BULLETIN N°25 - August 2003

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Here, by permission of the author, is a short article written by Hans Ruesch, father of the Scientific Anti-Vivisection Movement. His first book on the subject, Slaughter of the Innocent, presented evidence, which has never been refuted, to prove that vivisection is scientific fraud. Ehe book which followed, The Naked Empress, was written to reveal the link between this false industry and the pharmaceutical industry (the latter often subsidized by obligatory national health system, and the former funded from public tax monies), in order to foist 'legal drugs' onto an unsuspecting public. As the pharmaceutical industry is the richest in the world, it would appear that this fraud is the most successful and most lucrative in the history of our civilization. In any case, both books, as soon as published, were excluded from the established book distribution networks. They nevertheless remain available. Address inquiries directly to us at speakeasy@wanadoo.fr
   
 
Any Dunce Can Cut Up Live Animals
   
by Hans Ruesch
 
  A dog is crucified in order to study the duration of the agony of Christ. A pregnant bitch is disemboweled to observe the maternal instinct in the throes of pain. Experimenters in an American university cause convulsions in dogs and cats to study their brain waves during the seizures, which gradually become more frequent and more severe until the animals are in a state of continual seizure that leads to death in three to five hours. The experimenters then supply several charts of the brain waves in question, but with no idea how they could be put to practical use.
 
  Another team of "scientists" puts 15,000 animals through fatal scaldings, then administers to half of them a liver extract that is already known to be useful in case of shock: As expected, the treated animals agonize longer than the others.
 
Beagles, well-known for their mild and affectionate natures, are tortured until they start attacking each other. The "scientists" responsible for this announce that they were "conducting a study of juvenile delinquency."
   
Exceptions? I wish they were.
 
Every day of the year, at the hands of white-robed individuals bent on getting recognition or a degree, or at least a lucrative job, millions of animals are slowly blinded by acids, poisoned, disemboweled, submitted to repeated shocks, frozen to be revived and refrozen, starved or left to die of thirst, in many cases after various glands have been entirely or partially extirpated or the spinal cord has been cut.
   
  The victims' reactions are then meticulously recorded, except during the long weekends, when the animals are left unattended to meditate about their sufferings, which may last weeks, months, years, before death puts an end to their ordeal - death being the only effective anesthesia most of the victims get to know.
   
  But often they are not left in peace even then: Brought back to life - miracle of modern science - they are subjected to ever-new series of tortures. Pain-crazed dogs have been seen devouring their own paws; convulsions have thrown cats against the walls of their cages until the creatures collapsed; monkeys have clawed and gnawed at their own bodies.
 
  But don't stop reading just yet - because the purpose of this is to show you how you can, and why you should, put a stop to all that.
   
  Though the majority of practicing physicians defend vivisection, most of them don't know what they are defending, having never set foot in a vivisection laboratory. Conversely, the great majority of vivisectors have never spent five minutes at a person's bedside, for the good reason that most of them decide to dedicate themselves to laboratory animals when they fail that most important medical examination, the one that would allow them to practice medicine on people. And many more take up "research" because that requires no formal studying. Any dunce can cut up live animals and report what he sees.
   
  But so far as cancer is concerned, it is obvious to anybody that an experimental cancer, one caused by grafting cancerous cells onto an animal, is entirely different from cancer that develops on its own in a human being. A spontaneous cancer has an intimate relationship to the organism that developed it, and probably to the mind of that organism as well, whereas cancerous cells implanted into another organism have no "natural' relationship whatsoever to that organism.
 
  Of course, very large financial means will continue to be poured forth to keep the lid tightly on. And those people will continue to wail that their opponents would rather see a baby die than a frog.
   
  But even the Pharoahs knew that to find out whether their food was poisoned, they had to try it on the cook, not on the cat. Since animals react differently from humans, every new product or method tried out on animals must be tried out again on humans, through careful clinical tests, before it can be considered safe. This rule knows no exceptions. Therefore tests on animals are not only dangerous because they may lead to wrong conclusions, but they also retard clinical investigation, which is the only valid kind.
   
  A little mongrel dog, whose hind-quarters were paralyzed as a result of an operation, had been removed from the operating table and left on the floor. He started dragging himself painfully toward a retriever that had been blinded a few days earlier for another experiment and was being kept under observation. Its eyes had begun to putrefy. The blind dog managed to pick itself up, and wag its tail. Only one person in that laboratory seemed to notice the scene, which prompted that person to write: "That pathetic gesture of mutual sympathy put the human race to shame.''
   
 
   
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