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Animal experiments: the shocking truth (1)

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"Vivisection is the blackest of all the black crimes that man is at present committing against God and his fair creation. It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures."
Mahatma Gandhi

The fundamental flaw of animal-based research is that each species responds differently to drugs and chemicals, therefore results from animal tests are unreliable as a means of predicting likely effects in humans. Thus, animal experiments are unreliable, unethical, and unnecessary.

  • Photo 1: Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School: a pacemaker has been implanted into this labrador, to induce heart failure. After about five weeks the dogs’ hearts begin to fail; they suffer swelling abdomens, paws, loss of appetite, and crackles/fluid filled lungs. The results showed differences between breeds of dog, let alone the known species difference between dogs and humans.

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  • Photo 2: Mice huddle in their laboratory cage; the sides of the cage are smeared red with their blood. The ends of their tails have been cut off with scissors, possibly for blood sampling. Small animals are also routinely mutilated (e.g. cutting off toes, punching holes in ears) for identification purposes.

The brutal, violent world of animal experimentation is shrouded in secrecy. In this page we take you inside this secret world. All of the photographs were taken inside British laboratories by undercover Field Officers of the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS).

We appreciate that some of the images here are distressing - but that is the nature of animal experimentation.

Remember, everything you see here was licensed and sanctioned by your Government. Please join the NAVS campaign to end animal experiments, today.

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  • Photo 3: Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, London: This mouse is alive, but has suffered horrific injuries fighting with cage mates. Severe confinement in labs makes such injuries commonplace.

During some experiments, rats are kept isolated, in barren metabolism cages. The animals live on a wire grid floor, so that urine and excrement can be collected in a container below.

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