...or more literally, "The cutting of the living".
also known as Animal Experimentation for those of you who don't know.
VERY VERY LONG RANT BELOW.
the money issue:
Personally I find it ridiculous... its also amusing how advocates for vivisection try to make pETA and ALF look like terrorists and cons who "stage pictures" of animals in torturous situations.
This is bullshit, I mean, get real people. Those who advocate vivsection are primarily rich motherfuckers who run billion dollar industries in cosmetics, pharmeceuticals and not to mention the "my university is better than your university" deal.
OF COURSE these people will do everything they can to keep vivisection alive! Without it, companies that run these experiments would be completely useless, stocks would plummet, and a lot of rich bastards would be out of luck.
not to mention the rather huge monkey-trade (predominant in cambodia), where many of the deals are done "under the table" in illegal trades where the so-called breeders poach wild animals and sell them with forged certificates to testing companies.
ALSO theres the wide range of domestic lab-animal breeders within the world, even in the US. Where class-B (class-B dealers of animals are certified to obtain animals through "random" means; class-A dealers are certified lab-animal breeders) dealers often take dogs and other animals from shelters and into labs--usually without the knowledge of the shelter operator.
and then there is the fact that by losing animal testing the economy would hit a MAJOR change as all facilities flushed out old animals and equipment and cashed in for new alternative experimentation supplies.
But what really kills me is that most people who support vivisection think that it helps people.
the truth is that many people die from medicines that were tested safe on animals...
even scientists admit that around half of the drugs tested on animals affect humans differently.
So why do we continue when there ARE MANY, MANY alternatives to testing, like artificial skin graphs, and computer simulations?
MONEY! this is a MONEY issue.
Capitalism is a dirty business, my furry friends.
The truth is that vivisection, although not ALL of it may be as cruel as the videos that PETA releases, is a money-driven industry that benefits rich CEOs and the capitalist scumbags of the world, while sucessfully fooling the public and devouring their tax dollars.
Not only their tax dollars are being spent, though...
ever drop a dime into one of those march of dimes or children's hospital charities?
guess where the money goes.
And more than often are the experiments completely irrevalent to "little joey with type 2 diabetes"
common pro-vivisection arguments:
1. IT HELPS SAVE PEOPLE'S LIVES!!!
answer: It has, yes, but we have come to the point where we have safe and reliable alternatives to using live animals. There is no other reason to continue other than to feed the corporate machine that is vivisection more money.
2. IF IT WASN'T FOR VIVISECTION, WE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD SO MANY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES!
answer: this is TRUE. However, like I said above--it is no longer nessicary for biomedical or experimental research due to artificial alternatives.
3. THE ANIMALS ARE TREATED NICELY, AND THERE IS NO REASON TO BE UPSET!
Even though not all lab-animals are festering away in an isolation tube, or laying in a pile of dung (which I'm sure many are), they are still bred and raised for this purpose, and the majority of them have never seen the sky or felt grass under their feet.
In the code of conduct for biomedical researchers, they are told to "pay no unessicary attention to animals, and interact with them only in a clinical fashion".
This is said to be so that the experiments are messed up by one of the scientists altering the mental state of the subject.
Also, there have multiple accounts of vivisectors laughing at or scrutinizing their subjects.
All in all, animals are not given love or affection, and are kept in small industrial cages where they live out their life in slow dismay.
4. ANIMALS CAN'T FEEL PAIN BECAUSE THEY LACK CONSCIOUSNESS!!
Honestly, I think all you furries would know enough to dissagree with this off the bat.
Its sort of ironic that because of animal experiments scientists have found that animals DO have consciousness of themselves, and therefore CAN feel pain.
5. IT DOESN'T AFFECT ME SO I DON'T CARE
actually, it does.
your tax dollars, at least here in lovely america, are funding this shit.
shouldn't you at least KNOW where your bucks are headed?
there you have it.
What's YOUR OPINION on vivisection?