Vivisection, Animal Experimentation and Animal Testing
Vivisection - What is Vivisection?
Vivisection - What is Vivisection?
Animal Experimentation FAQ
Animal Experimentation FAQ: Why do animal rights activists oppose animal experimentation? Isn’t there a law to protect animals in laboratories? Doesn’t the end justify the means?
NIH Stops Chimp Experiments
The U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) decided in December of 2011 to freeze funding for new research involving chimpanzees.
Vivisection Debate - Prof. Gary Francione and Prof. Dario Ringach Debate...
Vivisection Debate - Prof. Gary Francione and Prof. Dario Ringach Debate Vivisection
What Are “Cruelty-Free Products” and Where Can You Buy Them?
What are cruelty-free products and what makes them cruelty-free? The answers are not always clear, and cruelty-free products are not always vegan.
Does Classroom Dissection Deplete Species, Encourage Animal Cruelty?
From About.com's Environmental Issues site: Are the animals used in classroom dissection taken from the wild? If so, wouldn’t this be endangering their populations? Are there other environmental issues associated with classroom dissection?
Avon, Mary Kay and Estee Lauder No Longer Cruelty-Free; Resume Animal Testing
After years of being cruelty-free, Avon, Mary Kay and Estee Lauder began animal testing again in 2012 in order to sell their products in China, which requires animal testing.
National Anti-Vivisection Society
The National Anti-Vivisection Society is an organization that opposes the use of animals in research.
American Anti-Vivisection Society
AAVS works to end animal experimentation.
Alternatives to Dissection
Dissection alternatives from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
PCRM promotes non-animal research for ethical and scientific reasons.
Companies that Do/Don't Test on Animals
List of companies that do or don't test on animals, as assembled by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Health Charities That Do Not Fund Animal Experimentation
Yes, you can support medical research and health-related charities without supporting vivisection! List assembled by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Mark Twain on Vivisection
In 1899, Mark Twain wrote, "I believe I am not interested to know whether Vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't. To know that the results are profitable to the race would not remove my hostility to it. The pains which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity towards it . . ."