: vivisectionism
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A bill field by the New England Anti-Vivisection Society to prohibit such experiments will go to the State House for debate in coming weeks. If, as the committee recommended, the state rejects the bill, those opposing greyhound use in medical experiments said yesterday they will "take their case to...
The New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) introduced the legislation because it considers animal experiments which kill the animal inhumane and says that greyhounds can make good pets and therefore should not be used in research.
Television cameras were first permitted in American courts in Colorado in 1956, and are now allowed, with varying restrictions, in some 38 states. Debate continues about whether the public's right to know outweighs the intrusive and potentially disruptive impact of television coverage on a court proceeding and its...
Proponents of the bill say that most pound animals are pets, and that the lab life is too cruel Scientists respond that most of these animals are strays, and that the pound death they face--gassing--is much crueler than vivisection.
Some of the more extreme activists acknowledge that their ultimate goal is to ban all animal research. Aaron Medlock, executive director of the New England Anti-Vivisection League, says that "there are major discrepancies between results of tests animals and on humans and scientists have not figured it out. There...